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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
WOMAN'S WORLD
Study Basic Needs Before Buying Linens
By Ertta Haley
B RIDEo axe not xxxc only ones
who will be putting in a stock
ot household linens. Homemakers
who have been keeping house tor
five to ten years may well find that
their stocks need replenishing.
Buying linens these days needs
thought, care, study and some
background of knowledge. As in
anything, you do not buy by price
alone. You do not even buy by size
alone. You must know something
about such things as thread count,
sizing, absorbency, machine
stitches per inch, and all sorts of
things which you may never have
considered.
Before considering these aspects
of buying, check your supplies
against what is deemed a minimum
practical wardrobe for each bed.
This includes six sheets, three
pillowcases per pillow, two mat
tress pads, one winter bedspread,
one summer bedspread, one sum
mer blanket and winter blankets
according to the climate.
Good Linens Contribute
To Well Being
If you’ve ever slept on a bed in
which the sheet barely covered the
surface, you’ll know the importance
of intelligent selection. Sheets not
only protect the mattress, but
they contribute to comfort and
well-being.
Although spoken of as linens,
few women have sheets of actual
linen. Cottcm is used most fre
quently because it wears and laun
ders well and absorbs moisture
readily.
Simple Styling
Read labels carefully ....
It’s estimated that good cotton
sheets will wear through several
hundred launderings. Whether the
gheet is muslin or percale is not
the question, since each has dif
ferent weights and qualities.
Most women choose good quality
percale for their “best”; for every
day wear, a good quality muslin
is the accepted buy.
Consult Labels
When Buying Sheets
There’s important information on
labels for women who want the
most value when buying sheets
and pillowcases. Generally speak
ing, the higher the thread count,
the higher the quality and price of
the sheet.
Threads per square inch means
the total number of threads length
wise and crosswise. You’ll find
some sheets rated at 180, and
some low as 112.
Weight of the sheet, usually
given in ounces per square yard,
There’s new interest in the
cream and natural shades and
a St. Louis designer catches
it in this impeccably tailored
suit dress as simply styled as
a man's suit. Stitching at the
pocket edges and on the revers
are the only dressmaker de
tails on the suit. Seif-covered
buttons and slanted pockets, as
well as the slim skirt, are of
high fashion importance.
is important but the sheet should
not be judged by weight alone. If
FT**
To buy linens intelligently.
the yam count is low and weight
high, note the amount of sizing. If
THE READER'S COURTROOM-
'Bum' Is No Slander to Tenant
-By Will Bernard, LL.B.-
h it Slander to Call
A Man a "Bum"
An apartment house tenant had a
Strong dislike for several of the
other occupants. As time went by,
all of them moved out except one.
When he met this last holdout in
the back yard one day, the tenant
exclaimed: “You are the last of
the bum tenants in this building!”
The other man sued for damages,
saying that he had been slandered
by being described as a “bum."
However, the court denied his
claim. The judge said that, so long
as no tangible harm was done, the
word "bum” wasn’t such a serious
accusation after all!
• • •
May All Children be Forced
To Go to Public Schools?
A state law was passed requiring
ill students between the ages of
I and 16 to attend public schools.
^ private school promptly filed
i test case, claiming that such a
aw was unconstitutional. The state
ifficials explained that they wished
o give the same kind of education
o all children. However, the court
leld the law unconstitutional, vio-
ating “the liberty of parents to
lirect the upbringing and educa-
ion of their children.” The judge
laid the state had no power “to
itandardize its children by forcing
hem to accept instruction from
>ublic school teachers only.”
If a Cat Kills a Canary, Must
The Cat's Owner Pay Damages?
A woman’s cat took a strong dis
like to a singing canary, kept in
the parlor of the house next door.
