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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Stain Removal Kit at Home Is Economical By Ertta Haley J UST HOW MUCH do you know about removing stains? Or, do you just ignore them and hope that the cleaner will get them out of your favorite dress or that the stain on the linen napkin will come out in the wash? Many stains can be removed rather quickly and easily if you know just what to do when the ma terial is stained. A tragedy can be averted with prompt attention and your favorite dress or linen can be saved. It’s impossible to remember what you should do for all stains, but you oan probably remember the com mon ones and give them prompt at tention. Otherwise it’s a good Idea to clip out the tips I’m giving you, tack them on the kitchen or laundry room wall, or better still, in your stain removal kit, and then you'll know just what to do when the time comes. A stain removal kit is difficult to assemble, and it will save you many ilours of worry over stains and prob ably prevent some very real losses in clothing and linens. Many of the items given on the list can be pur chased from the druggist or even grocer. Others are household items which you already have, but they should be placed in a handy kit where you don’t have to search for them. A large tin box that locks is the ideal kit. Or, use any other dur- Slimming Panels Select proper method! ... able box which you may have. It should be large enough to hold all the items without their getting jumbled together. Use These Materials In Tour Kit Here are the items to go in the kit which you probably have at home already: absorbent cloths, white blotting paper, medicine droppers and bowls. You also have ammonia, vinegar, baking soda. French chalk or talcum powder, and borax. Here are items which you’ll probably have to, buy for the kit: turpentine, benzene, glycerine, ba nana oil, acetone or nail polish re mover, hydros in peroxide, carbon tetrachloride or another non-inflam mable solvent, and denatured alco hol. This alcohol should be laoeled poison and placed out of the chil dren’s reach. Also, you will need oxalic and crystals, which should be labeled poison and kept away from children. If you can find a good rust re mover, place that in the kit along with the other items. Vera Stewart poses white against black Irish linen for a sharply etched effect in this dress that can be worn in town with dark accessories or to the country club with white bag, snoes and hat. Decidedly slim ming are the white panels that add height but not width to the figure. New, too, is the cut-out oat measure with linen top, used for the clever handbag. Follow These Directions For Stain Removal Blood stains: If the fabric is white cotton or linen, a washable colored or fine fabric, soak the fresh stain in cold water, then wash For removing stains. in lukewarm suds. For a stubborn stain on cotton or linen, soak in salt water (V* cup salt to two cups water). Hot water should not be ■THE READER'S COURTROOM- Hit by Fire Escape, Wins Suit -By Will Bernard, LL.B.- May a Pedestrian Collect Damages if Bumped By a Fire Escape? At the end of a movie matinee, several of the patrons in the balcony decided to make their exit by way of the fire escape. They stepped out onto the platform—and the drop lad der swung slowly down to the street. The end of the ladder struck an un suspecting woman passerby, knock ing her down. When she later sued the theater for damages, the proprie- insisted that he was not respon- e for the misbehavior of the pat- s. However, he admitted that cus- icrs often had used this same t in the past. For this reason the rt held him liable, saying that vas up to the theater manage- at to take reasonable precautions inst such a dangerous practice. • • • y a Father be Jailed for Dicing His Child too Hard? Lissing a 25-cent piece from his ket, a father concluded that 12-year-old son was the thief, gave the boy .