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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C
WOMAN'S WORLD
Tired Wardrobes Gin Be Revived Easily
By Ertta Haley
T HOSE CLOTHES you started
wearing a month or so ago
don’t look as fresh and crisp as
they did when you first put them
on, you say? Naturally you’ve
laundered them or had them
cleaned but just what has hap
pened?
The same thing happens about
the middle of every season, be it
winter, summer, spring or fall.
Most of us can’t afford new clothes,
and probably wouldn’t buy them
for the few remaining weeks of the
summer, so what should be done?
Naturally this varies with each
individual piece of clothing, but
there are some definite tricks to
revive or restore them to original
freshness. No major remodeling is
essential, usually, unless you’ve
gained or lost weight, but some
slight touch may make the dif
ference between a piece of cloth
ing you really want to wear and
one you’d like to hide in a dark
corner of the closet.
True Cleanliness
Revives Dresses, Suits
You may have been fairly reg
ular about having dresses and suits
laundered or cleaned, but unless spe
cial care is taken, they may take
on a sort of dusty hue which de
tracts from their beauty.
In many instances, a special
laundering or cleaning treatment
may solve the problem of making
Reviv* dresses with trimmings ....
these items a pleasure to wear.
Check over collar, cuffs, pockets
and hemlines. If you find any dirt
at all, concentrate on this special
spot and make it immaculate.
If the suit or dress does not
hang just right, you may have to
do some minor adjusting for per
fect fit. This involves practically
no time at all and renders the gar
ment wearable.
Sometimes a dress simply needs
to have the hemline shifted or new
shoulder pads, and it will pick up
amazingly well.
Other points to check on gar
ments include the belt and its
buckle. These fray easily some
times and detract from the dress,
coat or suit. Mending may elimi
nate this problem; if not, revive the
dress with a new belt or buckle.
Most women used to do a lot of
changing with trimmings to refresh
their clothing. This is an old fash
ioned habit which we would do well
to revive because so often the frag
ile laces on blouses need changing,
as do collars and cuffs. For basic
dresses, you would do well to make
or buy an alternate set if you real
ly want to get the most wear out
of the garment.
Clothes which have faded badly
may simply need a bit of tinting
to restore their good looks. Tinting
does not mean dyeing. It can be
done easily in the wash basin if
Tissue Gingham
This checked dress of tissue
gingham is one of a group of
ventilated cottons for warm
weather wear designed by Ter
ry Rogers. A wide collar, deep
cuffs and extravagant flap
pockets at the hipllne lend
subtle touches of flattery to the
silhouette. The row of small
buttons marching to the waist
line helps to fit the bodice of
the dress properly.
need be, since warm water is used
and only a small amount of color
need be dissolved in the water to
restore clothing.
Freshen hats with flowers.
Change Trimming
On Your Hats
Most summer headgear needs a
pick-up just about this time, and
THE READER'S COURTROOM
Give and Take in Divorce
-By Will Bernard, LL.B.-
Is it too Late to Change
Your Mind—After the Divorce?
A young wife divorced her hus
band, but both soon decided they
had made a terrible mistake. Back
they went to the same judge, and
asked him to cancel the divorce
decree. He did so. Then, about a
year later, the husband again
changed his mind and asked the
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court to cancel the cancellation!
He insisted that, once a divorce is
granted, it is permanent—unless the
couple gets married all over again.
However, the court ruled that the
divorce was no longer in effect and
the pair were indeed husband and
wife. The judge said, if a court can
give a divorce, it can take it back
tool
• • •
A man moved into a bachelor
apartment, taking a one-year lease.
Two months later he moved out,
complaining that he couldn’t bear
the foul language of the family in
the adjoining apartment. When the
landlord sued him for the balance
of the year’s rent, the man argued
that the landlord himself was to
blame for allowing such uncouth
language in the building. But the
court ruled in favor of the landlord,
saying that he was not obliged to
interfere in the situation—just so
b* didn’t actually encourage it.
