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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C, WOMAN'S WORLD Harmony, Balance Necessary to Decor Be Smart! By Ertta Haley ##»jrY HOME looks just too plain tYA an ^ drab. How can I intro duce color and design to the best advantage?” Here’s a question (which many women ask when they start to look critically at the rooms and wonder just how to go about achieving beauty they’ve seen and read about. First of all, we must consider that there are different kinds of beauty, and what may look good with one room is not proper for an other kind. To illustrate, quaint prints or faded out colors which ap pear old-fashioned would not be appropriate at all in a modern set ting. On the other hand, the luscious textures and colors so fitting in modern rooms would not add much to a Colonial home or one done in French provincial or 18th century style. Beauty is an individual matter, and it should express the personali ties of those who live in the home. With good taste to guide you, you may select those things which will create the most pleasing effects, tf you’re uncertain about the choice, fome study and guidance will put you on the right track. Give Best Impression With Single Idea The best effect in the home is achieved with a single outstanding idea. If you have a lot of ideas flitting around your head, let one of them take precedence before you start renovating. Too many ideas, even though good, can ruin the room's decor because they will Use * single pattern .... Create a confused impression. If you are using pattern in the room, you are safest in introduc ing it in the drapes. Stripes, checks, plaids or dots are safest to use if you are inexperienced. Fern and foliage patterns are often among the best designed. Stylized patterns and geometric patterns are fre quently desirable. Good period pat terns are frequently available for period rooms, and these are fairly easy to select. If you have a valuable Oriental rug, however, you do not want to Introduce either too much pattern pr color in the draperies. In this case, the rug is the main item in the room, and other furnishings should be as plain as possible to Easily Cleaned Drapes These handsome draperies of delicate color on a pure white background do away with all concern about grime, sun and rain. Made of vinylite plastic drapery material in decorator colors and designs, they can do much toward putting attractive window treatments within the reach of modest budgets. Avail able in a host of patterns, both ready-made and by the yard, the material wipes clean with a damp cloth. It may be used for bedspreads, dust ruffles and dressing table skirts as well as for draperies. create the proper background for highlighting the rug. Walls, Upholstery May Carry Design Patterned drapes look best against a background of plain, painted walls, but if you feel that a certain wallpaper reflects your personality best, by all means use it. Then, pick out one or two of the wall paper colors and use in the drapes. These should be plain so as not to introduce too much design into the room which is apt to look quite a bit smaller with a patterned wall. Certain geometric prints or quaint calico designs are at their best lor To achieve unity in rooms. upholstery. Here again, let this be the only pattern in the room, with drapes and rugs on the plain side. This, you may feel, makes for too much of a plain impression, but it is part of the over-all impression you are creating. The rug may have interesting texture, even though ■THE READER'S COURTROOM- Wife Support-Double Trouble May a Man be Forced To Support Two Wives At the Same Time? -By Will Bernard, LLB, A young couple were divorced, and the wife was granted a monthly sum as alimony. After a few years, the man remarried. Finding it dif ficult to support both wives, he asked the court to relieve him of his alimony payments. However, when it appeared that the first wife had no other source of income, the court ruled that the husband must ^continue making the payment. The judge said: ‘‘A man may not shun the marital obligations undertaken in one relationship by contracting others!” • * • (s a Hospital to Blame For Letting a Smallpox Patient Escape? A man caught smallpox and was confined to a special wing of a pri vate hospital on the outskirts of town. One night the man’s nurse fell asleep on the job, and the deliri ous patient wandered out into the fields. He finally was picked up at a farmhouse—but not until he had passed the dread disease on to the farmer. After the farmer had re covered, he sued the hospital for damages. The hospital protested that it wasn’t responsible for the acts of a delirious patient, but the court disagreed and granted the farmer’s claim. The judge said the hospital was just as much to blame as a circus would be for letting a vicious animal loose on the streets! May a Chef Collect Compensation if Assaulted By the Dishwasher? During the ^breakfast rush, a restaurant chef became annoyed by a mounting stack of dirty dishes. He told the dishwasher to move them out of his way, but the latter was slow to comply. When the chef grew more insistent, the dishwasher became very angry and finally gave his tormentor a jolting uppercut to the jaw. The chef was injured, and put in a claim for workmen’s com pensation. At the hearing the