The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 20, 1949, Image 3
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C,
WOMAN'S WORLD
Hard Washing Will Weaken Fabrics
By Ertta Haley
G REAT PROGRESS has been
made in the field of fabrics
luring the last 10 and zO years,
rhis progress has gone hand in
aand with strides made in the
laundering of those materials.
If. however, you are still follow
ing ancient laundering methods
and wondering why clothes don’t
last, then take a good look at
your laundering habits. Are you
letting the clothes down in strong
soap solution and letting them
soak all night?
Do you run the washing machine
for a long period of time in an
effort to get them clean? Do you
rub collars and cuffs on the board
and wonder why they fray?
These are outmoded habits and
have no place in modem launder
ing methods. Take a vacation from
rough laundering methods, learn
a bit about the new rules, and see
how delightfully clean the clothes
will be with much less effort and
work. You’ll be saving on the cloth
ing budget, too.
Prolonged Soaking
Weakens Material
Contrary to the general belief
that the dirtier the clothes, the
longer they should be soaked, over
night soaking is not a good idea.
Prolonged soaking not only weak
ens the fibers but opens them and
lets the soil become more deeply
lodged. Even the most heavily
soiled clothes such as work shirts
and overalls covered with factory
grease or farm soil or youngsters’
dirty play clothes, should be
soaked for no longer than IS to
20 minutes.
If clothes are soaked in a sink
or a laundry tub, fill with kike-
warm water and add enough soap
to make two inches of suds. The
way to get the most good out
of soaking is to place them in an
follow approved methods .....
agitator type washer. The agitated
soak is a sort of pre-washing which
helps to make the regular washing
more effective on heavily soiled
garments. ,
Fill the washer as for regular
washing, but with lukewarm water.
With the agitator going, add one-
half the usual amount of soap.
When the suds have been worked
up, turn off the machine and put
the clothes in for soaking.
Separate Clothes
Into Groups
Anyone who has done home laun
dry realizes the dismay a colored
sock can cause in a wash load of
the towels and linens. For this
reason, separate the clothes into
different loads for washing.
Lightly soiled clothes and white
clothes are washed in the first tub.
Then come the less soiled fabrics
such as napkins, towels.
many of the clothes. White collars
do not become old and yellow look
ing if you dry them out-of-doors
week after week.
As for colored clothes, from
which stains cannot be removed
by bleaching, it’s wonderful how
sunshine works. Many of the stains
! are bleached by gentle sunlight.
| and colors take on a new, refreshed
: look.
If you are fortunate enough to
J be able to dry your clothes out
side, you’ll also appreciate the
' beneficial properties of the wind
i or breeze. You don’t have to shake
out clothes carefully as the breeze
will puff them out and get rid of
the wrinkles you would otherwise
have to iron out.
Save Ironing Time
By Proper Preparation
Remember the tight knots into
which women wound clothes to get
them ready for ironing? Experts
now tell us to lay clothes flat and
fold them as little as possible.
It’s not wise to dampen clothes
too heavily either for ironing if
you’re interested in time-saving
practices. In fact, if you can re
move clothing from the line in a
slightly damp state, they can be
folded neatly then ironed.
The men on the farm and the
children in the backyard seem
to get their clothes equally
soiled. To make regular wash
ing more effective on heavily
soiled garments, give them an
"agitated soak” first. The
washer is filled for regular
washing, but with lukewarm
water and one-half the usual
amount of soap is used. When
the soap has formed suds, the
machine is turned off and the
clothes put in for a brief
soaking.
Make up the third tub full of
clothing which is lightly colored
and slightly soiled.
From here you can go on to the
dark socks and heavily soiled
clothing.
If the water, during any of these
tubs, gets too dirty, change it.
No matter how long you run the
washing machine, clothes will re
main dirty looking if the water is
dirty.
Heavily soiled clothes, particular
ly, should be washed in a load by
themselves. With a good modern
washer, the time of the washing
process can be regulated to the
degree of soil. About 8-10 minutes
For all-around pleasure in
wearing and the fillip it gives
your costume, choose the small
hat. They were never more
charming than they are this
season with their youthful and
flattering ways. There’s the
great influence of the bonnet,
and more than a touch of the
newly revived cloche. But,
then, the pert little sailor is as
fresh and crisp looking as ever.