& terrible beating left him locked in an attic m, his hands tied together. For days the child was kept that r, fe<> only on bread and water, last his cries attracted a neigh- and the boy was rescued by ce. Arrested for assault and bat-' •y, the father was held guilty by court. May a Husband Annul A Marriage After 28 Years? A husband Went to court for an annulment, 28 years after his wed ding. He claimed he had just found out that at the time of the marriage ceremony his bride was already the common-law wife of another man! To make the story still more remarkable, he alleged that the other man was no one else but his own brother! However, the court refused to grant an annulment. The judge said he didn’t believe it • • • May a Wife Get an Annulment Because Her Husband Doesn't Have a College Degree? After several years of married life, a wife went to court for an annulment on the grounds of fraud. She told the jury: Before the wed ding, her husband-to-be said he had a medical degree and was planning to apply for a license to practice. But afterward he kept postponing the application, and finally ad mitted that he had never finished his medical studies. The court, however, decided this deception wasn't bad enough basis for an an nulment. He compared the wife’s situation to that of a bride who discovers that her bridegroom’s teeth are false—or a bridegroom who discovers that his bride’s blonde hair is dyed. In all these cases, said the judge, the deception is not serious enough to justify an annulment. used until at least part of the stain has been removed as it may set it. For a non-washable fabric, use an absorbent first, then sponge with cold water. Candle wax stains: for all fab rics, scrape off excess wax, then place between blotters and press with hot iron. Sponge with carbon tetrachloride. Chocolate or Cocoa: For cotton or linen, dip fabric up and down in hot water; wash in hot suds. Bleach any remaining stain with hydrogen peroxide. For washable colored fabric, use lukewarm suds and car bon tetrachloride sponging. For non-washable material, use the sol vent. Coffee or Tea: Pour boiling water from a height through the stain (stretch fabric over a bowl). Bleach with hydrogen peroxide. For fine, but washable fabrics, sponge with warm water, apply glycerine if stain remains, let stand % hour and rinse well, then wash in lukewarm water. For non-washable material, sponge with carbon tetrachloride, then apply glycerine (warm), then sponge with warm water. Be Smart! In planning lovely costumes for warm days ahead, don’t overlook the unusual and rich beauty achieved by color con trasts. The colors in a rock col lection, gray, yellow, green and rust, were chosen for their con trast in a handwoven fabric of rayon. The design is deliberate ly kept simple as the best means of playing up the beauty of the fabric and the contrast ing colors. Interwoven threads of lurex give a scintillating life to the colors. KATHLEEN NORRIS Womans Genius Is for Living N OT LONG AGO I said in one of — these articles that an im portant element in a successful marriage was the quality all good wives have, the quality of appar ently accepting what is presented them by the different members of her dry, or the book that exhaust* her physically as well as mentally, or the great statue that steeps her in plaster' dust for years. No, her masterpiece is the living thing. The clean and happy chil- the family, apparently agreeing to ! dren about the supper table. The it, and then gradually and gently breaking it down. This process is entirely familiar to all intelligent women. It is dimly visualized by some men, but not clearly. That the little woman, without crossing them or starting a row, does somehow manage to keep things going with a maximum of happiness for all concerned, is all they want to know. Men’s way is to do a thing at once, do it twice over if necessary, hammer and nail it down. And then they show an innocent surprise, and have been showing it for hun dreds of years, that somehow it all come unstuck. Some years ago a national maga zine asked me to answer a provoca tive article by Albert Wiggam. Tha article was entitled ‘ Where Are the Women Geniuses?” and it con tended, and truly, that there aren't any. No Real Genius No, no woman has ever written a great literary classic, a play, an opera, a symphony. Rosa Bonheur, Sappho, Chaminade, Jane Austen and George Eliot usually are rushed to the fore when this ques tion is raised, but having sampled or seen the works of all of them, I am obliged to agree with Profes sor Wiggam. Perhaps Miss Austen comes closest to genius, but it . . . show an innocent surprise . . . would be a bold typewriter that dared place her works beside those of Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens or the great com pany of the Russians. Of Sappho I know nothing, and I don't think the people who cite her as a genius do, either. “Pride and Prejudice” I re-read last year. It’s a fine tense story, but musty in its household morals as genius never becomes musty, stiff in its language. It’s a book in which the lives of several helpless, love - hungry, marriage - awaiting