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By Ertta Haley S KIN should be at its best during warm months, well colored, smooth and satiny. Summertime, however, for many girls is the time when they encounter most of their difficulties. Sun and wind can do unpleasant things to the skin unless you’re careful. Both of them can be drying to the extreme unless the skin has adequate protection. Too much sun when the skin can not "take it" will result in a severe and uncomfortable burn, to say nothing of the fact that it may be ruinous to the appearance. Sun bathing will do wonders for the akin, because of the ultra violet rays of the sun providing vitamin D. but you should not overdo it. Start with a short exposure time and build this up at the rate of five * or ten minutes a day. If the skin is extremely delicate and sensitive, use any of the many lotions which permit tanning with out the discomfort of burning. Even though you give skin the protection ot a lotion, it’s still wise not to sun Without building the time of ex posure by degrees. Good Ski? i Care Starts Within No cosmetic preparations can cure a bad skin. Skin health begins Internally with adequate diet, rest and cleansing. If the skin is rough ened, spotty or has a tendency to break out, look first to your diet for the cause. Drink plenty of water for a thorough cleansing of the system. Take sun in small doses , . . . Cut down on heavy or fried foods, pastries and other rich foods and substitute with fruits, vegetables, salads, light desserts and at least a pint of milk daily. Though it may sound far-fetched, rest and exercise are essential to Teen-agers ard living in co ordinated casnal separates like the one illnstrated above. A cruiser blue bloose is teamed with a Buffalo Nickel print in Indianhead cotton for smooth and durable wear. The classic style blouse with a bow at the neckline and the gracefully fall ing skirt may be turned out on ' your sewing machine with ease after a few lessons at the local sewing center even if you’re a novice. Cleanse properly for satiny skin. • smooth, satiny skin. Here’s why: circles under the eyes cannot be removed except by adequate rest. A sallow complexion can be helped only by stirring a brisk circula tion that will flood the skin with a tinge of pink color that’s desirable. After you’ve checked the above pointers, then start on external care. Delicate skins with fine grain and a tendency to dryness may have to depend on creams and lo tions for their cleansing. Average skins do well to combine soap and water cleansings with those of cream. Coarse, oily skin is best treated with consistent applications of soap and water. How to Solve Special Skin Defects Blackheads and whiteheads are common evidences of pore irregu larities. They are both the result of oily accumulations. When the pores are open and the oily deposit col lects grime, a blackhead results. When the oily deposit is under the skin, it is called a whitehead. Cleansing is the answer to treat ing blackheads. The skin may be creamod or washed with soap and water, or both of these operations may be combined for best effect Hot applications may also be used on the face to open the pores and remove the grime. Another good idea is to use warmed oil and dab this on the skin with a clean pad or swab of cotton. When the skin is thoroughly warm and re- ■THE READER'S COURTROOM- Upstairs Tenant, Downstairs Drip -By Will Bernard, LLB.- 1$ an Upstairs Tenant Liable for Letting Water Drip on the Floor? A pair of newlyweds moved into a flat over a stationery store. One evening, the wife absent-mindedly left the faucet running in the wash basin—with the plug in! During the night, water leaked steadily through the floor and dripped onto some merchandise in the store below. The merchant later filed suit tor the damages he had sustained. At the trial, the young couple pro tested that the mishap had been “absolutely unintentional," but the court decided they were liable any- ffow. The judge said that each tenant in a building must use "rea sonable care" not to damage the property of fellow-tenants. • • • A 10-year-old girl, riding on one of the "flying horses” on a merry- go-round, decided upon an experi ment. Paying no heed to warnings posted on the wall, she dismounted, looked around a bit and then tried to climb back on. But as she did so, the heel of the descending horse struck and injured her ankle. She later brought suit against the owner for damages, but the court ruled against her. The judge said that, by disobeying the posted rules, she had "brought her injury upon her- salf.” A traveller began descending an outdoor stairway leading to a rail road depot. He didn’t hold onto the handrail—even though he noticed the steps were still icy from a re cent snowfall. Sure enough, he slipped and broke his wrist. Later he filed a damage suit, blaming