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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Summer Fashions Offer Style Diversity By Ertta Haley S UMMER FASHIONS are univer sally appealing. They have the crisp and fresh look, and there’s something for everybody’s taste and budget. If you like the fragile and femi nine clothes, there's a wealth of sheer materials such as nylons and tissue cottons and rayons from which to choose. For those who prefer trim and tailored lines, there are the be loved classics with just enough of the new fashion details to make them look interesting. The silky gabardines in wool and rayon as well as the sheer woolens all vie for honors in this class. Fabric Choice Is Unlimited Most of the new collections of summer clothes offer a wonderful ■ wealth of fabrics. There are the always popular cottons, but you’ll hardly recognize them from their | intricate weaves, color combina- tions and treatments. In! place of the usual prints, which are i still available, it you want them, I you’ll find a beeutiful array of plaids, checks and colorful stripes. In the print line, be it cotton or rayon, the print which seems to be holding sway is the border print. Linens are extremely popular and well used. You'll have no dif- Three-Piece Ensemble Jacket dresses are popular ..... ficulty finding the softest of pastels to fit your coloring; and, for those of you who feel that prints are the thing for summer, there are numerous vat-dyed butcher linens. Pure silk and silk shantung share honors with the other materials because they drape so softly and lend themselves to the cool look. Interest in Necklines Highly Favored Whether the dress be casual or formal, you’ll see much neckline in terest. These range from the large and flattering shawl collars to the deep dipping slashed neckline. Shawl collars are face-framing and lovely if you’re the tall drama tic type who needs some horizontal line at the shoulders to balance the figure. Many of these collars are used in two different ways: low to bare the shoulders, or high to cover them. Most of the sundresses are strap less this season, but they do come with ties that are removable. The bodice is boned for security. An other feature which most of us ap preciate in the sundress is the fact that many of the moderate and wjW Among the fashion scoops of the season is this three-piece ensemble. Made up on com panion color chambray, this grey blouse features the latest rolled dressmaker collar and dolman sleeves. Companioned to the blouse is the blue, grey and shrimp-toned chambray skirt. A shrimp-tone cummer bund accents a tiny waist. A black, cartwheel straw hat and shortie black gloves add to the costume to make it a delight ful ensemble. slightly high priced ones come with a brief jacket. These have a small Peter Pan collar and three-quarter Pull skirts come in for honors. fitted sleeves. If you purchase one of these in a lovely pure silk print, it will serve two occasions beautiful ly. Full Skirts Are Popular Many of the warm weather fash ions sport full skirts. These are not THE GARDEN SPOT What's Home Without a Lawn? .By Eldred E. Green. WHAT WOULD your home look like without a lawn? It would be a pretty dismal looking place. Because lawns are so common we pay little attention to them. Nature has pro vided many kinds of grass and some will grow in most any spot. With little thought and care the vide a fine, green, living setting for home and garden. A new lawn should be treated ex actly like a garden. The soil should be deeply turned and finely pulver- grass can be encouraged to pro- ized on top. Fertilizer and humus should be added if the soil is clay or sandy. The grass should be sown evenly and the surface kept moist until the plants are well started. Grass grows only in cool weather, so the laws should be taken care of early. Use seed that is good for your situation. Kentucky Blue grass is the best over most of the country and under most conditions. How ever, it will not grow in heavy shade. Here some other grass is necessary, such as Canada Blue grass or Che wings Fescue. In all grass seed mixtures there will be other grasses that come up rapidly and form a protection while the slower kinds get started. Red top and rye grass are the ones chief ly used. Stare laws require the analysis of grass seed to be printed on the package. The greater the percen tage of Kentucky Blue, Canada Blue or Chewings Fescue the better the seed. Cheap mixtures will have less of these desirable grasses and more of the less expensive. Lawns are composed of plants and need the same care that you would give to plants in the garaen. Weeds must be kept out. This is easy now with the new kinds of sprays con taining 2-4D that kills weeds but does not bother grass. Use these exactly as directed. Plant food will be needed. This is best given in the same way that you feed your gar den. Use a good balanced fertilizer. Chemicals containing only one