It’s versatile with gingham,
chambray, linen and may well
burst forth in pastels and bril
liants. Yes, the sailor justifies
its popularity with all-around
satisfactory service and smart
ness.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Self-Pity Can Destroy Lives
For laundering ease.
in medium hot water (120“) will
wash play and work clothes clean
with no rubbing and scrubbing.
Fresh Air, Sunshine
Benefit Materials
It’s surprising how much of the
stain sunshine will remove from
THE GARDEN SPOT
Newest Fruits Please Palate
.By Eldred E. Green.
BIG JUICY PLUMS, large sweet
cherries, golden apricots. No long
er are these fruits store items. You,
too. can grow these fine fruits in
your own garden.
Pioneering in the development of
new hardy fruits was the experi
ment station at Brookings, S. D.
Here Dr. Hanpen worked with the
wild fruits and interbred them with
hardy kinds from other parts of the
world. Other institutions and per
sons have since added to this and
now there are many excellent kinds
for the Uiddlewest. Most of these
new plants are just the right size
for the home garden.
Plums are always welcome, but
ithe old kinds that came from Europe
will not grow well much beyond
Pennsylvania, except in favorable
spots. The new American plums
have been developed from the wild
plum and do not grow into very
large trees. They can withstand low
temperatures and will grow in most
any situation.
Waneta is a medium size red
plum. Opmta has a red skin and
green flesh. Sapa is solid red,
skin and flesh. Hanska has redskin
with a bluish color, Bed Wing is
dark red. Monitor is bronzy red.
Golden Minnesota is a yellow.
Most of these will produce fruit
when only three or four feet tygh.
Some varieties, as Sapa, can be
grown in bush form. The plants are
very productive. Even if you can
grow the older kinds of prune-plums
these new ones will prove to be
highly desirable for eating, canning
or preserving, as well as early bear
ing.
Cherries have not been over
looked. The Hansen Bush Cherry is
a very large sweet form of the
western sand cherry that is hardy
and adaptable. The fruits are large
and produced abundantly on me
dium height bushes. It has been in
terbred with Asiatic plums to give
the cherry-plum hybrids. These are
large sweet cherry-like fruits on
small bushes. Oka has black fruits
and Compass has red ones.
Apricots have been created from
hardy Chinese and Manchurian
O NCE, when I was first married,
I went w’th my husband to
dine with some friends of his, a
married couple unknown to me un
til then, i
He had told me that the wife was
a brillant woman, but unlucky. She
had many gifts but she didn’t seem
able to succeed with any venture,
even in the great city where every
one we knew was either painting,
or singing, acting, dancing, or writ
ing—writing anything; essays, stor
ies, poems, advertisements, see
narios. Not everyone was success
ful then, but everyone confidently
expected to be, sooner or later,
and almost everyone was.
But not Olive. I knew her for
25 years after that first bridal din
ner and she never did anything ex
cept talk about her bad luck. She
played the piano delightfully; she
was one of the wittiest women I
ever knew, but somehow she got
small pleasure out of either gift,
and even socially she was always
left behind.
Thought Only of Self
Her trouble was that she could
think of nothing but herself, and
of what everyone else was thinking
of her. That everyone else might
possibly have something better to
think of never crossed her mind.
Olive was self-centered. Like all
self-centered women she was ab
normally sensitive and managed
to make anything and everything
that was said in her hearing im
mediately applicable to herself.
So at the first dinner, when we
were both young women, poor, am
bitious. adventurous, determined
that New York should give us the
plants to give several fine hardy
varieties. Superb is a deep orange
fruit. Early Golden is yellow and
ripens early in the season. Manchu
is orange color. All are self pol-
Unizing.
Plums and cherries need cross
pollination to insure a good set of
fruit so two or more varities should
be included in every planting.
These new fruits will increase the
value and variety of your garden.
In addition there are new early
bearing apples like the Anoka and
Lodi. Many older varities of apples
and pears may be obtained as
dwarfs to increase the value of
your garden.