the railroad for not keeping the steps clean. But “the court granted him nothing. The judge ruled that, even if the railroad employees were negligent, so was the traveller. Since the danger was so obvious, he should have used the railing. • * * Do Courts Recognize The Law of Gravity? A telephone repairman was aloft one day, fixing a wire, when the cross-arm on which he was lean ing suddenly broke off. Injured in the fall, the repairman sued the company for damages. In nis peti tion, he told everything that had happened—except that he forgot to mention dropping to the ground! The tompany promptly seized upon this technicality to insist that the claim was no good. The company argued that, in presenting a legal claim, nothing may be “left to the imagination.” However, the judge brushed aside that objection and allowed the repairman to collect. He said the court took it for granted that, when the cross-arm broke, the law of gravity took over the situa tion! taxed, with pores open, cover the finger tips with tissue and press out the blackheads. If there is danger of bruising the skin and scarring it, it’s best to continue applications until the blackheads yield, rather than treat the skin roughly to remove them at one time. Soothe Skin After Treatment The skin will be quite red after the treatment, particularly in the areas on which you have concen trated most. Pat on cream and let the redness die down. After the creaming and a lapse of time, remove cream carefully and apply wads which have been dipped in ice water to the skin. These should be patted in an up ward direction, with particular care being used around the eyes. This application of Ice pads should be repeated several times as it shrinks the pores and helps cir culation, the astringent action of the cold drawing blood to the sur face of the skin. The better the cir culation, the easier it is for the blood to carry away impurities from the skin. The softly rippled texture of seersucker is suddenly one of the interesting fabric fashions of the season, and one that makes lots of style sense in swim suits. Choose nylon in a woven fabric used for dress maker suits or a rippled weave with elastic yarns for an utter ly smooth fit, and in either case, you have an unusual and smart looking suit that is at its best in or out of the water. For your more serious moments, when you go for swimming in a big way, the classic suit can take to spun nylon or wool, as you choose. KATHLEEN NORRIS "Point of No Return" in Politics DECENTLY I was a delegate to a ^ big New York convention in the interests of better citizenship. Hundreds of earnest, experienced men and women were there to make reports and speeches: the attorney general of the United States spoke; the mayor of the greatest city spoke. The finest talk I heard, and it was in line with many others, was made by a white-headed, eloquent woman who asked us all to get into politics. Oh, she didn’t mean that you were to leave the children’s lunches and the washing-machine and the vacation outing and “run” for something. What she asked was that you and I and everyone of us go to the little insignificant local political meetings, study the candi dates for mayor and school board and state offices right in our own towns, hear men discuss measures and candidates—even if it is only for the job of deputy shtriff in a crossroads village of fifty souls. Fatal Indifference It is because of you and me, and bur indifference to what is going on politically, right in our midst, that the great international issues go wrong. It is because of you and me that our representatives—w h o haven’t the faintest idea what we want or what we think, because we’ve never told them—lead us into measures utterly unnecessary, extravagant, dangerous. We women know that we could stop wars. We’ve always known it. But we can’t stop them by passing resolutions and wiring our congress men and senators. Too many of "... get into politics ..." them care only for votes, and know full well that before the next election comes around we’ll have forgotten all about it. One senator from an eastern state answered a reproachful tele gram from some 300 of his women constituents with a bland "Regret that I was unable to be in the house when the bill was killed.” Another told me seriously that if he had kept a certain pre-election promise he would have been prac tically a dead-letter in Washington and given no opportunity at all. So naturally he hadn’t kept it. Unenviable Membership No, we can’t improve or serve our country by passionate appeals to men already in office. But we can reach them by nomina ting them to a new society recently invented by myself. This unenvia ble membership in the Y.D.G.B.T.O. will reach them—it will scare them, we will have no trouble with them once we get it going. Those letters stand for “You- Don’t-Go-Back-To-Oflice.” In