girls are described, but what the Bennetts wore, or wanted to wear, what they ate at any single meal, or what furnished any one of their rooms. Miss Austen does not deign to say. They don’t take walks or raise flowers or read books 01 get jobs; they languish about suffering at every slight from indifferent and godlike males, and are thrown into ecstasies at every smile. But yet it’s good reading. I recommend it Different Interpretation What I said in my countering article in defense of women was this. That men’s interpretation of the word “genius” ought to be en tirely different from that of women. Unfortunately it isn’t. Unfortunate ly we have followed like sheep their proud designation of their fellow- men as geniuses, when half of them—nine-tenths of them—aren’t geniuses at all. Genius lives. Most of the "geniuses” of my childhood are as forgotten as the roses of yes teryear. The genius of women goes far deeper than that of men, and real geniuses are almost as rare. But while the man wants the imitation, the copy, the superfluous thing that is art, woman wants the real thing. She doesn’t spend her energy on the musical composition that drain* tired man, rested and content at the end of the day, among those who love him. The delicious seven- pound bundle that her hands are the first to touch is her poetry. The acid little wail of the new bom is her music, or the sound of the chil dren shouting in a Saturday back yard. Her marble is touched by her own lips as she stoops over the coffin of some loved old companion who has gone home. This sounds perhaps like the flip pant answer of an offended woman to a not-too-serious critic. But I do not mean it so. I mean it as a sin cere tribute to the name of woman. It is my profound and sorrowful belief that this quality in women— this content with the fact rather than any interpretation of the fact, this putting first the pictures and the music, the statues and plays take second place, might have had a profound effect upon our whole world history had it been sooner recognized. In one of his timely poems about a great politician, whose unselfish action in one of our social crises cost him high political power, the American poet Vachel Lindsay said; “sleep on, oh eagle forgot ten, who kindled the flame. Far better to live in mankind than to live in a name.” There is, ulti mately, the finest reason for being. That is a woman’s genius and her opportunity. To live forever in the continental betterment of man kind. Ex-GI Likes Baby-Sitting - Says Job Can Be Happy Avocation ALFRED, N. Y. — Like many another college-going ex-service man, Roy A. Kane has turned to baby-sitting as a source of extra income. And for his fellow baby-tenders the 28-year-old Alfred university undergraduate has a few sugges tions to increase the efficiency of their work. The job, he maintains, “can be pleasant and profitable if the parents cooperate." “I always smoke my pipe when I go to a home,” he said, “because I have heard that a pipe-smoking man gives a woman confidence. “Also, when I get to the house, I always ask about the children’s health to reassure her and to find out whether I will have a pleas ant evening," he said. Upon arriving at the home, the Fanwood, N. J., political-science major sits down with his pipe, glasses, and textbook and “looks intelligent.” “As soon as I am sure the par ents are safely gone, I make a quick reconnaissance of the re frigerator, cookie jar, and cake box to get my evening properly sched uled. “If the man of the house is a pipe smoker and has an expen sive make of tobacco in his hu midor, I knock out my pipe and refill with his tobacco," Kane ex plained. The pipe and a magazine keep him occupied for the next few hours. “Later I go to the kitchen and prepare a snack,” he said. “On one occasion I had just finished cutting a liberal slice of beef for a sandwich when I heard the sound of little footsteps. “It was 6-year-old Junior, rather displeased. I couldn’t scold him for getting out of bed because he had caught me being naughty before I caught him. By JOE MAHONEY TWO YEARS AGO, WAS SAID TO HAVE © YEARS OF TOP-FLIGHT PITCHING AHEAD OF HIM. NOW, DUE TO AN ARM INJURY AND AN OPERATION,HIS CAREER IS A QUESTION MARK.BACK IN l9-4& BLACK!E LED THE N.L. IN SHUTOUTS WITH 6. IN l©47 HE WON THE MOST GAMES, HAD THE MOST STRIKEOUTS AND SET A MODERN LEAGUE RECORD OF CONSECUTIVE GAMES , WON BY A RIGHT-HATCER WHEN HE MOWED DOWN 16 TEAMS N A ROW! i// TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS, N WINNING THE I94<5 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS, BECAME THE FIRST TEAM TO COP THE TROPHY 3 SEASONS IN A ROW SINCE THE N.H.L.WAS ORGANIZED IN 1917. 