. . played the piano delightfully . . .
opportunity it had given so many
others, Olive was obsessed with
trifles. She apologized for the din
ner napkins; she fluttered about
the shortage of forks, she inter
rupted the conversation, just as it
got under way, with nervous asides
to her husband and to the bewil
dered amateur waitress who had
been hired for the occasion. If a
guest hesitated one second in at
tacking his food, Olive’s eager
apologies were there.
“You don’t like mint sauce?
Oh, dear, dear. The lamb is cold.
Arthur—sorry to interrupt you,
dear, but this meat is stone cold.
I did want things to be nice. Every
thing in Mother’s house was so
perfect. You’ll think me quite un
civilized; I know there should be
candles for dinner, but this room
is so deplorably dark. Dreadful
apartment, but all we could get.”
Apologies Spoiled It
And so on and on. All through
the years Olive flustered herself
and everyone near her with her
fluttered pretentiousness. If one
met her downtown all the pleasure
of an unexpected encounter was
spoiled by apologies.
“This dreadful old hat. But what
can poor folk like us do? My dear,
I know it’s my turn for a party, but
poor Arthur missed his commission,
you know. I took my poor litl'e
play to Brady—he was very kind,
but he looked at my hands. I told
him dishwashing and playwriting
didn’t go very well together, and—
poor me, I began to cry. Well, of
course that made him impatient—”
Olive not only never did any
thing worth-while, but she some
how held Arthur back, too. He
was a clever writer, had a near
success or two. But then Olive
would want to invite all sorts of
notables to a celebration dinner,
and the dinner would be a dreary,
pretentious failure, and the Scotts
would be right back where they
started.
Meanwhile, simpler folk, much
less gifted men and women indeed,
were finding their feet profession
ally, quite unashamed of shabby
rooms and hospitality that involved
the services of all the guests, and
sometimes their contributions of
butter or salad oil or red apples
from the stand at the corner. Auto
matically they were migrating to
the picturesque old barns and farm
houses of Long Island and New
England, automatically they were
drawing to themselves the fame,
—modest or great,—the financial
comfort, the friends for which poor
Olive hungered all through her
days.
Only a year or two ago I saw
Arthur again, and all the time he
chattered the joyous nonsense that
had been bottled up in him 40 years
ago. His first book was a sucoess—
he was 64 when it was published—
and he is busy with another, and
everything about his life, clothes,
food, friendships, hospitality, talk,
has taken on the wonderful quality
we call ease.
Poor Olive had robbed him of
all that, and robbed herself, too,
because of that sense of personal
importance, or pride, or false val
ues.
Young wives, are happier when
they realize that the first thought
ought to be for the other person’s
comfort. Nobody minds mistakes,
shortages, haphazard domestic ar
rangement when all the world is
young and everyone is financially
in about the same boat. But every
one hates fussiness, apologies, and
the uncomfortable hostess whose
one thought is how to impress rath
er than please her guests, and who
reduces all of life’s problems to the
first person singular, making of
herself a trouble-center.
Animal Laws
Plague Solons
Dogs Hound People
Who Write Measures
CHICAGO.—The dogs are hound
ing the men and women who write
state laws.
Bird bills have brought out
pointed differences. Cats on the
prowl have caused considerable
caterwauling. Goats, too, have
butted into the proceedings.
Everything, you might say, loose
ly, wants to get into an act.
A bill introduced in the Arkan
sas legislature would have pro
vided a bounty for citizens who
killed untaxed dogs. The sponsor
said dogs were killing livestock.
The house killed the bill.
An Illinois proposal would make
the owner liable for damages if
his dog bit anybody who was
“peacefully conducting himself in
a place where he may lawfully be.”
Postmen, milkmen, and meter
readers were all for it. The leg
islators were told that letter car
riers were attacked by dogs 650
times last year. Also that the cost
of replacing a pair of postman's
pants is $14.75.
There is a similar measure in
Missouri. But it draws a fine line.
If the dog bit an invited guest, the
guest couldn’t sue.
The senate and house in New
Hampshire are trying to give
each other the bird. The senate
nominated the New Hampshire red
hen as the official state bird. The
house nominated the chickadee.