One evening the cat slipped into the
neighbor’s house, stole into the par
lor, and silenced the canary for
ever. The neighbor sued the woman
for damages, claiming that she
must pay for the evil deed done by
her pet. However, the court ruled
that the woman was not respon
sible. The judge pointed out that
this was an ordinary, peaceful cat,
with no special tendency to be
vicious. He added that a cat’s own
er should not be blamed just be
cause the animal occasionally may
revert to his “wild nature.”
• » •
After a Convict Serves
His Sentence, May He be
Forced to Leave the Vicinity?
A convicted criminal served his
term in the state penitentiary and
was duly discharged. He soon
found a job in a gas station near
the prison. One day, he was ar
rested again. It seems there was a
state law requiring discharged
convicts to leave the county with
in 24 hours after their release.
However, at the trial, the court
held the law unconstitutional and
ordered the man freed. The judge
said it was unfair to impose this
additional restraint on a man "after
he has paid his debt to society.”
it is 10 per cent or more, you have
a poor quality sheet.
The breaking strength of a sheet
will tell you how long the sheet
will wear. When the count is low
the wear is less than when tie
count is high.
Select a sheet of the proper size
for the bed. A standard double bed
requires a sheet 81 by 108 inches
in size. It should not be less than 99
inches long to satisfactorily cover
the bed.
Single beds require a 65-inch
width sheet while three-quarter
beds need a 72-inch width.
Look for adequate hems on
sheets as well as pillowcases to
give best wear.
White has been the generally ac
cepted color for sheets for a long
time. However, luscious pastels
are now obtainable, if you want
them. The colored sheets with
matching cases are usually avail
able only in the higher priced mus
lins and percales.
B« Smart!
New button effects as well as
Interesting color combinations
are being featured on summer
shorts. One of the unusual new
ideas uses buttons in the back,
such as the double row in the
design sketched here. One of the
very smart color effects is the
black jersey for the tops, com
bined with another color such
as blue checks at the left, with
white or solid color.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Mother Still Gets Her Way
A reader what a fix we wives and
mothers would be in, most of the
time.
How little they know, as we nod
and agree and concede and fix
things generally, of what is going
on inside of us. How little they
know of the opinions and adjust
ments that even the simplest do
mestic arrangements involve.
"By the way," says the man of
the house, “I asked the Fosters to
come in Thursday night. Since
you’re having a waitress I don’t
suppose 10 is any more than eight
to handle?”
What the wife says is, “Oh, nice,
dear.”
What she thinks is: “Great
heavens. Ten guests for dinner—
Minnie can barely get around to
four. Only nine of the tulip doilies
and napkins. I’ll have to use the
horrible old yellow ones. Almost
all the yellow glasses are broken.
I suppose the leg of lamb will be
enough—everything seemed right
for just Joe and Ellen and the
Whites and the Greens and our
selves. But with that horrible
Nancy Foster and her big diamond
—oh, dear. And then the bridge
game; I’m so tired I wanted just
to sit restfully playing cards to
morrow night. Ten—you can’t do
anything with ten. If I just use our
garden marigolds, Jim may not
think it’s smart enough for the
Fosters. Oh, aren’t husbands stu
pid—stupid—stupid. ’ ’
Unexpected Excursions
All that is behind her pleasant,
“Oh, nice, dear.”
Or perhaps her husband comes in
on a Saturday morning to say:
“Great break, Mollie. Dawson’s
old grandmother died this morning
and the office is closed for the
day. How’s about a picnic, hey,
kids? I’ll get the car ready and you
throw some lunch together.”
”. . . How’s about a picnic, kids? . .