A drunken customer in a bar be
gan to get boisterous, and the bar
tender decided to eject him. He
threw the man out so vigorously
that the drunk crashed into a girl
walking past the front entrance. In
jured by the collision, the girl sued
the bartender for damages. He pro
tested that he was just exercising
his right to get rid of an obnoxious
customer, but the court held him
responsible anyhow. The judge said
that, while the bouncing was all
right, it should have been done with
regard for the safety of passers-by.
• • •
May a Landlord "Smoke Out"
A Tenant Who Won't Move?
A landlord served an eviction no
tice on an elderly widow and she
agreed to get out by a certain date.
But when the day arrived, the wom
an happened to be sick in bed—and
so she didn’t leave. In a fury, the
landlord opened the wood stove,
poured some water on the embers.
and "let it smoke." The harassed
woman finally got out—but later
filed a suit against the landlord for
assault. He protested that a tenant
has no right to remain on the prem
ises after the eviction date. How
ever, the judge said that was no
excuse for such malicious tactics
by the landlord and ordered him to
pay damages to the widow.
you don’t have to be a professional
to know how to handle the rejuve
nation. If you feel all thumbs about
hats, then the best thing to do is
to see how the trimming on the
hat is put on.
When you remove veiling or
flowers, observe just where the
stitches were to attach them. Mark
them with chalk. Take off original
veiling with care, so that if it’s
folded or draped in a particular
style, you’ll know how to adjust
fresh veiling.
Flowers which have become
grimy on hats should be replaces
with new ones of similar size and
type, if at all possible. They may
sometimes be changed slightly, but
if you’re a novice and are afraid
of drastic experimentation, safety
lies in copying the original hat.
Ribbons can be changed in much
the same manner as veiling and
flowers, either with new ribbon or
the old one refreshed. Ribbons,
usually, are fairly durable and can
be washed if handled with care.
Use mild soapsuds and shake them
in a jar. Rinse carefully and hang
to dry. Most ribbons, if pressed
while still rather damp, will be
firm and starchy, and all ready to
put on.
Be Smart!
Short on luggage space for
the week-end invitation to which
you’ve been looking forward?
One good answer is one of the
pretty ensembles that are de
signed for just such contingen
cies. Take the four-piece cos
tume such as the one sketched.
It includes a swim suit, a two-
piece sun dress, and, with the
addition of a glistening white
T-shirt, a spectator sports
dress. One of the most popular
fabrics for these ensembles is
cotton poplin, but you may also
choose heavy broadcloth, In
dia nhead, or spun rayon in a
heavy linen-like weave. Choose
from the many gay colors the
one most becoming to you.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Tragedy of an Afflicted Mother
TN A TRAGIC letter
* north-Iowa town,
from a
Estelle
Owens asks me for advice that
is painful * o give. Everything
about mental illness is excruci
atingly painful for all con
cerned, and in Estelle’s case the
patient is her dearly loved mother.
“I am 36, married to a fine man
and with three daughters aged 14,
12 and 6,” writes Estelle. “My
brother, happily married, has four
very small sons. We two are the
sole support of our mother, who for
more than four years has been an
inmate of a private asylum. The
charges for her care are $300
monthly, exclusive of such extra
expenses as X-rays, clothing, dental
plates and other details outside the
regular routine.
"She shares a room with two
other cases; with another 3-bed
ward they have their own bath
room. But naturally she is not per
mitted freedom to bathe, and all
doors and windows are locked at
all times.
“My husband and my brother’s
wife are understanding and gen
erous in this situation, for we all
love—or did love, my mother, ’ the
letter goes on. “But we are faced
now by the impossibility of con
tinuing this arrangement, and I
write to ask you if you know of any
less expensive, perhaps semi-
private institution? We could pay
a hundred a month. To whom
should we apply for information on
this point?
Disposed of Savings
“We have disposed of all our
savings, carhed war bonds, and I
am turning over every penny I
make in boarding and attending
small children, but it is not enough.