the case of local offices, change the last letter to your state or town. Know something about the men you have elected before the next election comes about, no matter how humble the job, and then get a few women together and decide which ones are eligible for the Y.D.G.B.T.O. To do that intelligently you must watch your paper, and go to a few meetings. I say “a few,” because, before you know it, you will become so absorbed in this new obligation that wild horses won't keep you away. Encourage your husband to go. Encourage the children, from 10 years up, to take an interest in the greatest country in * the whole world. A congresswoman, smart and busy and well paid and revelling in the excitement of Washington, talked to me of this last week. She has three sons, now 27, 24, and 19. She is a grandmother. “Our town has less than 3,000 inhabitants,” she confided to me. “Phil and I got the habit of going to little political meetings about 10 years ago. "We began to make informal un important little speeches here and there. I was sent, as a delegate to the state capital, lunched with the governor, heard all sorts of talk, and came home thrilled. Three months later some women—and some men, too, called on me and asked me to run for state senator. I won. “There was a lot of political housecleaining to db and I plunged into it. Two or three big municipal abuses went down like packs of cards. It sounds terribly formid able; it wasn’t. It was just some unscrupulous men taking advan tage of the political apathy of all the rest of us. “Then to my amazement I was running for congress, and saw my picture on all the fences. And it all started with our giving about two evenings a month to exciting, interesting, constructive political talk.” Graphite Held Top Lubricant New Process Seen Big Industry Aid LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—If you could buy a car that would run twice as long between overhauls with more speed and horsepower while using less gas and oil—how much extra would you expect to pay? Chances are that within a few years you will be able to get such an automobile for less than you pay for today’s cars. What would a nation pay for a peacetime “mothballing” process that would leave planes, ships, tanks and guns ready to go into action on a second’s notice? Al most any price, probably, but the actual cost would be little more than that of coating them with plastic film, as was done after World War H. Important as they are, these ap plications are but two in prospect with a new graphite coating de veloped by two Los Angeles chem ists, Ralph and Edwin HalL They said that this coating lubricates in extremes of heat and cold which would render oil useless. It also provides resistance to rust and corrosion which more than meets the toughest military demands. The navy already is experiment ing with the coating. The Halls say the coating has proved more resistant to salt water than any yet tested. Being only five ten-thousandths of an inch thick, it would not have to be stripped off before the weapon to which it had been applied could go into action. The brothers spent more than 10 years developing their patented process of applying graphite coat ing to virtually any metal, plastic or synthetic rubber surface. Last January they put it on the market. Since then. General Manager J. E. Droege said, their Electrofilm Corp. has been swamped with in quiries by the armed forces. "Much of the work we are doing is secret," Droege said. “But ours is the only lubricating method that can be used effectively in extreme temperatures." Fruit Preparation Required Processing III Kite IM ItM k Marta 'caiiir 5 fa.-rat k Marta Applei Wash, parr, core, cut in pieces. Drop in (lightly salted water. Pack. Add syrup. Or boil 3 to $ minutes in syrup. Pack. Add syrup. 25 10 Apricot* Wash, halve and pit. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Berries mespi Stravbfrri* Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8 Cherries Wash, stem, pit Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Cranberries Wash, remove stems. Boil 3 minutes in No. 3 syrup. Pack. 10 Currants Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 10 Figs Put in soda bath 5 minutes, rinse. Pre cook S minutes in syrup. Pack, add syrup. 30 10 Grapes Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8 Beaches Peel, pack, add syrup, or precook 3 minutes in syrup, pack, add syrup. 2<f 10 Pears Select not overripe pears, pare, halve, precook 3 to S minutes in syrup. Pack. Add syrup. 25 10 Pineapple PeiL remove eyee, cut or slice. Pre cook in No. 2 syrup S to 10 minutes. Pack with syrup. 30 15 Plums Wash, prick skins. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Quinces Wash, pare, cut in pieces. Precook 3 minutes in syrup. Pack, add syrup. 35 IS Rhubarb Wash, cut into pieces. Pack. Add syrup. 