ele ment may stimulate the grass but the growth will not be balanced and the plant may suffer later. Cutting the lawn is not a hard task. Set the mower so that an inch and a half of grass is left. The clip pings should be left to fall on the ground. Keep the mower sharp and well oiled. A light cutting every week or two is far better than a heavy cutting once in a great while. Occasionally grass will become too long and then the clippings should be removed if they are matting and causing a smothering of the grass. Rolling may be necessary if your soil is subjected to thawing and freezing in thf spring. The roller should be heavy enough to press the surface of the soil smooth without packing it down. Generally the steel water-weight ones are more easily adapted to the soil conditions. The rolling pushes the grass back into contact with the soil so that the roots can take hold. Frost action loosens the plants from the soil. Good lawns are necessary. Roll ing, fertilizing and cutting are little trouble. Weeds are gone with a spray. Select the right grass and you will have a good lawn with little effort only flared as they were last year, but they are also gored, flowing neatly from a snug hip line. Some have unpressed pleats; others have a flounce, a rather deep one, to give them more fullness; and still others are elaborately draped. There is little change in skirt length from spring fashions. The approved length remains at 12 inch es from the floor. Even the tailored types of dress es show a gentle flare or a sugges tion of fullness. It’s only in the suits that you have what can be called a really slim skirt line. Trend Toward Femininity Still Making Strides The feminine influences which have been observed during winter and spring are bound to show up even more for summer fashions and there’s nothing in the fashion spot light which would contradict this trend. The camisole effect is new and very womanly looking. It’s featured in vestees and on the tops of back less dresses. Equally feminine is the use of embroidery trim on pastel dresses of cotton and linen, or the tiny tie belts or the high- busted Empire silhouette. KATHLEEN NORRfs Choose your handbag to match or contrast your foot wear, according to your cos tume’s demands. The polished leathers are very popular la the tailored type of handbag. They’re handsome indeed for many of the season’s favorite fabrics. Thinner, smooth leath ers and suede finishes are en joying great popularity, the latter being particularly popu lar in light gray shades. Patents, perennial spring and summer favorites, are much in demand, especially if the foot wear is glistening patent. Don't Mix Love, Money too Well ■pVA CARPENTER of Syracuse "is going to be married in June, and she writes to ask me what financial adjustment a wife has a right to demand, be cause, as she says, she has always hated being imposed upon, and she wants thing- understood. Barry, her young man, appears to be casual and cheerful about these matters, and assures her that with his good steady salary, pros pect of promotion, with his com fortable house free of encumber- ances and with the small but sure income both he and Eva derive from wartime investments, “every thing will be fine.” Barry’s mother less small daughter, Meg., will live with them, but her school and clothing expenses are paid by her mother’s mother. “I made out a budget,” says Eva’s letter. "Barry laughs at this, but I have been a financial mana ger of a small sanitarium for some years and know how to handle such affairs. My idea is that just so much shall be allocated to table, telephone, cleaner and so on; just so much go to Barry for taxes, car maintenance, lunches, club and so on, and the residue be di vided on an equal basis. Unless a wife is to be an unpaid servant, as my mother was for 25 years, she surely has a right to her share. Knowing your opinion of the im portance of a money agreement in marriage I want to ask you two questions. What, out of an income of about $600 a month, should be my share, and should I ask Barry to put our agreement into writing?” Serious Question Eva, I say in reply, you are quite right in quoting me as saying that the money question is a most serious one, in marriage, and that if it is settled to the satisfaction of both parties, other problems are apt to fall into line. 8 ^I hate made out a budget . . . ” But that is not to say that I be lieve a woman of 31, marrying a man 10 years her senior, should enter upon matrimony in this brisk businesslike mood. No wonder it amuses Barry, who has already had some experiences of the way domestic expenses go. Your staid, maidenly budget will be blown sky-high when the guest room bathroom overflows onto the dining-room ceiling; when the den tist’s bill comes in just double your expectations; when your brother Tom needs another loan; when your cleaner-by-the-hour slips on the cake of soap Meg didn’t pick up and sues you for $600; when your