The coyote was named as the offi
cial animal of South Dakota. The
Great Dane has been proposed as
the official dog of Pennsylvania.
One-Story Home
Grows in Favor
Plan Well Suited
To Fanners' Needs
The one-story home with base
ment for the laundry storage pur
poses and the heating plant is grow
ing in popularity.
Highly suited as a farm home
because it eases housekeeping, its
popularity is demonstrated by the
number of ranch-type houses be
ing built today in both rural and
metropolitan areas.
The one-story and basement
house pictured here offers features
that justify the popularity of homes
of this type. Planned as a farm
home, it includes the conveniences
of modem design found in city
homes.
The narrow kitchen is accessible
to both the dining area at one end
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of the living room and to the dining
porch. Sink and storage shelves are
along the outside wall, with the
stove and additional storage area
on the inside wall. This arrange
ment provides numerous econo
mies.
The work room is adjacent to
the dining room porch but far
enough from the living and bed
rooms to confine disturbing noises.
The two bedrooms, each with two
exposures, contain ample closet
space and are close to the bath
room.
The garage is separated from the
house by a breezeway, which can
also serve as an outside porch.
The basement includes several
features considered essential to
comfortable living on a farm. It is
entered from the back porch, elim
inating this traffic from the living
area of the home.
The cold room is ample for
storage of glassed fruits, vegeta
bles and other farm produce.
Plenty of electrical outlets in this
room provide current for a food
freezing locker.
In one comer of the laundry is
a shower.
For Variety, Serve Birthday Pie
(See Recipes Below)
Birthday Ideas
Automatic Harvester
Another farm job is brought
closer to complete mechanization
by this antomatic field forage
harvester. Within a few minutes
the com harvesting unit can be
substituted for the hay picknp at
tached to the basic machine. With
hay unit, the machine automatic
ally picks up hay from the wind
row, chops and blows it into a
trailing wagon for removal to
mow or silo. With com attach
ment, the machine sweeps along
the row, cutting and chopping
com for silage.
'NYBODY CAN HAVE a blrth-
^ day cake, and usually does.
Maybe that’s be
cause no one
ever thinks of
having a birth
day pie. How
ever, as you can
see from the pic
ture, a birthday
pie is both at
tractive and de
licious, and is appropriate for
carrying birthday greetings.
Have you ever noticed how some
one’s birthday creeps up on you
sort of unexpectedly, too? You may
have planned a pie or just fruit and
cookies for dessert. These, too, can
be decorated to suit the occasion.
Then, again, if you are rushed
for time, there may be some simple
dessert which will take less time
than the layer cake and its elabor
ate topping. Look through the tips
I’m giving you today if you want
unusual ways to celebrate birth
days.
• • •
A GLAMOROUS birthday party
dessert may be swished out of pre
pared chocolate pudding, like this:
Chocolate Coconut Birthday Pie
1 package prepared chocolate
podding
S cups milk
H cop shredded coconut
1 baked 8-inch pie shell
2 egg whites
4 tablespoons sugar
Vi cup shredded coconnt
Prepare chocolate pudding as di-
1 rected on package with the milk.
I (Reduce milk to one and three
^ fourths cups if a thicker filling is
' desired.) Cool, stirring occasional-
| ly. Add one half cup coconut. Turn
into pie shell.
Beat egg whites until foamy
throughout. Add sugar, one table
spoon at a time, beating after each
addition until sugar is blended.
Then continue beating until mixture
stands in peaks. Pile lightly on top
of filling. Bake in a moderate (350°)
oven for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with
one-fourth cup coccnut and continue
baking five minutes longer, or un
til delicately browned.
Candles are easily arranged on
the pie if you simply melt a drop of
wax on the plate and stick the
candle in it. Another idea uses
marshmallows for candles. In this
case, candles must be small, of
course, to avoid top heaviness.