In which case Mother’s “Oh, won
derful!” covers an interior
monologue something, like this:
“Oh, for pity’s sake. Last Satur
day when we were all ready to go
to the beach you thought a thunder
storm was coming on and cancelled
the whole thing at 11 o’clock. Now
when I’ve got Annie here and was
going to take down those dining-
Toom curtains, and my one-bowl
cake is in the oven and Shirley’s
shorts are in the wash, and I prom
ised to sit for two hours this after
noon with Aunt Mattie, and Bob
has just asked to go off with Billy
Smith for the day and Mrs. Holden
is coming at three to help Sally
with her French—oh, what are men
made of, anyway! Now there he
is, out there whistling while he pre
tends to do something to the car,
and Annie and I have to hustle
some sandwiches together, and
scare up some ca’:e somewhere
and get rid of that eternal little
hanging about Miller girl—”
An Obtuse Class
Yes, it’s a good thing that most
men aren’t mind readers, but on
the contrary are singularly obtuse,
as a class. Marriage couldn’t get
very far without these gracious and
temporizing concessions from
Mother.
Later on, of course, as all good
mothers and wives know, she may
get her own way after all. Just a
delicate hint, regarding the fun Dad
and Bob could have at the ball
game—and take Billy, too, and then
Shirley could keep her date with
Catherine and Mother could see
poor Aunt Mattie—
And as Dad suddenly sees the
glorious possibilities out at the ball
park, with two shouting boys drop
ping peanut shells through the hard,
open seats, why everything changes
back. The cake gets decently
baked, the curtains come down,
Shirley presses her linen dress and
is off with Catherine, and Sally 1;
consoled by a promise of the
Disney picture if she really works
on her French.
Oh, yes, Mother gets her way
nine-tenths of the time, but she
gets it by seeming to lose it. She
falls In with Dad’s plans so readily
and pleasantly that he begins to
question them himself; perhaps he
has been a little hasty. Perhaps he
doesn’t really want it that way.
So when Mother says “Perhaps
you’re right, dear. We were going
to have a little more formal party
for the manager, remember? But
if you want to bring him home to
night to just what we have our
selves, we’ll take good care of him.
I’ll turn the stew into a meat pie—
we’ve strawberries—no, I can’t
have shortcake and pie—but I’ll
see. Your mother’s here, so we
may have to be pretty prompt, you
know how she hates that delay for
appetizers—” And mother con-,
tinues with a few more innocent but
well-placed objections.
After a few sweet considerations
like this, Bob senior is very apt to
break in with "I think you’re right,
dear. We’ll do it later and make it
more formal. I’ve not asked him
yet, so just forget the whole thing.”
So father arrives at this kindly con
viction without ever realizing exact
ly how he got there. He’s happy.
Mother is happier.
These are the very common
places of a good marriage. May
they always be. The day all mar
ried men become mind readers will
be a dark day in the holy state of
matrimony.
Ex-Presidents
Could Be Used
Might- Hold Senate
Advisory Position
WASHINGTON.—Herbert Hoover
believes that former Presidents
might well hold advisory seats in
the senate, although he himself
wishes no such office.
His view on the suggestion that
Presidents retire into senatorial
memberships were reported in an
interview. It answers one question
not included in the exhaustive re
port by the commission on organi
zation of the executive branch of
the government, which Mr. Hoover
heads.
“I don’t think it would do any
harm,” the former President said
“I think it would do good. I don’t
want to go there at my time of
life, but I think, as an addition to
the efficiencies of the government,
it would be greatly worth-while
for the future. Any former Pres
ident carries a lot of seasoned ex
perience which would aid the leg
islative side. It would be a good
thing to do.”
“Could that be done with our
Constitution?” he was asked.
“I understand that it could be
done by statutory law,” Mr. Hoover
went on, “provided the former
President had no vote. He could
have the privilege of debate, office
assistants and a salary.”
In questions and answers de
voted to the Hoover commission’s
report, Mr. Hoover said that the
program worked out by some 200
prominent private individuals on
his “task’ forces” and a paid staff
of another 300 persons indicated
eventual savings of about $4,000,-
000,000 annually. Personally he
said he thought the savings cer
tainly would exceed $3,000,000,000
and might touch $5,000,000,000.
At the same time, he stated
firmly that the suggested reorgpei
zation would not contribute to cen
tralization of control in the Presi
dency.
