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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
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Impossible
Journey
By
SHIRLE¥ RAI
IT WAS the fifth morning in a row
* so Mrs. Laughton was not sur- |
prised. She slipped out of bed qui- |
etly, reached for a robe, and put it
Over her shoulders.
Before dawn, every morning of
that week, her four-year-ojd daugh-
ter had wakened
3 -Minute , wit *J e® nUe
. but insistent tugs
Fiction to tell her about
— the dream she’d
just, had. Had they been night- I
mares, Mrs. Laughton would have |
been eager to get up to comfort a
frightened child, but they were nev- |
er nightmares. They were always |
gay and fanciful dreams that made
the little girl’s small face glow with
wonder and delight.
So Mrs. Laughton, as on the other
mornings, took Ellen into the kitchen
and poured a glass of milk for each
of them.
With both small hands wrapped
around her glass, the little girl sat
on the edge of a too large chair
and with shining eyes, eagerly told
her dream.
««I DREAMED I was sleeping,
* Mommy, and that the North
Wind stopped right outside my win
dow and called my name. He said,
‘Ellen—Ellen—wake up and come
to the window. Then I’ll put you
on my shoulder and take you for
a ride with me.’ ”
Mrs. Laughton took a drink from
her glass of milk. This dream was
going to be very much like the oth
ers. Something or someone—once a
bluebird, once a fairy—she couldn’t
recall what the others were—came
to the window and offered to take
Ellen on an impossible journey.
Mrs. Laughton yawned. She would
liked to have put her daughter to
bed and ended the tale at once, but
the thought of Mr. Laughton and
his sure-to-be-bad disposition made
her ask patiently, "What did the
North Wind look like, dear?”
Ellen was enthusiastic.
"He was green," she declared im
portantly.
Mrs. Laughton thought to her
self, "She doesn’t know one color
from another."
The child continued. “He had
long pointy green shoes and long
green hair and a long green nose.”
The wide eyes and little blonde
head leaned forward and the small
voice became confidential. “He was
all green except for the buckles on
his shoes. They were silver and
shaped like stars and they spar
kled so bright that I had to blink
“We went way up high over the
houses and trees.”
my eyes as we went through the
air."
Mrs. Laughton yawned again. El
len didn’t notice.
“After I climbed onto his shoul
der.” she said, “we went way up
high over all the houses and trees.
We woke the leaves and they made
shivering noises whenever we
passed by. We stirred the dust
from the streets so they would be
clean for morning.
«‘DUT soon he said that he must
take me back home because
there were other towns he had to
visit before the night was over.
So,” (she sounded genuinely dis
appointed) “we came back to my
window. .He lifted me down from
his shoulder, said goodnight and
went away—way up in the sky.”
“That’s fine, dear—such a fine
dream,” she said, and added hast
ily, “Now let’s go back to bed.”
It was morning. Mr. Laughton
had left for the office a couple of
hours ago, and Ellen was playing
in the yard.
Mrs. Laughton made Ellen’s small
bed. She picked up a rag doll and
set it in a chair. She put the two
miniature bedroom slippers in their
place in the closet. She picked up
a rumpled nightie and started to
hang it away.
There was something in the pock
et—something heavy. Mrs. Laugh
ton put her hand inside and felt. It
was cold and hard.
She drew it out slowly and held it
in her hand for a long time. It was
a silver buckle in the shape of a star.
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Follow Directions for Baking Success
(See Recipes Below)
Let's Entertain
Who doesn’t like to entertain
when everything runs along as
smoothly as silk? The best way
to learn how to do this is to prac
tice a certain number of dishes
until you can make them just per
fectly, then learn how to put
everything together and invite
your friends.
Many families
have a standard
company menu
which they can
pull out of a
hat, so to speak.
They have
served the menu
several times so
mother knows just how to cook
it to perfection, and Dad and the
youngsters know how to set the
table and do the other little jobs
that help mother.