0 ' &T: }))» Dn 1946,TED WILLIAMS WENT HITLESS IN ©OF THE II GAMES HIS TEAM PLAYED IN YANKEE STADIUM. -SPORTLIGHT. Who'll Fill Baseball's Gaps? _By GRANTLAND RICE_ Grantland Rice QNE CAN RECALL, looking back many years, how people began to wonder who were going to fill the gaps when Hans Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Nap La- |oie had finished. Then there was Ty Cobb—followed by Babe Ruth. Ruth and Gehrig. No one could take Matty’* and Cy Young’s place. But Walter Johnson did. And after John son there was Bob Feller. It may be that no ballplayer can fill the gaps left by Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Or per haps Walter John son. No one has quite filled Hans Wagner’s place at short. But with the Di- Maggios, Ted Wil liams, Bill Dickey, Bob Feller, H a 1 Newhouser, Lou Boudreau, Stan Musial and a few others, most of the gaps are plugged. Ruth, Cobb and Wagner’s remain unfilled. But we have now come to a spot in the game that either Gen. Abner Doubleday or someone else in vented where we have to look around for other gap-fillers. Bill Dickey is through as a player. So is Mickey Cochrane, another catching brilliant. Wil liams and Musial should have a few years more. They are two of the tops—maybe the best. But Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Ewell Blackwell, Char ley Keller, Whitey Kurowsxl, Marty Marion, and many more are nearing the borderline where the sign reads—“Game CaUed.” It must be admitted there are not too many headliners left from the old guard. Ted Williams is the top man now. Musial is struggling in the grip of an early season slump. Newhouser is still pitching well, but he isn’t winning as he used to win. Blackwell, a great pitcher, has been struck down. He may or may not come along later on. Char- tie Keller is now out in No-Man’s Land. No one knows when he will be back. Feller is a bull-pen pitcher. “Where are the gods of yesterday?” So they are asking today who will take the places of Dimag gio, Williams, Feller, Musial, Marlon, Newhouser, Boudreau and other headliners who will soon'' be over the hill. This makes one of the greatest guesses in sporting history. Who will be the coming stars to fill these gaps? For there will soon 1 1955-39 1948 ^ M © Gf 170 002 BUYS 1 TON 90 002 BUYS 1 TON be many that will need plugging. Here are a few guesses—A1 Dark and Earl Torgeson of the Braves; Ralph Kiner of the Pirates; Zern- man, A1 Raschi and Bob Porter field of the Yankees; Perhaps Lar ry Yogi Berra and Larry Doby of Cleveland; Ralph Branca and Sid Gordon of the Giants; Eddie Kazak of the Cardinals; Richie Ashburn of the Phillies; Cari Furillo, Dod gers; Bob Chesnes, Pittsburgh; Johnny Groth, Detroit, and Roy Campanella, Dodgers. Tommy Benrich is one of the star ballplayers of the year. But Tommy is 32 years old and he has been a pro ball player for 15 years. So Tommy can’t be Included with the stars of tomorrow. Then you can watch Lloyd Merrlman of the Reds, a possible gap filler. Dick Kryhoski of the Yankees and George Kell of the Tigers are other possibilities—don’t overlook either. Enos Slaughter and Pee Wee Reese have come along too late for any future build-up—maybe Fer ris Fain and Eddie Waitkus of the Philadelphia teams may prove the answer around first base, which has taken a heavy dip. Then we might take a look at all those $50,000, $60,000 and $70,000 bonus players— Johnny Antonelli of the Braves— Curtis Simmons and Robin Roberts of the Phillies—and a few others who have yet to prove how good they are. It might be mentioned here that Bill Dickey ranks Yogi Berra as potentially the best catcher In either league. “Con sidering Berra in every detail,” Dickey said, “I’d take Berra over any catcher in baseball today. He is young, strong and ambitious. He ha' a fine arm and he can hit.” Dickey is extremely keen about the future possibilities of Raschi and Porterfield. He isn’t suggesting they can fill the gaps that will be left by Feller and Newhouser. But he is sure they are much better than merely good pitchers. Gus Zcinid of the White Sox, a giant Texan, has shown exception al promise. He may move up to challenge Ralph Kiner as the home-run star of 1954 or 1955. Zernial has shown enough promise to be rated high in any future book. Don’t overlook Dark of the Braves. He is one of baseball’s fastest men who can field and hit He may move in back of Hans Wagner before he is through with the