“We have determined among our
selves, and promised her, that we
never will consider a public insane
asylum for Mama, whose heart
would break if we so much as
. . . food is poor in institutions . . ,
hinted at it. We cannot have her
in our home as she has irrational
intervals when she is dangerous.
But we are given hope of a cure
in her case, as the injury to the
brain may absorb. Often it causes
delusions, but at times she is just
Mama again. Please help us to
solve this agonizing problem.”
Estelle, my answer is that you
and your brother are risking your
own marital happiness by this un
realistic attitude toward what is a
terrible tragedy.
But the sensible course for you,
the most hopeful and promising
one, the least expensive and the
most responsible, is to place your
mother in the state institution, and
begin to work for her comfort,
your own, your husband's and your
children’s welfare, from there.
Dangerous Burden
You and your brother are putting
a dangerous burden upon the gen
erosity of your mates, and it is
important to stop that at once.
Worry about money, discussion of
the waste of it, payment of out
rageous charges and unexpected
expenses creates a strain that no
marriage can long endure.
For every reason your mother
should be moved at once to the
state asylum. Terrible words, aren’t
they? But so are the facts. In the
public institution she will be much
more intelligently handled, she
will have access to modern and ex
pensive methods and equipment
not available in any private asylum,
and — and note this carefully, — it
will be to no one's financial interest
to keep her there.
It has been my experience, in the
last two years, to make many visits
to one of California’s largest in
sane asylums. There are some fear
ful cases there, shut away from
human sight, of course. But there
are also scores of borderline cases;
not a week goes by but what some
sobered, healthy, cured woman re
turns to her home. There are sun-
flooded wards containing ten or a
dozen smooth beds each—oh, I’ve
gone in at all hours unexpectedly
and always found them so. There
are long dining tables covered with
white cloths, set decently with glass
and china.
(The food Is poor in all institu
tions.) The food in the army, in
boarding schools, in boarding
houses, is notoriously uninterest
ing. In the asylum I know, my
patient complains loudly of meat
loaf and fish chowder, meat loaf
and fish chowder endlessly. The
bread—oh, that’s good. Milk? Yes,
she gets a quart a day. Jam? Oh,
yes, they are putting up cherries
and apricots now. Sometimes she
has to wipe dishes, clear tables.
Sometimes she shells peas, peels
potatoes. Every bright day she is
out in the open.
Synthesis Used
For Vitamin-A
Can Now Be Made Up
On Commercial Scale
NEW YORK —The synthesis oi
vitamin A by a new process that
makes possible its production on a
commercial scale was announced
here by Dr. H. M. Wuest, director
of research at the Warner insti
tute for therapeutic research of
William R. Warner company.
Until now, vitamin A, necessary
for the growth of children, the nor
mal functioning of the eye, night
vision, and other physiological
needs of the body, including resist
ance to infection, could be obtained
only from fish liver oils. One of
the drawbacks of the natural pro
duct was that even the purest con
centrates still had a fishy odor and
taste, which made it unpalatable
to a large number of users.
The synthetic vitamin is prepared
from a starting material named
beta ionone, obtained from lemon
grass oil and also found in violets.
It is this substance that gives
violets their characteristic pleasant
odor.
Although vitamim A was one of
the first of the vitamins to become
known, it was not until 1931 that
its chemical structure was eluci
dated by Dr. Paul Karrer of Zur
ich, Nobel prize winner. However,
all efforts to synthesize the com
plicated molecule of 20 carbon
atoms arranged in six “rings,” con
taining five conjugated double
chemical bonds, and a hydroxyl
group (OH) at the end of the
“chain” hooked on to the ring-struc
ture, failed for years.
A major reason for the failure
was the instability of the molecule
and its sensitivity to acids, light
and the oxygen in the air.
In 1936, the prominent British
chemist Sir Ian Heilbron made
some headway toward synthesis by
building up an intermediate sub
stance with eighteen carbon atoms.
But even the pressure of the war,
and the necessity for assuring large
amounts of highly active vitamin A
for the air forces (to increase or
maintain their visual acuity for
night flying) did not lead to a syx
thesis during the wax years.