If you’re looking for just such
a menu, look over this suggestion
and see if it doesn’t have the in
gredients of successful entertain
ing. To me, it seems to have
enough “oomph” or super special
things about it to make it nice for
company, and yet it’s practical
enough to make for easy cooking.
Company Menu
Consomme Princesse
Leg of Lamb with Mint-Meringue
Pears
Browned Potatoes and Onions
Green Lima Beans
Asparagus Tip-Tomato Salad
Roquefort Dressing
Carrot-Raisin Bread Relishes
Orange Sherbet Cookies
Beverage
Consomme Princess is made
with canned or homemade con
somme and then just before serv
ing heated with small slivers of
white meat of chicken and fresh
green peas.
Leg of Lamb
5 or 6-pound leg of lamb
Salt and pepper
8 to 10 pear halves
2 egg whites
y 2 cup mint jelly
Do not have fell (thin, paper
like covering) removed from the
leg of lamb. Season with salt and
pepper. Place skin side down on
rack in an open roasting pan. In
sert meat thermometer so that
bulb reaches the
center of the
thick round of
the leg, making
sure the ther
mometer does
not rest on fat
or bone. Do not
add water. Do
not cover. Roast in a slow oven
(SOO” F.) until the meat ther
mometer registers ISO” F. Allow
LYNN SAYS:
Break the Ice: When guests
:ome over and you want to get
them into a conversational
frame of mind before dinner,
serve a '“dunking tray”—a
platter of tidbits with chilled
fruit or vegetable juice before
the meal begins.
Dunking Tray I: Tiny cod-
sh balls, whole, -cooked shrimp,
oysters and tiny sausages.
Serve with these sauces: cock
tail sauce (seasoned catsup or
chili sauce), or mustard cream
sauce. Surround the tray-with
pickles and olives, celery
hearts, pickle fans and carrot
strips.
Dunking Tray II: Sliced
roast beef, spread with mus
tard and rolled; lettuce rolls
(with mayonnaise); chicken
rolls; serve with relishes.
Dunking Tray III: Various
cheese spreads such as pimiento
cheese, seasoned cottage cheese,
sliced Swiss cheese, etc. Serve
banked with potato chips.
With dunking trays, indi
vidual service is eliminated.
Let the guests help themselves.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENUS
Meat Loaf with Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Fried Eggplant
Tossed Green Salad
Rolls Preserves
Open-faced Plum Pie
Beverage
30-35 minutes per pound for
roasting.
Serve with mint-meringue pears
made as follows: Beat egg whites
until stiff. Add mint jelly and
continue beating until well mixed.
Place meringue on cut surface of
each pear half and place in oven
or broiler just long enough for
the meringue to become lightly
browned. Serve hot.
Carrot-Raisin Bread
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup raw carrots, grated
y 2 cup raisins
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1/3 cup shortening
% teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
4% teaspoons baking powder
Sift flour once, add baking pow
der and salt. Sift again. Cream
shortening, add sugar gradually
and continue beating until light
and fluffy. Add egg and beat well,
then add carrots. Pour in flour
mixture and raisins and beat just
long enough to moisten dry in
gredients. Turn into a greased
loaf pan and bake in a moderate
(350° F.) oven for about 1 hour.
This is also a lovely bread for
sandwiches.
If you want to vary the com
pany menu occasionally, change
the salad and dessert, using these
as alternates:
Cranberry Perfection Sa’ad
(Serves 6)
1 tablespoon unflavored
gelatine
% cup hot water
% cup cold water
2 cups cranberry juice
% teaspoon salt
y 2 cup finely shredded
cabbage
1 cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons chopped green
pepper
Soften gelatine in cold water
and dissolve in hot water. Pour
over cranberry juice in a bowl,
add salt and beqt with rotary
beater until smooth. Cool. When
mixture begins to thicken, add
vegetables. Turn into individual
molds which have been rinsed in
cold water. Chill until firm. When
firm, unmold on desired greens
and serve with sour cream dress
ing^
Orange-Banana Ice Box Cake
(Serves 6)
2 tablespoons unflavored
gelatin
y 2 cup cold water
8 bananas
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 y 2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons grated orange
rind
y 2 teaspoon salt
2 cups heavy cream or
evaporated milk
1 dozen lady fingers
Soften gelatin in cold water
and dissolve over hot water Mash
bananas, add fruit juices, sugar
and grated rind. Beat dissolved
gelatin into fruit mixture. Fold
in whipped cream. Line sides of
mold with halved lady fingers and
fill half-full with fruit mixture.