“We are here considering admin
istrative authority, not political
power,” he said. “It puts him (the
President) in authority as definite
as the president of a corporation
vis-a-vis his board of directors,
which is the congress. This is a
thoroughly American concept.”
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 28:16-20: Mart
16:14-20: Luke 24:4S-53; Acts 1:1-14;
Hebrews 7:25.
DEVOTIONAL READING: I Corin
thians 1:1-9.
He Lives On
Lesson for June 26, 1949
Dr. Foreman
W HAT IS JESUS, after all? A
name in a book? A picture or
the walls of churches? More thar
that! A historical character? Foun
der of a great re
ligion? More than
that! He is the ohe
and only Person
who can be every
where. He would
be important if he
had only lived; he
is far more so be
cause he lives on.
But where does he
live, and how?
Christians would
often feel lonely and discouraged,
if it were not for one thing. They
know Jesus prays for them. In
long-ago times the High Priest ol
Israel used to pass beyond his peo
ple’s sight into the silent Holy oi
Holies, and when he did, the people
knew that in that sacred place he
was bearing on his heart the whole
people, the people whom he served.
So the writer to the Hebrews, in the
New Testament, pictures Jesus as
the perfect High Priest, who has
passed beyond our sight, beyond
the beautiful blue veil of heaven.
Into the very presence of God,
where he lives, now to intercede
for his people who are ever on his
heart.
Jesus lives on today in the
life of prayer which we believe
is still his. No matter what
comes to the Christian, he can
remember that One is praying
for him who is stronger than
ail the world of evil.
“Greater is he that is for us than
he that is against us,” said John
the Apostle.
• • •
In His Book
L UKE tells us that Jesus had to
show some of his friends his
own picture in the Old Testament.
His portrait is not very plain there,
but in the New Testament it is very
plain indeed. The Bible leads up to
Christ, he is its crowning figure.
The Bible is, so to speak, a frame
for his picture. Many a person, in
remote regions of the world, has
become Christian just by reading
about Christ in some stray copy oi
the New Testament. The reader be
gins by reading about Jesus—then
the pages come alive, and he meets
Jesus, face to face. Jesus lives on,
wherever the Bible goes.
In His People
C HURCHES may argue among
themselves about what Jesus
meant by this or that. But there
cannot be any argument about one
thing. When Jesus left his friends
behind, he gave them orders to gc
tell the world about him. “Make
disciples of all nations ... Ye shall
be my witnesses.” A shut-mouthed
Christian isn’t much of a Christian.
A shut-mouthed church is a pool
sort of church. (Is it really a
church at all?) We do not believe
that Jesus expected his followers all
to become preachers.
Indeed, we should remember
that all the first Christians were
laymen. But they got results.
One hundred twenty people
grew to be three thousand, five
thousand, in a few weeks.
What is the reason that 120
Christians today don’t win 3,000
converts? One reason is that you
would probably find those 120
Christians complaining that their
church is “vacant,” they don’t have
s pastor. The early Christians might
have thought that very funny. How
can a church be vacant with 120
people in it? Christ lives in his
church.
• • •
Into All the World
C HRISTIANITY is the only reUg-
ion that can stand transplanting
into any climate. There is no other
religion that can number its peo
ple from the Arctic to the equator,
and from east to west around the
world. But this is not an accident.
It would not have happened by
itself. Jesus himself in Galilee
walked wherever he went, and in
all his grown-up life he did not
walk farther from his birthplace
than you could drive in an after-
noon.
But he walks on every shore.
Where ship and camel and
plane carry the missionary,
there goes Christ; where the
airwaves carry his message,
there is he. Wherever Christ
ians go, Christ goes In them
and with them.
He lives everywhere today where
Christians live, he walks on Christ
ians’ feet. Beside the four Gospels
m print, there is the Gospel Ac
cording to You. Does Jesus live in
and through you?