game. By Tom Gregory (£a Oreenotv Pipe HuMBt Ball Stop Pea. Falls Sept Bjno- From Vacuum Coffse Maker WHEN THE SEAT OF YOUR FLUSH-TANK. BALL VALVE BECOMES SO PITTED THAT THE RUBBER STOPPER. NO LONGER. MAKES FULL CONTACT^ A DISCARDED VACUUM COFFEE MAKER SEALING RING OFFERS A MEANS OF A QUICK REPAIR. DRAIN THE TANK AND DRY THE BRASS SEAT CASTING SMEAR THE OUTSIDE OF THE CASTING WITH A PLUMBER'S SEAL ING COMPOUND. PRESS THE RUBBER RING IN THE OVERFLOW ARM. Good Clean Pasture Helps Poultry Men Home Grown Feeds Cut Operating Cost Good clean pasture and plenty of home grown feeds for your pullet crop pays dividends in more eggs, lower production costs and bigger poultry profits. The use of range shelters, range feeders and barrel waterers makes such a program easily possible. Missouri university tests show that pullets on well-fertilized alfal fa pasture consumed 17 per cent less feed than birds on bare range. The pasture-fed pullets needed less feed for each pound of gain. Bird* on clean pasture were healthier and more energetic. Mortality rate was lower and there were fewer culls. Out of 100 pullets at four veeks of age, 94 of the alfalfa- ranged birds later went into the laying house, compared to 70 of those raised on bare ground. Pur- lue university tests showed that ladino clover with com and smaU grains provided a complete ration for laying flocks. Getting good pasture and a cheap and plentiful supply of grain is a matter of putting farm soil in shape to produce bigger yields per acre. For this you need a rotation in which deep-rooted legumes and grasses are keystone. You need to build up the organic matter supply via plowed-under legumes, crop residues and manure. You need to feed the soil a good ration of plant nutrients, so it, in turn, can feed the crops. In such a program, ferti lizer is an important member of the soil-building team. At current prices, eggs will buy nearly twice as much fertilizer as 10 years ago. It takes only 90 dozen eggs to buy a ton of 3-12-12 ferti lizer today, whereas it took 170 dozen back in 1939. Check Work Stock Owners of the 55,000 horses and mules on Maryland farms have been urged to “check intake valves, remove carbon from the cylinders, and adjust the carburetor.” Those terms aren’t as mixed as one might think. Joseph M. Vial, extension animal husbandman, ex plained that a horse’s mouth and teeth may be compared to intake valves on a tractor. The teeth need to be floated (just as the intake valve needs to be properly seated) if they are to meet evenly and let the horse chew his feed properly. Just as tractors are troubled with carbon in the cylinders, horses may have trouble with internal parasites. These may be removed by any competent veterinarian and the horse will be a better worker during the coming summer. The carburetor on the tractor ad justs fuel supply to the work load. For horses, tjiis is accomplished by getting them in proper condi tion before the heavy work load comes. Vial recommends this be done by “feeding the horse a hand ful of oil meal with his grain at this time of year to keep him in good condition and by giving him as many jobs to do as possible; such as spreading manure or haul ing logs.” Other recommendations include: “Keep water in his cooling system, keep his tires in good condition by having him properly shod and *e* that his harness fits.” DRAWER PULLS WILL SERVE AS THEIR OWN MARKING TEMPLATES IF YOU MAKE TWO SPECIAL SCREWS. GRIND THE HEADS TO POINTS, TURN THEM LIGHTLY INTO THE PULL AND THEN PRESS THEM INTO THE FACE. Farm Record Keepers Told of "Short Cut" “It’s easier to keep up than to catch up,” advises Clara Leopold, extension home management spe cialist at the University of Nebras ka, to the home and farm account record keeper. Another hint, she says, is to keep a pencil attached to the account records. According to Mrs. Leopold, • certain time each day should be set aside to jot down the daily trans actions. ■■'I Mr. Peck’s wife had just pur chased a grandfather’s clock in an antique shop and he was forced to carry it for several blocks. As he labored along under his burden a man stopped him and asked, “Wouldn’t a watch be mare convenient?” Matt—“What are those marks on your nose?” Henry—“Oh, they are made by gl3SS6S.” Matt—“You should learn to till your head back, then it would pour out easier.” StJoseph IS ASPIRIN AT m SECT bloated like a BALLOON t cir>iriCH7 Get Lane’s Pills with their Sl.CK.IiSH • wonderfully compounded drugs. Cleans the intestines the easy way. 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