Cover the layer with halved lady
fingers, then fill mold almost to
the top with fruit mixture and
cover top with lady fingers. Chill.
When firm, unmold and garnish
top with orange sections and
sliced bananas and whipped
cream.
Orange sections may also be
used to garnish sides of mold be
fore pouring in fruit mixture, if
desired. Fruit sauce may be used
for serving in place of whipped
cream.
Esteron 44 Results
In Wild Onion Curbs
Wild Garlic also Found
Vulnerable to Solution
»
Wild garlic and wild onion long
have been two of the most trouble
some weeds in southern lawns, pas
tures and certified grass and grain
seed production fields. **-.
As lawn weeds, these plants give
the lawn an uneven, ragged appear
ance and produce a very disagree
able finion odor when mowed. In
pastures, dairy cattle feeding on
these plants produce milk with an
off flavor which is of great concern
to dairymen in several states. Seed
production has been limited by the
presence of wild onions in many
fields because of potential contam
ination.
During the past three years many
experiments have been made with
varied forms of 2, 4-D to control
wild garlic and wild onion. Tests
with sodium salt of 2, 4-D were un
successful. Esteron 44 and the
amine liquid salt formations, how
ever, gave good control when used
at the rate of three to four pounds
of 2, 4-D acid equivalent per acre.
Apparently the amount, of water
used makes little difference in the
results obtained. As many as 125
gallons per acre and a few as five
gallons per acre were applied with
equal success.
For pasture work, observers
agree that Esteron 44 may be some
what more effective than the amine
salts, but because of the possible
danger from volatility of the esters
of 2, 4-D, it is suggested that the
amine liquid salt be used where
susceptible plants grow in immedi
ately adjacent areas. (Lawns, for
example, with adjacent flowers
and shrubs).
Moisture Conservation
Helps With Wheat Crop
A 30-acre field that had produced
little during the last few years,
even with favorable moisture con
ditions, produced a good wheat
crop, according to the Kansas state
college extension service.
“A combination of things made
the land productive again,” a con
servation district cooperator said.
“Use of sweet clover, seeded in the
spring of 1946, for green manure
and terracing, and contour farming
for moisture conservation were im
portant.”
The land, he explained, was badly
eroded. The soil was thin, dense and
hard to work. It had not produced
a decent crop in the previous six
years and was practically idle land.
Gullies were plowed shut after
the terraces were built, so that the
whole field could be contour farmed.
In addition, grass waterways were
developed and more terraces plan
ned.
New Hay Chopper
This -combination hay chopper
and ensilage cutter, which can
be operated by one man, has
been introduced by the New
Holland Machine company. The
new machine feeds, cuts to de
sired length and blows corn, hay
or other crops to mow or silo in
one operation. Cutting in lengths
ranging from 3-18” to 1%”, the
chopper cutter can handle up to
20 tons of silage an hour.
Bathtub Fairly Recent
Innovation in America
Although many Americans con
sider the daily bath essential to
good health, most of their prede
cessors of a century ago never saw,
much less bathed in, a bathtub in
the home. For pre-Civil War
Americans, bathing was a luxury
indulged in a but along-side the
home. The White House got its
first bathtub during Lincoln’t term.
The first all-iron tub was installed
in New York City in 1870.