10 5 Strawberries Wash, stem, precook gently for 3 min utes in s>rup. Remove from syrup and cooL Boil syrup 3 minutes. Add berries and let stand for several hours. Re heat Pack. 20 8 Tomatoes Scald 1 minute, cold dip 1 minute, peel, core, quarter. Pack. 35 10 HOUStHtUO MtMOSl Follow Rules for Fruit and Berry Canning (See Directions Below) Can Fruits Well S UCCESSFUL fruit and berry canning is comparatively sim ple, but good results depend upon your being well-informed of the proper methods as well as accuracy in carrying out certain given di rections. If you canned fruits and berries last year and had some spoilage then check over the tips I'm giving and see where you slip ped. True econo my depen 1 s up on having suc cess with every jar you’ve put up. f Lack of suc cess in putting up fruit and berries may not have been due to any canning procedure. Your first essential job is to select sound fruit and berries. Fruit - or berries must be firm and ripe. Over-ripe material may be used for jams and jellies but should never be canned whole. Discard bruised berries or fruit as well as those which are specked. The fresher the fruit or berry, the better is your chance of canning successfully. If you have your own orchard or garden, then you can go right out and pick the produce and rush it into the kitchen for canning. This is the ideal way to can. • • • Blanching Means Removing Skins I T'S sometimes desirable to blanch fruit, or peel it This process means dipping the fruit such as apricots, peaches, etc., in hot water for a minute or so, then in cold water. The skin will slip off easily with just a slight pressure of the fingers or palm. If you’re blanching a bushel of fruit, do it in small doses. Letting the fruit stand in either the hot or cold water for more than the re quired minute will make it too watery. • • • Hot Water Bath Best for Fruit Canning F RUITS and berries, generally hold their shnpe better when packed hot or cold into the jars and are then processed by the hot water bath. The open kettle method, whereby the fruit is cooked in a large kettle on top of the range and packed while boiling hot into sterilized jars, is preferred by some people. After packing in the jars, the LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Meat Balls Gravy Rice Carrots and Peas Tomato Salad Po^ Seed Rolls Butter Devil’s Food Cake Beverage pressure cooker may also be used for processing. The pressure cook er, however, is not as essential to canning fruits and berries, as it is in canning vegetables. Precooking is recommended on the chart above for such fruit and berries as are watery. This method gives a better pack. * • • How Ur Choose The Best Syrup I N THE CHART, it is suggested that you add syrup to the fruit dr berries after it has been packed in jars. In some cases, it is advisa ble to precook the material in syrup before packing in the jar. For the small soft fruit such as sweet cherries and berries, use a No. 1 or a thin syrup made as follows: Use three cups of water to one cup of sugar and bring to a boiL The medium, or No. 2 syrup is used for peach es, sour berries, rhubarb, cher ries or goose berries. It is made by using two cups of water to one cup of sugar and bringing to a boil. The heavy, or No. 3 syrup is gen erally used on large sour fruits that have to be made extra sweet. Scum should be removed from the syrup after cooking, before pouring the syrup on fruit. Corn syrup and honey may be substituted in whole or in part in making the syrup. All honey, and no sugar, will change the flavor <St the fruit as well as make it slightly darker. Wash Frnit Thoroughly, But Avoid Soaking VjACTERIA lurk in soil, and for ^ this reason, it’s necessary to wash fruit and berries thoroughly. However, this does not mean that you allow the fruit or berries to soak in water. They may become waterlogged and give you • very watery pack once the fruit is in the jar. Whole fruits should be washed under gently running water and placed in a colander to drain as soon as washing is over. Berries may be dipped in and out of fresh, clean water in a basin and then placed in a colander to drain. Run ning water may break the berries apart LYNN SAYS: These Canning Tips Will Help You To make one quart of canned fruit, you’ll need two and one-half pounds of fresh apricots. The same weight of peaches and pears will also give a quart of canned fruit. Two medium sized pineapples are needed to yield a quart of the canned product. When packing fruit into jars in its raw state (cold pack), add syrup to within one and one-half inches of the top of the jar. From three to three and one-half pounds of strawberries are needed for a quart of canned material since they have a high percentage of liquid. One and one-half to two pounds of cherries or plums will yield a quart of the canned product. To sterilize jars for canned foods, wash them first in warm, soapy water. Rinse thoroughly. Cover jars with warm water and allow to come to a boil. Boil for 15 minutes. Let stand in water until ready to use. wmnm ^ I iHT lntern«*ionoi Uniiorm*Tpfi^ UUililin Sunday School l.wsons HI By DU. KENNETH J. F8BEMAH SCRIPTURE: Psalms 24 : 84 ; 9S:l-7b. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm «6:l-8. Why Church Music? Lesson for July 17, 1949 W HY church music? Hymn books are expensive, learning new hymns is a bother, choirs are a lot of trouble. Most preachers need more time for their sermons; why not cut out the music and let them have fifteen min utes extra? No sir; it won’t do.. Say what you please, the average church-goer knows better than that. He may never have thought it out and he might not have Dr. Foreman heard of the word “hymnology,” but Mr. Average Churchman likes music in the church, even if he never opens his mouth himself. Liturgy S INGING in church was not in vented yesterday. In the Psalms, as in our own hymnals, some of the poems were originally written and intended for use in public worship. The word “liturgy” simply means the order of manner of service, and all churches have liturgies whether they give them that name or not Our familiar “Holy, Holy, Holy,” was written for use in an early morning service; “Bread of the world” was writ ten as a Communion hymn; “Break Thou the Bread of Life” while often used at Communion was no so intended, as yon can tell by reading it carefully; It was meant for use Just before the reading of the Scripture. “Day is Dying in the West” is best used in an out-door service. “Ivory Palaces” was written one Sunday afternoon in North Caro lina for use in an evangelistic meet ing that night. It might interest you to leaf through your own hym nal and see how many hymns were written purposely for ch'irch use, « • » Songs of the Temple T HREE liturgical Psalms are our lesson selection. Use your imagination when you read them. As you read Psalm 24, think of a great procession marching through the streets of Jerusalem on a holy day and approaching the tall temple shining on the city’s highest hill. Singing as they climb, perhaps one part of the congrega tion sings the question: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Who shaU stand in his holy place?” Perhaps another group of voices takes up the answer: “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart . . .” As the great gates swing open, the chant rises: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates!” for the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, is marching. The little kings (in Israel and over the world) have comb and gone; only the Lord of Hosts is the King of Glory. Singing the glory of God brings it before the mind far better than read ing about it in a book! Then the 84th Psalm is taken from what they called the “Chief Musician’s Collection,” evidently a part of what we now would call the choir library. It is the song of a man who loves the church and loves the people whom he finds there. Psalm 95:l-7b is also obvi ously a song for public worship, and still is sung every morning in churches around the world. • • • The Best is Not Too Good I F in ancient times when God’s people were learning to sing, the noblest poems of inspired men were set to the best music avail able and used for the honor of God and the help of man, then surely Christians ought to do no less. If you had a friend coming to see you, one whom yon re spect and wish to honor, yon certainly would not set the table with all the chipped-np old kitchen china and yon wouldn’t put wilted flowers on the table and yon certainly wouldn’t keep the radio tuned to the tin-pan- niest trash you could find on the dial. No, if you have anything for him you want it to be of the very best. Why not so with God? The house of God is no place for cheap, bad music, jingly meaningless rhymes instead of noble hymns and psalms, tiresome grind-organ tunes or jaz zy swing stuff instead of music that has real power and beanty. If non sense is bad in a sermon, it is worse in a prayer and worst of all in a hymn. If mere noise is bad in a sermon, it is worse in a prayer and unbearably bad in a hymn. (Copyright by the International Cotin- /il of Religious Education on behalf of 10 Protestant denominations. Released nr WNU Features. ; ASK (ME ’ ANOTHSK 7 A General Quiz ? ? ? ? ? ? ? " v^enciui vxu.t o- The Questions 1. What criminal was known as “Baby Face”? 2. Why is a football called a pigskin? 3. What are the boats used by Lieutenant Bulkeley and Ensiga Cox in their raids in Binanga Bay called? 4. What college is Peter of Yugoslavia now attending? 5. Where is the Atlantic Ocean west of the Pacific Ocean? The Answers 1. George Nelson. 2. Because originally it was made from the bladder of a pig. 3. 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