SCRIPTURE: Psalms 34; 37; 46; »V
138:3. 7a; 143:8.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Isalak
26:1-10.
God Can Be Trusted
Lesson for July 31, 1949
E VEN if you do nothing else with
this lesson, it will be a good
thing to learn by heart some of the
Psalms of Trust which have been
selected for your study this week.
They are far too rich to be treated
in one column.
• • •
Who Can Trust in God?
pSALM 34:16-22.) Not every one
has a right to trust in God.
Those who do not believe in him,
do not love him, work against him,
try to break down
and corrupt those
who do believe in
him — these need
expect nothing at
his hand. But there
are three classes
of persons who are
encouraged to put
their trust in God.
One is the “con
trite,” the repen- Dr . Foreln ‘ an
tant, those who
sincerely wish to be cut free from
their sins—these can surely trust
in God for forgiveness. One who
cannot trust God for forgiveness
has no right to trust him for any
thing else. Then the “righteous,”
as the Psalmist calls them, have a
right to trust in God.
If that word means only the
perfectly and altogether good
people, it would leave all of ns
out. Bnt in the light of the
Bible as a whole, the righteous
are those whose dominant de
sire Is to love and serve God.
Their service is imperfect, their
love is far from perfect, and no
man is without sin. But if you can
say with Peter, “Lord, thou knowi
est that I love thee,” then you
have a right to trust in God. Also
the broken-hearted can safely trust
in him. Whoever else may break
your heart, God will net. He is the
great Mender of hearts. For the lit
tle sorrows there may be lesser
comforters; but the real heart#
breaks only God can cure.
• • •
Why Trust God?
P SALM 37 gives one answer: The
opposite of trust is worry, and
worry never did any good at all.
Worry eats into the mind, casts no
light, gives no strength, solves no
problems, worry makes any trouble
worse. Then the writer of Psalm
34 gives another reason for trust:
he had tried it. If trust in God were
simply a doctrine of theology or a
theory of preachers, not many peo
ple would take it seriously.
Trust Is really passed on by
a kind of contagion from heart
to heart. If there are not more
people who know what trust
means. It is because those who
have known have kept it too
much to themselves.
It would be a wonderful stimulus
to most churches to have a little
“cell” of people who would really
agree to trust God every day.
• • •
When to Trust in God
O NE of Dicken’s famous charac
ters used to make a great
point of being cheerful under the
most jin-cheerful circumstances.
Anybody can be jolly when every
thing is lovely, he said. There’s no
credit in not worrying when there’s
nothing to worry about. Although
the writers of the Bible, one and all,
trusted in God, not one had an easy
life. Read Psalm 46, for example;
It gives a picture of a world much
like ours of today, shaken to its
foundations, torn by wars, a deso
late, discouraged world. If it made
sense to trust only under bright
skies, religion would have perished
long ago.
* • •
For What Shall
We Trust God?
N O ONE PSALM puts the whole
truth in one nutshell. If you
read Psalm 91, for example, by it
self, it would seem to prove that if
you trust in God you will never die
a violent death, nor an early one;
but too many saints (and indeed our
Lord himself) had died early and
violent deaths, for us to take
Psalm 91 in that way. Trusting in
God does not mean he will give us
long life. It means he will give us
strength to match our days.
It does mean he will give us
all we need. It does not mean
we shall be shielded from troub
les. It does mean he will save
us from troubles greater than
we can bear. It does not mean
that In this life we shall be
wholly free from burdens or
from pain; It does mean wc
shall have strength in our
souls (Ps. 138:3).
Which Is the greater thing—to be
a weakling wearied by a straw’s
weight, or to be one of God’s ath
letes, able to bear the worst the
world can pile on?
(Copyright by the International Coun-
;11 of Religious Education on tghalf of
U) Protestant denominations. Keleasea
WNU Features.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
^ Bad Habit i
Of Evasion T
By Lawrence Gould
Are there people who can’t give yon a straight answer?”