mother is taken suddenly ill and you have to fly to Santa Barbara. Have All Advantages You are a responsible person; Barry is successful, industrious, thrifty, reliable. What more do you want. Certainly not budgets, before you are even married, and a bom bardment of such words as alloca tion, residue and basis. Barry wants confidence from you, and unless you feel an affectionate trust in him, don’t marry him at all. With the assets you mention, you are having much more than an average start, and your difficulty, as I see it, is going to be the loosening of all your pre-arranged lists, bud gets, restrictions, rather than the tightening of your rules for Bar ry’s improvement No wife is more annoying than the watching, suspicious woman who questions every move and eyes the spending of every penny. The old phrase “an unpaid servant In the house” has been in use for generations, I remember hearing it in my childhood. But it doesn’t apply now. Now, with the modern i science doing all it can in heating, cooking, lighting, canning, washing, a woman moves with great ease among miraculously efficient ma chines. In a sense she is a servant in the house. But not unpaid. She is the most richly-paid woman in the world; she is paid in love and grat itude. She is paid whenever she sees the children bright and good at the supper table, or when a tired man comes home to what to him is the loveliest spot in the world. Solitary lives know nothing of the ecstasy of richness, but the honest wife and mother knows. Certainly she wants to feel sure of her husband’s understanding of her household and her personal needs. But Eva will make a fatal mistake if she starts into matri mony holding firmly, in her newly- ringed hand, that signed document that gives her just so much legal tender every month. In California, we recently had a case in which the bride’s father in sisted upon full divorce settlements, signed, sealed and delivered. The groom was criticized because he treated the whole matter as a sort of joke, but granting that he wanted to marry the girl under these extraordinary circumstances, I don’t know what else he could have done. If he had been a wiser and older man he would have with drawn from the marriage. Eva, if you insist upon this iron- bound document as a preliminary to putting your hand in Barry’s then I suggest that Barry look into this pre-matrimonial divorce idea and perhaps have another docu ment in his own hand. Guided Bomb 'Ready Soon' Air Materiel Chief Fixes Year Deadline WASHINGTON, D. C.—The chief of the air materiel command has predicted that the air force would have ready for operational use with in a year a 12,000 pound bomb that can be guided all the way to the target. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, head of the air materiel command, also said: 1. United States aircraft engi neers and manufacturers have the know how to produce faster than sound combat planes now. But he said the air force planned to wait until at least three more experi mental rhodels similar to the super sonic X-l rocket plane had been tested. The X-l-A, being built now, is de signed to fly 1,700 miles an hour. Sound speed at sea level is about 760 miles an hour. The X-l has been flown many times at speeds “several hundred” miles an hour faster than sound. 2. The conventional machine guns on fighter planes will be replaced within a “relatively short” time with rocket missiles having a built- in radar homing device. This device will guide the missiles to an enemy bomber regardless of its evasive action. These rockets, McNarney said, will be launched several miles from an enemy bomber, will track it down at supersonic speed and ex plode within lethal range by means of a proximity fuse. 3. American research engineers have made "great progress” re cently toward development of de vices to guide missiles with speeds up to 700 miles an hour and ranges of 5,000 miles. But "pinpoint ac curacy” hasn’t yet been reached, McNarney said, and “push button” warfare with such guided missiles “is still in the rather distant future.” ************ *^^j| 1 HOUSEHOLD SCRIPTURE: Mark 14:32-52; Luka 22:39-54. DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew 6:1-8. IDliMOS ## ’ ; Prayer in Pain Lesson for May 29, 1949 •pHE SHADOW over Gethsemane is deep. We can scarcely see the tortured figure under the moon lit olive trees. If Jesus’ closest friends, in that hour, were strang ers to his soul, we cannot dare to pen etrate all the sec rets of that fateful hour. Yet while we cannot know all, w e can know enough; enough to support us in our own time of dark- £) r . Foreman ness and of pain. Mark uses very strong language to describe the state of Jesus’ mind in Gethsemane. The two Greek words he uses, translated in the King James version "sore amazed” and “very heavy,” are translated by the Revised Stanard Version, “greatly distressed and troubled;” by Goodspeed, “distress and dread;” by Moffatt, “appalled