(Copyright by the International Coun
til of Religious Education on behalf oi
C Protestant denominations. Release*
a WNU Features.
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HOUSSHOIV
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Cook a Savory Main Dish in a Skillet
(See Recipes Below)
Skillet Dinners
W HEN YOU WANT to cook a
really appetizing dinner for
your family, do it in a skillet.
Veal chops, pork chops, curries
and chicken, all can be cooked to
mouth-watering tenderness in a
skillet after
browning, by cov
ering the skillet
and turning down
the heat. Mush
rooms, green pep-
.pers, onions and
all sorts of other
seasoning can be
added to make the food savory.
Pork chops are a real favorite,
especially if they are prepared in
this manner with tomatoes, green
pepper, celery and rice.
Pork Chop Skillet Meal
(Serves 4)
4 tablespoons fat
4 pork chops, 1" thick
4 slices Bermuda onion,
W* thick
3 cups canned tomatoes
4 rings green pepper,
v," thick
4 tablespoons uncooked rice
1 cup celery diced
Heat four tablespoons of fat in
skillet on high heat. Turn switch to
medium and brown pork chops un
til well browned on both sides, ap
proximately 15 minutes. Place a
slice of onion and one pepper ring
on each chop. Place one tablespoon
of rice in each ring. Pour tomatoes
around meat and add celery. Place
cover on skillet. When steaming
(about eight minutes), switch to
simmer and allow to cook for one
hour.
• • •
♦Skillet Chicken
(Serves 3-4)
2 cups cooked chicken
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
3 cups chicken stock or water
H teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
2 bay leaves
1 sprig thyme
2 small sprigs parsley
8 small onions
•4 pound mushrooms
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Melt butter in a saucepan. Stir
in flour. Add stock slowly, stirring
constantly, until sauce is thickened.
Then add bay
leaves, thyme and
sprigs of parsley
which have been
tied together. Ad<f
salt, pepper, on
ions and mush
rooms which have
,been cleaned and
stemmed. Simmer
on low heat for 45 minutes. Add the
chicken which may be in large
pieces, if desired. Heat chicken,
but do not allow mixture to boil.
Remove bay leaves, thyme and
parsley which were tied together.
Serve very hot, over biscuits or
cooked rice, sprinkled with chopped
parsley.
Skillet Veal Chops
(Serves 4)
6 loin veal chops
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
5 tablespoons fat
1 cup sliced onions
1 cup canned tomatoes
H cup hot water
1 bay leaf
2 tablespoons cornstarch
% cup cold water
LYNN SAYS:
Try These Seasonings
For Vegetables
Bake carrots if you want to try
something new and different.
Sprinkle small scraped carrots with
% cup of butter which is creamed
with V4 cup sugar, one teaspoon
salt, % teaspoon cinnamon and (4
cup of boiling water.
Garden-fresh green beans, sliv
ered and buttered, will be even
more tasty if you add some
chopped mint leaves to them just
before finishing the cooking.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
•Skillet Chicken
Hot Biscuits
Buttered Green peas
Grapefruit-Melon Salad
Beverage
Fresh Strawberries and Cream
Sugar Cookies
•Recipe Given
Dredge the chops in flour which
has been mixed with salt and«pep-
per. Saute onions in two tablespoons
of fat until brown.
Place chops on
top of onions, and
add tomatoes,
water and bay
leaf. Cover and
simmer on top of
range for 45 to
60 minutes until
tender. Remove
chops to a hot platter. Makes a
smooth paste of cornstarch and
cold water and add to liquid in
skillet. Stir and cook until thick
ened, then pour over chops.
Veal in Sour Cream
(Serves 4)
2 pounds boned veal shoulder,
cut in 1" cubes
2 ounces salt pork, cut fine
(i cup minced onion
H clove garlic, minced fine,
if desired
1 teaspoon salt
14 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon paprika
154 cups boiling water
94 cup soured cream
2 tablespoons flour
14 cup cold water
Saute salt pork, onion, garlic and
veal until meat is browned well on
all sides. Add seasonings and water.