res taurant owner opposed the claim, saying that the dispute was purely a personal matter between the two employees. But the court granted the diet an award. • • • Do Barmaids Have the Same Rights as Bartenders? The owner of a barroom decided to economize by having his wife help him at the bar. As it hap pened, there was a local law pro hibiting the employment of women to serve liquor. Somebody reported the matter to the police—and the man was arrested. At the trial, he insisted that the law was uncon stitutional because it discriminated against women for no good reason. If men can serve whiskey, he de manded, why can’t women? But the court saw things differently and found the man guilty as charged. The judge pointed out that the law was designed to prevent “the hilar ity and disturbance so often caused by the combination of wine, women, and song!” done in a single, solid color, and this may be true of the drapes, too. One or two colors in a room are far more effective than three or four. The colors which are related in rugs, upholstery and drapery are essential for beauty, which to a great extent depends upon the principles of unity, balance and harmony. Even though a home is complete ly free from prints, it can still be a thing of rare beauty. So much in terest in weaves and textures in various fabrics are available to day, that beauty may lie in them. Whenever you choose prints, be certain that the print suits the fab ric. Certain prints may be too heavy for sheer fabrics while others may be too fragile for heavy mate rials. Feel, as well as see them. How Best to Shop For Curtains, Drapes Too much money should not be spent on curtains and drapes since these should be changed every five years or so to keep the windows looking attractive. The cost should also be economical since so much more has to be spent on the other furnishings of the ream. This is the season when the range of novelty handbags is so large that yon can even match your favorite spectator sports footwear with a compan ion bag. Sketched here is a com bination of wheat colored linen trimmed in brown suede. At the upper left is one of the newest of the novelty bag styles, a school lunch basket of intrigu ing straw in a fine, almost fab ric-like weave. One of the nice features of these bags is that you’ll find them nicely lined with good fabric as well as carefully finished in details. KATHLEEN NORRIS New Start Is Always Available One of the blessed miracles of life is that we can always make a fresh start. In moments of depression, of course, that is exactly what you feel you cannot do. That’s one rea son why they are moments of de pression. But the truth is that no matter how hopelessly tangled, how fixed and unchangeable the circum stances in which you find yourself may be, there is always the divine right to start all over again. You begin this process by a little clear thinking. You ask yourself “what do I want my life and myself to be, and what is the first step toward realizing that ideal?” You may not be able to see the outcome, or indeed even the second step, but the first is there before you if you can recognize it. Considers Suicide Take the case of Lauranna Jack- son, for example. Lauranna’s af fairs have become so miserably unsatisfactory that she cannot see any way out—except suicide, and she says she hasn’t the courage to try that. “I am 38, healthy, good looking and smart enough to have kept several good jobs at different times," says Lauranna’s long let ter. “At 22 I married the man who was imtnediately ahead of me in the office, and four years later our daughter, now 10, was bom. That year Keith went to the South Paci fic and I went back to my mother and my job. Those were busy, prosperous years for my little Sharon and me, but when Keith came back I was ready to return to the old basis. "... broken in health and spirits.” However, he was so completely changed that after much quarrel ling and making-up and quarrelling again, we got a divorce. My mother died at this time, and Sharon went to her other grandmother. Two years ago I married again, a man who promised me every comfort, and agreed that I should have my own daughter back. He has two daughters, now aged 14 and 11, by an earlier marriage, and I have tried to do my duty by them. They have been badly spoiled and are difficult to handle, and financial reverses have made it advisable for me to resume my office position. My husband, cheated by his partner and unlucky in investments, is broken in health and spirits and may have to retire. Not Happy With Mother “Sharon has visited us, but is not happy here, and assures me that she is well treated in her grand mother’s comfortable home. And the most unwelcome prospect of another baby’s arrival has just about wrecked my nerves. I find myself faced with the prospect of stopping work—stopping paid work, that is—but working as an actual servant in this inharmonious household, and replacing my own child with two utterly undisciplined little girls. Moreover, presently there will be the exacting care of a small baby when our finances are unable to stand the strain of pres ent expenses. What can I do to extricate myself from this slough of despondency, bad nights, quick temper, anxiety, and the dread of fresh responsibil ities when my baby is born? There must be a solution, I’m still sane enough to