By INEZ GERHARD
CLAUDETTE COLBERT’S new
picture “Family Honeymoon,” (Un
iversal-International) is another of
those gay comedies in which she
specializes. Fred MacMurray is
the bridegroom with whom she em
barks on a honeymoon, taking her
three children along. The Colbert-
MacMurray combination works
beautifully, as always but the real
hilarity is provided by the child
ren, Jimmy Hunt and Peter Miles
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
are exceptional: little Gigi Per-
reau is enchanting. Beautiful, tal
ented, completely natural, she may
well develop into our next big child
star. The comedy, situations in
“Family Honeymoon” are not sub
tle, but the cast is excellent and
the picture is packed with laughs
from beginning to end.
Further notes on Gigi Perreau.
Samuel Goldwyn has lifted the
first six-month option, has her under
contract for seven years. Featured
in “Enchantment,” currently ap
pearing in “Roseanna McCoy,” she
will be starred in her next picture.
Lex Barker, the new “Tar-
zan,” finds that he is expected
to set a good example for his
friend’s children. "People like
Van and Evie Johnson ask me
to show their kids how I eat
spinach, or cereal, or some
thing else the kids don’t like,”
he complains. “It’s rongh on
my waistline, and besides, I
don’t like some of the staff
my friends ask me to popular
ize.”
There probably never has been a
more extensive tour of Florida than
the one being made by the CBS
“Hint Hunt,” which began Feb. 14
and continues through April 1.
Chuck Acree awards approximately
$2,000 worth of prizes each day. In
addition to the broadcast there is
always a two-hour warm-up. "Hint
Hunt” is directed by Georgene
O’Donnell, one of the live women
network producers.
If you’re in New York and want
to see Arthur Godfrey’s “Talent
Scouts” crew off-stage, go to the
Rockefeller Center Skating Rink.
They’ve hired it for every Friday
night from 11 P. M. to 1 A. M. till
spring.
Raymond VJalburn, who played
Betty Hutton’s father some years
ago in “And the Angels Sing,” has
joined the cast of Paramount’s
“Red, Hot and Blue.” Again he ap
pears with Betty; this time, as a
playboy, he has a blind date with
her I
“The Pride of the Yankees”
will be re-released by RKO in
April, to coincide with the late
Lon Gehrig’s last professional
appearance on the baseball dia
mond. Starring Gary Cooper
and Teresa Wright, it features
many baseball giants, includ
ing the late Babe Ruth, Bill
Dickey, Bob Meusel and Mark
Koenigh. A Samuel Goldwyn
production, it was voted one of
the 10 best of its year.
Danny, the black ram of “So
Dear to My Heart,” refused all
one afternoon to obey the script
and butt a careless stock judge.
Then, the instant he was out of
camera range, he butted anybody
who turned a back to him.
Ted Donaldson, John Litel and
Ann Doran wjll resume their famil
iar roles of son, father and mother
in “Rusty’s Birthday,” eighth in
Columbia’s series dealing with the
adventures of a boy and his dog.
Seymour Friedman will direct.
ODDS AND ENDS . . . When
MGM told Mario Lanza, the opera
singer, that he was to portray a
piano ifaover in his first picture,
“Midnight Kiss,” he felt right at
home—that’s what he worked at
when he was discovered as a sing
er .. . Sounds as if Joan Crawfor4
is serious about wanting to do a
musical; she has enrolled at War
ner’s for lessons in tap, adagio anfl
exhibition ballroom dancing . . .
Patricia Neal wears a ring set with
a huge opal, for good luck, defying
the old superstition. ^
InterndiVonAi' Uniform
iMililFl Sunda y School I.esnons FH
By 08. KLKHEIH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Mark 4: Luke 15:11-24.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew
13:10-17.
WildOatsHarvest
Lesson for March 6, 1949
Dr. Foreman
A LL RELIGIOUS teachers of Je
sus’ time used parables. Bui
the great difference between Jesus’
parables and those of his contempo
raries, a s Rabbi
Klausner says, is
that his were re-
membered and
theirs were not.