and agitated” As our hymn says, “We know not how, we can not tell What pains He had to bear.” Still, we do know of some of the burdens which weighed so terribly on Jesus’ mind and heart that night • • » Power of Darkness O NE THING that must have troubled our Lord was lack of sympathy. Peter, James and John were comfortably asleep, evidently without the slightest notion of what he was suffering. But there was worse than lack of sympathy, some where in the dark city one of Jesus’ supposed friends, the man called Judas, was even then slink ing through the alleys with murder in his heart. Jesus well knew what was In store for him. He knew the San hedrin would call him a blas phemer, he knew what the Romans would do with him, once they got their hands on him. Worse than this must have been the tragic sense of failure. “I would, but ye would not,” he had said in tears to this very city: a city full of enemies who should have been his friends, of unbelievers who should have believed, a city be loved, but which had nothing for him but thorns and a cross. All this was on Jesus' heart that night—and as many Christians be lieve, far more. One of the most profound Christian thinkers has suggested that the heaviest, most painful shadow on Jesus’ white soul was the sense of guilt, not his own but for the sins of the world, * • • Blood and the Angel S O JESUS PRAYED. Even in the cool spring night his forehead was covered with sweat, falling to the rocky ground like drippling blood. Never rose prayer from a more tortured heart. And what came of it? In cne sense, the prayer was not answered. The cup did not pass from him, he must drink it to the last bitter dregs. The prayer did not remove the pain. Yet in a deeper sense, the prayer of Christ was fully answered. “Not as I wilk but as Thou wilt,” he breathed. The prayer that sets one's own will in line with the will of God, whatever His will may be, is the prayer that always finds answer. At the end, there was not release, but power. “An angel came and strengthened him.” • • • What Prayer Can Do J ESUS “LEARNED obedience by the things which he suffered.” (Heb. 5:8.) We can share his les son. The hour of pain is not the hour to begin praying; those who have not learned prayer before, will scarcely know how to pray in a time of agony. Yet the time of pain is not the time to give up pray ing. When the dark hour comes, Jesus did not throw aside his faith, he prayed more intensely than ever before. Prayer does not explain pain, much less explain it away. Prayer does not always get rid of pain, even though in many cases the prayer of faith works cures where doc tors fait What true prayer does always is to set the one who prays in tune with the will of God even when that will Is not as our own. Prayer does not bring us all the answers to the riddles of existence. It does bring power to bear what God sends us. For God’s answer to those he loves is not always es cape, but it is always endurance. (Copyright by the International Coun cil ot Religious Education on behalf of 10 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features. Strawberries Delight at Meal Time! (See Recipes Below) Strawberry Parade B RIGHT red, luscious strawber ries are with us again in wonder ful quantities! They’re here to brighten menu plans as well as to delight the palate in numerous ways. Versatile, too, strawberries add color and flavor to fruit cups, make glamorous salads, and even more it with these su- tempting d e s- serts. The sea son is short, so make the most of per-special reci pes. The first on the recipe pa rade is an airy-fairy chiffon pie that uses strawberries in the pie mixture as well as in the garnish. It’s the perfect dessert to a heavy meal, and may be made well in advance of dinner or luncheon. •Strawberry Chiffon Pie (Makes 1 9-inch pie) 1 envelope unflavored gelatin % cup cold water !4 cup hot water 1 cup sugar 1 cup fresh strawberry pulp and juice % teaspoon salt 2 egg whites 1 cup cream, whipped 1 baked 9-inch pie shell Soften gelatin in cold water and dissolve in hot water. Add % cup sugar, strawberry pulp and juice, and salt Cool until mixture begins to thicken and then fold in whipped cream and the stiffly beaten egg whites to which the remaining Vc cup of sugar has been added. Pour into a baked pie shell and chill until firm. Garnish with whipped cream and strawberries. • • • A NOTHER of the season’s choice fruits is combined with straw berries to make a delectable pie. Rhubarb and straw berries are a happily wedded combi nation both from flavor and color standpoint. Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie (Makes 1 9-inch pie) W*. cups sugar Yt cup flour 1 cup fresh strawberries 2 cups diced rhubarb 1 recipe pastry 2 tablespoons butter Sift sugar and flour together and combine % of it with the fruit. Line pie pan with pastry, then sprinkle the remaining Hour-sugar mixture over the bottom and add the filling. Dot with butter and ar range pastry strips over the top in a lattice design. Bake in a hot (425°) oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to moderate (360*) and bake for 30 minutes longer or until fruit is tender. * Here’s a different type of straw berry pie, with sweetened con densed milk and cream cheese: Strawberry Cheese Pie (Makes 1 9-inch pie) 1 1/3 cups sweetened, con densed milk cup lemon juice 2 egg yolks, beaten 3 ounces cream cheese 1 cup sliced strawberries 1 baked 9-inch pie shell LYNN SAYS: Fresh Fruits Give Easy, DeUghtful Desserts Serve wedges of melon with lem on or lime juice for a perfect des sert to a heavy meal. Some people like to sprinkle their melon with salt A combination of melon balls in a sherbet glass gives a lovely rainbow effect. Serve this well chilled as a dessert, with the melon balls floating in orange juice. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Barbecued Chicken French Fried Potatoes Buttered Asparagus Tomato Cole Slaw Hot Biscuits Butter Honey •Strawberry Chiffon Pie Beverage •Recipe Given t 2 egg whites, beaten stiff Y* cup sugar Blend together milk and lemon juice. Add egg yolks, cheese and strawberries. Pour into pastry shell. Beat egg whites and slowly add the Ye cup sugar, beating con stantly. Pile over the pie. Bake in a slow (325*) oven for 15 minutes. Chill pie before serving. To make a crust for a single pie crust shell (9-inch), as called for in the above recipes, use one cup sifted Hour with % teaspoon salt. Crumble in 1/3 iup of lard or shortening, and use pastry blendor until 5 mixture resembles coarse meal. Add two to three tablespoons ice water,'just enough to hold mix ture together. Roll lightly and spread into pastry tin. Bake in a hot (450°) oven for 15 to 18 minutes. Strawberry Cream Tarts * (Makes 6 tarts) 6 baked tart shells H cup milk W cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour 1 egg, well beaten & teaspoon vanilla % cup cream, whipped 1% cups strawberries H cup currant jelly Scald the milk, then mix in sugar. Hour and beaten egg. Stir con stantly, then cook over hot water until thick. Add vanil la; cool. Fold in whipped cream. Fill tart shells half full of this mixture. Arrange a layer of straw berries on top. Heat the currant jelly, until it melts, then spoon one’ tablespoon of it on top of the straw berries. Let jelly settle. cake, many strawberry fans, will say, so here’s the recipe for an excellent one: Strawberry Shortcake (Serves 6) 2 cups sifted flour 4 teaspoons baking powder % teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1/3 cup butter 1 egg, beaten Sift together dry ingredients. Work in butter with a fork. Add milk, mixed with egg and blend to gether with flour mixture to make a soft dough. Turn out on floured board and divide dough into two parts. Pat each part, roll out and shape into a buttered round tin. Or, cut with biscuit cutter to make individual cakes. Bake 12 minutes in a hot (450°) oven. To serve, split while hot, butter and spread one quart of cleaned and sweetened strawberries. Top with whipped cream or serve plain or with thick cream from a pitcher. Here’s a frozen strawberry des sert which makes a good dessert for warm evenings: Slices of cake which have be come a little stale may also be topped with sweetened berries for a simple, economical dessert. A bowl or a basket of assorted fruits and berries makes a beau tiful dessert for a porch supper be it family or party. Pieces of fresh pineapple, com bined with fresh whole berries and sliced bananas form the basis of a nice dessert fruit cup. Fresh currants, sugared and chilled make a nice dessert dua with fresh red raspberries. Btms of Thou{ht For fools rush in where an gels fear to tread.—Pope. • • • To live without loving is not really living.—Moliere. • • • A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.—Tennyson. • • • Worms wind themselves in our sweetest flowers.—Cowper. FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE m by Roger C. Whitman Building A Basement Room Question: We have a project in mind and 1 am able to do the work myself if I have a little help. We want to dig out a basement under the kitchen; we have two rooms under the house already. Have you any leaflets on tiling out the drain, and footings for con crete blocks? After the basement room is completed, we plan on a kitchen sink and cupboards. Have you any leaflets on plumbing for a kitchen? Answer: Those are all rather large subjects, and 1 do not have any leaflets to cover them. If there is a good public library in your town, you should find handbooks on plumbing and piping on file. Other sources of information are the publishing house of Theodore Audel & Company, 49 West 23rd St., New York; also the Popular Mechanics Magazine, 200 East Ontario St., Chicago. The Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Ave., Chicago, can supply bulletins on concrete work around the house. 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