believe that. For I feel as if I could not stand this situation any longer.” Here is one more case of an im pulsive woman, herself undiscip lined, who builds up trouble through long years, and expects to escape from the result of her actions in a matter of days or weeks. Trouble has to be unravelled the way knitting does. You have to go right back to the wrong stitches, and start over from there. Lau ranna’s predicament wouldn’t seem trouble at all to half the women of the world. Thousands of discour aged husbands have been helped along by a wife’s courageous ex ample to the rebuilding of fortune. This is an everyday story with the right man and woman. New babies arrive every day by the hundred, all over the big world, under circumstances infinitely more distressing than these. Small girls are trained to be gentle and useful under the influence of a good example. And making her home a place of harmony and interest is the quick est and the unfailing way for Lauranna to lure little Sharon back into it. The important problem in the pic ture is Lauranna herself. She's been shirking all along the line. 'Other Inspires Book Blondes, Housecoats Feature New Novel NEW YORK.—Thanks to a beau tiful blonde and a $2.98 housecoat, novelist Isabel Moore expects to net $20,000 this year. They inspired her new book, “The Other Woman.” Miss Moore confessed that she’s had three unfortunate careers and a like number and quality of mar riages. She said: “Maybe people won’t think that record qualifies me to speak . . . “But I think the trouble with most married women is that they wear cheap housecoats, don’t pay attention to beautiful blondes, pre pare too few breakfasts for their husbands, and think they’ve made a supreme sacrifice when they take the children to the dentist.” The young novelist speaks her mind frankly from a Cheery Gar den apartment in suburban New York, where she lives with a midas- touch typewriter and two pretty daughters who adore her writing. She tells the story of how—as “a not-too-exemplary wife”—she hap pened on a best-seller inspiration. “It came on a spring-house cleaning morning,” she recalls, “when I was working like mad, wearing chipped nail polish and a $2.98 housecoat that didn’t fit. Up to the door came a blonde with glamour and a desire to see an old friend—my husband.” Luckily. Isabel grins, her hus band was off on a week-end trip and the blonde had only one day in town. But after the girl left, novelist Moore ran upstairs, studied her self in a mirror, threw away the housecoat and went on a diet. A month later, combining shock and imagination, she began writing her best book, “The Other Woman.” This experience has paid off in sale of the title to Warner Brothers in Hollywood, sale of the novel to Bantam Books—and a petite new figure for Miss Moore. At age 37, in face, she looks younger than she did in pictures taken 21 years ago when she started her first career as a trapeze artist for Sells-Floto circus in New York. She took that job, she says, be cause she had “courage, but n* brains.” MIRROR Of Your MIND 'Fussing' Won't Get Service By Lawrence Gould Is making a fuss the way to get good service? Answer: Only for the moment, though there are times when it may be necessary. For at bottom, grownups react much like chil dren. If you scare a child into behaving, he will disobey you just as soon as he thinks he can get away with doing so, whereas if he knows that he can count on your approval when he’s good, he’ll do almost anything to please you. Unless he is “soured,” the fellow who knows you can tell good serv ice from bad will usually work his hardest for you because he also is aware that you will give him crit- :al appreciation for a good job. mm Is it possible to be human”? Answer: Fundamentally, you can’t be anything BUT human. Regardless of race, sex, or ances try, every human being has the same instinctive “drives” or urges, and the only difference between one person and another is in what he does about them. A drive may be repressed (which distorts, but does not kill it); expressed in its primitive form, regardless of con sequences: or “adjusted to real ity” in such a way as to bring satisfaction to oneself and others. The ‘ f too human” person is one unable or afraid to “adjust.” Can a “heart attack” be a blessing? Answer: Yes, maintains novelist Charles Yale Harrison in "his re cent book, “Thank God for My Heart Attack!” A close brush with death gives you a new sense of the meaning and potentialities of life, while the “warning” it provides may help you to live longer than you otherwise would by making you recognize your limitations. The author’s account of his expe rience and reactions as a victim of coronary thrombosis is a nota ble example of the way in which a basically healthy-minded per son may adjust himself to a phys ical and emotional shock. LOOKING AT RELIGION A By DON MOORE §ir#; * #rj fHE R’PAL MEANING OP THB GTRANGtE MARKING FOUNP ON 1HE CLOTHEG IN THF^ARLY CHRISTIAN ERA -HA9 NEVER BEEN DISCOVERED! ‘J’HE LADPEf?. WALL, X- GROUHD FORM ATKIAN6LE WHkTH IT WAG CONSIDERED A A SACRILEGE. « TO BREAK / Some Cnurcneg built IN THE Ml POLE AGEG HAP SPECIAL ENTRANCES CONGTRUCTEP FOR THE pgVlLl KEEPING HEALTHY Jusl 'Enough' Food Isn't Enough By Dr. James W. Barton SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS W HILE SOME COUNTRIES most ly are