Cook, covered over low heat until
veal is tender, about one hour.
Remove veal to hot platter and
keep warm. Add sour cream to
pan drippings. Stir flour and watei
together until smooth and add to
ingredients in saucepan.
Curried Lamb
(Serves 4)
1 cup uncooked rice
94 cup sliced onions
94 cup diced celery
2 tablespoons fat
154 cups cubed, cooked lamb
1 teaspoon curry powder
2 cups lamb stock or gravy
54 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons flour
14 cup cold water
Cook rice until tender and keep
hot. In the meantime, saute onions,
celery in fat in a skillet until light
ly browned. Add lamb, curry pow
der, stock and salt. Cover and sim
mer 30 minutes. If desired, thick
en liquid in pan with flour blended
with cold water. Serve over rice
Lamb Kidney Saute
(Serves 4)
8 lamb kidneys, split
2 tablespoons fat
I tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
54 cup beef stock
14 cup canned tomato Juice
54 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
4 slices toast
Saute cleaned kidneys in fat ir
a skillet for 15 to 20 minutes or un
til tender, turning frequently. Re
duce heat and sprinkle flour ovei
kidneys. Blend flour with fat while
turning. Add parsley, stock, tomatc
juice, salt and sauce. Cook over
low heat until sauce is thickened
Serve on toast.
Cooked, chopped spinach takes
on glamor if you place it in a cas
serole, top with cheese sauce and
mushroom caps. Place in oven
long enough to heat through.
When creaming green beans, add
a few dashes of onion juice to the
white sauce while you make it.
This adds zip to the mild tasting
vegetable.
Have you some dabs of leftovei
vegetables? Combine them in cheese
sauce and stuff hollowed-out cooked
onions with the mixture. Bake until
onions are tedder
Marriage, Divorce Rates
Show Noticeable Decline
Throughout the civilized world
in 1948, there was a noticeable
decline in marriage and divorce
rates.
With improved economic con
ditions, there were indications in
1948 that family life was slowly
returning to normalcy.
Many countries, notably Eng
land, Finland, Japan, Poland, and
Sweden, instituted or broadened
provisions designed to make fami
ly life more secure.
In the United States, about
1,800,000 marriages were per
formed, a decrease oi 10 per cent
from the provisional total of
1,992,354 in 1947, and a drop of
more than 20 per cent from the
final figure of 2,291,045 in 1946.
The rate of divorce was ap
proaching the pre-war trend, with
the number of divorces believed
not to exceed 420,000—a decrease
of 10 per cent from 1947, and a
30 per cent decrease from 1946.
Certain notable efforts to im
prove family life were made in
the United States in 1948, accord
ing to the article. The National
Conference on Family Life, au
thorized by President Truman,
convened at the White House in
May to explore the factual back
ground of U. S. families, dynamics
of family interaction, economic
welfare, and related topics.
Institutes on family relations
were held at the universities of
California, Chicago, Indiana, and
Southern California, and- the
American Institute of Family
Relations sponsored workshops at
several colleges. The University of
Florida extension division con
ducted seven regional family, life
institutes.
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Kidneys Must
Work Well-
For You To Feel Well
24 hour* every day. 7 day* araty]
week, never stopping, the kidneys filter
waste matter from the blood. ‘
If more people were aware of how the ,
kidneys must constantly remove eur*.
plus fluid, excess acids and other waste
natter that cannot star In the blood
without injury to health* there would
be better understandinc of why the
whole system is upset when kidneys fall
to function properly.
Burning, scanty or too frequent urina
tion sometimes warns that something
Is wrong. You may suffer nagging back
ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatie
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Why not try Doan’s PilUl You will
be using a medicine recommended the
country over. Doan’s stimulate the funo»
tion of the kidneys and help them to
flush out poisonous waste from tho
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
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