Here’s another idea for pie, if
you want to carry out the same
treatment suggested above for
candle arrangement. This is a light,
airy chiffon pie. butterscotch in
flavor:
'Butterscotch Chiffon Pie
(Makes one 9-inch pie)
1 baked, 9-inch pie shell
1 tablespoon plain, nnflavored
gelatin
14 enp water
3 eggs, separated
I enp brown sugar, firmly
packed
1 cup scalded milk
2 tablespocns butter
14 teaspoon salt
H teaspoon vanilla extract
14 cup granulated sugar
Soak gelatin in cold water for
five minutes. Beat egg yolks untif
thick and lemon colored. Gradually
Lice, Mange Top Pests
Of Those Hanning Swine
Two of the most common and
harmful pests on hogs are lice and
mange. If insects are permitted to
feed on hogs, the animals will have
stunted growth and be more sub
ject to disease, says the University
of Louisiana agriculture extension
division.
Farmers are reminded that by
controlling insects they increase
the value of pastures and feed and
thus increase their earnings.
LYNN SAYS:
Quick ways to Prepare
Dishes Given
For thin, crisp French tried
onions, soak one-fourth-inch thick
onion rings in milk for 15 minutes,
then dip in a mixture of two-thirds
cup of commeal and one-third cup
of flour to which salt and pepper
have been added. Fry in hot. deep
tat (375*) for two minutes.
Ready-cooked ham may be heated
with canned sweet potatoes on the
broiler rack for another quick de
licious meal
LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU
Broiled Chicken with Mushrooms
Mashed Potatoes Gresn Peas
Tossed Orange-Grapefruit Salad
Hot Biscuits Butter Honey
•Butterscotch Chiffon Pie
•Recipe Given
beat in brown sugar, then the milk.
Add butter and salt and cook in
top of double boiler until thickened.
Stir in gelatin. Cool; add vanilla.
Beat the egg whites until stiff; add
the granulated sugar gradually,
while continuing to beat until stiff.
Fold into cooked custard, then pour
into pie sheU. Decorate with
whipped cream, if desired.
• • •
ANOTHER EASY WAY to take
care of a birthday is to serve a
delirious bowl
of scoops of de
lightful, refresh
ing ice. This
may be bought
already made in
any flavor de
sired, or may be
made in your re
frigerator from
the following recipe:
Fruited Orange Ice
(Makes 1H quarts)
3 cups water
1 cup sugar
5 cups orange juice
V4 cup lemon juice
Grated qjnd of Vi orange
3 bananas, sliced
V4 cup maraschino cherries,
sliced
Make a svrup by cooking the
water and sugar; cool. Mix orange
and lemon juices; add grated
orange rind; add syrup and sweeten
to taste. Freeze until mushy. Add
bananas and cherries and continue
to freeze until totally frozen. To
serve place scoops in a large bowL
When serving a bowl of ice or
ice cream, carry out the birthday
theme with a
plate of special
cookies, each of
which has a
small candle in
serted through
the center. Nat
urally, the cook
ies should be un
usual as they
are really sub
stituting for the
cake. Here are
several good types from which to
choose:
London Bars
H cup sweet butter
4 tablespoons confectioners’
sugar
2 egg yolks
Vi cup flour
Apricot jam
Nut meringue
V4 cup blanched, shredded al
monds
Cream butter and sugar; add eg]
yolks and flour. Press dough one
eighth inch thick into a buttered ant
floured pan. Bake in a hot oven un
til light brown, about 10-12 min
utes. Remove from pan, _ spread
with apricot jam, cover with nu
meringue, sprinkle with the al
monds and return to the oven unti
almonds have browned. When cold
cut into strips, three inches loiq
and one inch wide.
Youngsters will love these new
cookie treats. Use your favorite
oatmeal cookie recipe, fold in one-
half cup of finely cut gum drops.
There's a real flavor surprise in
every bite.
Serve stew in a noodle ring, made
by packing cooked noodles into a
greased mold, then turning out on
a chop plate and filling the center
with cooked stew.
Dip thin caives-liver slices in
French dressing, then in bread
crumbs and saute quickly in but
ter. This is truly delicious 1
Simple Afternoon Dress
Planned to Slenderize
Afternoon Dress
II BEAUTIFULLY simple after-
“ noon dress for the larger
figure that’s carefully planned to
flatter and slenderize. Try a small
flower print and finish with un
usual novelty buttons. /
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