interested in getting “enough” food to eat, there are others—United States and Canada particularly—who are most in terested in getting enough of the right “kinds” of food to maintain physical and mental strength in adults and, in addition, proper growth in children. One of the few benefits obtained from World War II was the em phasis placed on the proper diet for the armed forces and also for civilians at home doing their part to win the war. There was no lack of food in the United States and Canada. In fact, so abundant was the supply that in order to make it more attractive to the eye and taste, food manu facturers left out important food elements (vitamins and minerals), with harmful effects upon the structures and working processes of the body. That is why we see these food elements being added to bread, milk and other dairy prod ucts. Research workers have shown that through delay In marketing food Ibses much of its nutritional value, as does keeping food in the kitchen instead of in the refrigera tor. As some of the valuable food ele ments are not eaten in the home by children, our school authorities —recognizing the importance of food to growing children—now sup ply school lunches outlined by food experts. In addition to keeping the child robust physically, it has been found that where these especially pre scribed school lunches are eaten regularly, the children are more in terested in their lessons, are bet ter behaved and attend more reg ularly. As boys at school, we thought that "domestic science,” as taught to the girls, was just a play hour. We have only to think of the school lunch to realize that the training of the young girl in the right kinds of food to eat, their preparation and preservation before use, will mean much to her home and its health and happiness. HEALTH NOTES While some physicians state that allergy often is blamed for symp toms that are not caused by al lergy, other physicians are finding that allergy causes symptoms the cause of which cannot be explained in any other way. * • • Never neglect the common cold. It may often be the forerunner of When an indamation occurs in the muscles, it is called myalgia; if in the nerves, neuralgia. Myalgia is another name for old-fashioned muscular rheumatism. • • • Bed-wetting is not found so often among boys and girls who play with other children in group or other games, though there are ex ceptions. Junior Style Has Quaint Chan Girls' School and Party Dress h a] 8404 11-18 Nice for Special PRETTY and demure, yet nice * enough for special dates is this junior frock with its crisp white collar and tiny puffed sleeves. Try a gay flower printed fabric and add narrow ribbon bows for ac cent. • • • Pattern No. 8404 is in sizes 11, 12. 13. 14, 16 and 18. Size 12, 4% yards of 36 or 39-inch; 'A yard contrast. The Fall and Winter FASHION offers 64 pages of smart new styles, special designs; tips on fabrics — free pattern t rinted inside the book. Send 25 cents iday. $-14 yrt.: Crisp and Contrasty J UST the thing to have when school bells ring—a ty yoked dress for young that’s delightfully easy to Have the yoke in contrast finish with crisp ruffling. Pattern No. 8415 comes in sizes 6. I 12 and 14 years. Size 8, 2% yards inch; V* yard contrast. * SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN D1 530 South Wells St. Chic ago r Enclose 25 cents in coins for < pattern desired. Pattern No. Name < The tray’s the thing. If there’s an invalid in the house, remember that the hours of the day mean little except when the next tray is brought in. •— Dentist no boogie man. If moth er will take the young child with her to the dentist long before he needs to have anything done to his teeth and just let the dentist look at the youngster’s teeth each time, there will be no fear of the dentist when work must really be done. Britain Charges Belgians With Eating Work Horses LONDON.—Despite Belgian im porters’ guarantees, the 2,000 Brit ish horses shipped there annually practically all are slaughtered for food, instead of being worked as agreed, Arthur W. Moss, of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charged. “The meat is processed and mostly sold in the form of Ant werp sausages,” he said, after re turning from Belgium. “Immediately the horses on my ship were disembarked, they were branded on the neck with a hot iron and a hole was punched in the right ear to insert a number peg. The following day they were slaughtered.” , Somebody spilled the When food boils over in the sprinkle salt over the spilled to This will put an end to unplea odor and smoke. Then clean oven when baking is over. —•— When taking deviled eggs to picnic, wrap each in waxed paper, put them in an egg carton ara} they won’t get mashed. —•— Glory to Betsy! Have you look at the market basket lately? Bit* ter treat it to a good scrubb with hot soap suds. ASOOTHIKfi DRESSING -W/utSiW*— fii aim Mies in run if RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO MCNEIL'S MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS BLESSED RELIEF » Clllltl: MI HU IIIHMTIM It III till llll SUIEJ «II MH •• rtciiFltl fifel I McSIll Mil Cl., 1m. JMUinillt «, nr &&SPS, Wishes America’s favorite ready-to-eat rice cereal. Oven-fresh! Kellogg- fresh! So crisp they snap! crackle! pop! In milk. Nourishing. Good! 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