People will remem
ber a story who
cannot take in a lec
ture. Jesus almost
never told "wonder-
tales.” His para
bles are not in the
least like Grimm’s
fairy tales or Alice in Wonderland.
Mostly they are about simple ordi
nary happenings, and practically al
ways about living people or things.
If you said “Kingdom of God” to
the average religious person of Je
sus’ time, he would have replied,
“Oh, yes. that wonderful time! The
time when these Roman soldiers
will be blasted off the earth by the
terrible breath, of God, the time
when every grape will yield barrels
of wine and a single grain of wheat
can be ground into bushels of flour
—the Miracle Age!” The Kingdom
of God as Jesus proclaimed it —
God's Ideal World — was some
thing quite different from that. Je
sus illustrated it not with fanciful
wild pictures, but with stories from
real life, from the field or the farm
house.
The Kingdom of God is a king
dom of law, not of happen-so or
of magic wands. Jesus was
fond of comparing God’s King
dom to growing plants. Every
plant is a miracle, it is evidence
of God’s creative power; but
plants do not grow overnight,
they grow by the laws which the
creator made in them.
Wild Sowing
A S WE SAW last week, the most
important feature of the Ideal
World, or of any world, is the qual
ity of the people in it. So most of
Jesus' parables were about people,
one of the most famous being this
one of^the “prodigal son.” (“Prod
igal” of course d®es not mean wick
ed or repentant, but wasteful, reck
less with money or other things.)
You could find many faults in that
young man. One of them — the
fault that nearly killed him — was
that if he had a calendar he never
looked at it. If you take a good
look at a calendar you will always
notice that there is another day af
ter this one—another month, anoth
er year. But the prodigal never
thinks about tomorrow, only about
today. He sows his wild oats be
cause be has fun doing it. He can
say “So what?” Ifast enough but he
has never asked the question, "—
and then what?” Childish, isn’t it?
Some people even argue that
It is a good thing to sow wild
oats, on the theory that the
prodigal gets it out of his sys
tem and is afterwards a better
man.
Nonsense! Is it better for your
education to spend several years
learning things wrong? Is it bet
ter for a garden to let it grow up
in weeds for the first three weeks?
Is it better for a man's health to
spend his childhood years on a sick
bed? That’s no more silly than to
say that a man is morally better
for having been immoral for a while
first.
• v *
Prodigal Nation
I T HAS EVEN been said that we
have a prodigal-son civilization.
Our generation is pretty busy sow
ing wild oats. We waste the nat
ural resources of the earth. Drink
ing has become encouraged by law
and made glamorous by the movies.
We spend more on liquor than on
schools. More money is spent on a
single day’s horse-racing at a big
track than a whole state or prov
ince spends on education in a year.
The ties of marriage have grown
so weak, especially outside the
Christian church, that it has not
been long since one American city
was boasting that its marriage rate
nad “caught up with” its divorce
rate!
• * •
Wild Harvest
T HE PRODIGAL son in' Jesus’
story went home—but he had to
reap his wild harvest first. The
modem prodigal, whether individ
ual or nation, seems to misunder
stand Jesus’ meaning. If God is
thought of at all, he is pictured as
a benevolent Being who after all
doesn’t mind our enjoying our little
fiing. “He will forgive,” said Vol
taire, “that’s his business.” That
is a total misunderstanding of God.
(Copyright by the International Coun
cil of Religious Education on behalf of
40 Protestant denominaUons. Released
by WNU Features.)
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j A General Quiz
The Questions ,
1. How far is the sun from the
earth?
2. Governor Dewey polled over
22,600,000 votes in the presidential
election of 1944. How many did he
rqcenv.e in 1948?
3. Is the peanut a nut or a
vegetable?
4. On what Pacific island did
the mutineers of the “Bounty”
settle?
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2. Over 21,383,000.
3. A vegetable belonging to the
same family as peas and beans.
4. Pitcairn island.
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