Answer: Yes. You will meet
people who find it almost impossi
ble to make a direct statement,
even about the weather. It may be
because as children they were
criticized or punished so severely
when they tried to do things on
their own initiative that they dare
not take a definite stand on any
thing whatever. Or they may be
temperamentally “ambivalent”
(facing both ways emotionally)
and so obsessed by their inner
contradictions that they cannot see
one side of any question without
being conscious that perhaps there
is another.
Do deaf people feel more
“isolated” than blind ones?
Answer: Yes, reports psycholo
gist Helton McAndrew of Duke
University in the Journal of Ab
normal and Social Psychology.
Tests showed that whereas blind
children are aware of physical
isolation, deaf ones feel mentally
and socially isolated. In general.
deaf children are less adaptable
and less responsive, with a tend
ency to follow rigid patterns of
behavior, presumably on the basis
of the need a person who is un
sure of himself has to “play safe.”
A comparison of deaf and blind
adults might well show similar
differences.
Is asthma primarily an
“allergy”?
Answer: As a rule. No, Write
two members of the staff of New
York Hospital in the Journal of
Nervous and Mental Diseases. In
but two of 51 cases of bronchial
asthma was there any positive
connection between the asthmatic
symptoms and the patient’s re
sponse to skin tests for allergic
reactions, while in 32 cases the
symptoms appeared after some
sort of emotional disturbance, and
in several others emotional fac
tors were clearly involved. Even
“pollen sensitive” patients could
safely inhale large quantities of
pollen if their minds were at rest.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
KEEPING HEALTHY |
'Cancer' Causes Mental Agony
By Dr. James W. Barton
X FEW YEARS ago, if a physi-
“ cian told a patient that the
symptoms of which he complained
were caused by heart disease, the
patient believed himself doomed.
Today, most of us know that even
if we have heart disease, we can
live for years if we follow our doc
tor’s advice and "take it easy."
Even in cases of high blood
pressure and a vessel carrying
blood to the heart muscle being
clogged up or broken (coronary
thrombosis),, it is know that with
care and rest, diet and exercise,
further attacks may not occur and
that if they do occur they may not
cause death. While the words
“heart disease” and “coronary
thrombosis” still may strike fear
in our hearts, it is the word “can
cer” that causes great fear and
continuous worry, which really is
chronic fear.
In the "American Journal of Psy
chiatry,” Dr. J. B. Ficarra states
that the word “cancer” stirs a
tempest of mental agony. Because
so many cases of cancer are not
discovered until too late to save
life, the family and relatives ar.
told of the cancer, but in most
cases the patient is not told al
though he may suspect the cause
of his symptoms.
Strange as it seems, it is known
that the young patient withstands
the knowledge that he has cancer
better than his family and rela
tives; he appears to be able to face
his fate better than older patients.
In elderly patients the sense of im
pending death is ever present. Old
people fear it and are more nerv
ous about it than young adults.
While some ailments cause nerv
ous symptoms and the patient be
lieves he has heart, kidney or
other disease, the majority of
patients who really have cancer do
not "imagine” they have cancer.
It is often the non-cancerou*
patient who believes he has cancer.
HEALTH NOTES
One of the jobs of the liver is
manufacturing bile which breaks
up fats for digestion. It is an anti
septic, destroying harmful organ
isms and a natural purgative pre
venting constipation.
• • •
Physicians believe that lack of
rest does more harm to the body
and brain than does the prescrip
tion of a quieting drug.
When a middle-aged man or
woman passes blood in the urine,
the first thought is that it is can
cer. This is as it should be, be
cause early treatment saves lives.
• • •
Many ailments such as mucous
colitis require that we obtain a
calm outlook on life as the most
important thing.
Ain’t It So
Some fellows take longer to
say good-night. It's just as the
kiss may be.
Virtually all our holidays
were proclaimed by men. Per
haps if women set them there’d
be more women golfers and
women baseball experts.
Echo: The only thing that
ever cheated a woman out of
the last word.
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