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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
WOMAN'S WORLD
New Fashion Ideas Freshen Wardrobe
By Ertta Haley
N EED some sparkle for the
wardrobe? A slight amount of
remodeling, a bit of new trimming,
or a flash of color will rescue many
clothes from their route to the
back end of the closet
Some women feel that it is sim
ply not in their power to create
a practically new garment from
an old one, even though they sew
well. It’s a matter of imagination,
they say, and leave it to those who
obviously have some creative tal
ent
True, imagination is a good thing
to have when renewing the ward
robe, but it’s ’ dispensable with all
the aids we have on hand. You
may need just a quick look at what
the stores are showing, a glance
at some of the new styles and a
session with a pattern book.
A sense of what is fitting, how
ever, is essential. If you do any
sewing, you understand about fit
ting. Even if you always buy
Change neckline with yoke . . • .
clothes, you will understand fitting,
so you see the matter is quite
simple.
Dresses and blouses should have
material in good enough condition
to remodel for satisfying results.
You may have to invest in some
new material, trimming, buttons
or patterns, and it’s not budget-
wise to spend either money or
time on material that isn’t Worth
remodeling, no matter how much
you’ve liked the garment in the
past.
Refitting Saves
Many Garments
Dresses and blouses which fit
well will rarely be delegated to
the deep, dark corners of a closet.
Doesn’t it stand to reason that
clothes should fit you well so that
you’ll get the most out of them?
Good fit simply means that you
look pleasing in your garment.
This should not be too loose so that
you have a sack-like effect, al
though if some proportions of the
body are large, it’s best to have
them fit loosely enough so there
is no pulling or gaping, or tight
ness to show each individual fold
of flesh.
If you are on the slender side,
the garment should not hang too
loosely so it looks as though it
doesn’t belong to you. You may,
however, have soft gathers, full
sleeves, and drap.ing which is gen
erous to add fullness to the figure.
Many garments may be fitted by
you, or a dressmaker if you do not
feel competent. This may be all
the dress needs to renew it.
Patio Costume
i
Rustling cotton taffeta with a
moire finish makes its appear
ance on the style horizon in a
sophisticated costume for re
sort wear. Carolyn Schnurer de
signs a strapless bodice and a
separate wrap-around skirt
with fullness concentrated at
the side. Over it she poses a
triangular stole. The costume
also bids for future honors at
home in the winter evening
scene as well as for summer.
Change Plain Dresses
With Neckline or Color
Every once in a while we look
at a dress and wonder how we
could ever have chosen something
so plain or severe. This is easily
remedied.
Lace yokes are being used ex
tensively on the new fashions and
And skirt with a drape.
may be readily inserted on a plain
dress which would give it the prop
er background.
Patterns for yokes may be pur
chased either as such, or they may
THE READER'S COURTROOM-
Hold Temper in Court
-By Will Bernard, LLBw
May a Person Lose His
Temper in a Courtroom?
A carpenter and his neighbor had
an argument about the ownership
of a dog, and the dispute was finally
taken to court. When the neighbor
took the witness stand, he was
asked whether he honestly believed
the dog was his. He replied: “Posi
tively yes!” Enraged, the carpen
ter seized a stick and smacked bis
adversary across the cheek! The
victim promptly filed a damage
claim against the hot-headed car
penter. The latter pleaded that the
neighbor’s answer "made me mad,”
but the court decided that wasn’t
a very good excuse. Holding the
carpenter liable, the judge said that
such fiery displays of temper have
no place in a court of justice.
• • •
A widow, in poor health, liked to
take occasional rests by visiting
her married daughter. These visits,
which would occur about once a
year, usually lasted several weeks.
The daughter's husband raised no
objections, but quietly kept a writ
ten record of the cost of each stay.
When the widow died, the husband
put in a special claim against her
estate for '’services rendered.”
However, the court rejected his
claim, on the ground that such “ser
vices normally are presumed to be
gratU.”
A wooden chest, evidently lost
from a passing ship, was washed
up onto the seashore property of a
retired captain. A beachcomber
noticed the chest, liked it, and
hauled it to his cottage. When the
captain found out what had oc
curred, he sued the beachcomber
for the value of the chest. The
latter argued that neither of them
really owned it—so the first finder
could keep it. However, the court
upheld the captain’s claim. The
judge said that the owner of the
seashore property has prior rights.
• » •
Is Shaving a "Necessity"
In the Eyes of the Law?
A certain town passed a “Blue
Law” which prohibited all labor on
Sundays except for "works of
necessity.” One Saturday night, a
man went to the barber shop for
a shave. However, before his turn
came he became ill and had to go
home. The next morning, at his
special request, the barber went to
his shop and gave the man a shave.
Someone reported the incident to
the police, and the barber was
arrested. He argued that, under the
circumstances, the Sunday shave
was a “necessity.” But the court
couldn’t see it that way and found
him guilty. The judge said the cus
tomer wouldn’t have been any
worse off if he hadn’t gotten his
shave until Monday!
be part of a dress or blouse pat
tern which intrigues you. Use only
the yoke for the old dress.
These yokes may also be made
in sheers or contrasting solid col
ors, if you prefer them to lace.
Whatever fabric is chosen, it
should be in keeping or good con
trast to the dress material.
Plain dresses can be given the
scoop necklines with little alteration,
and then be worn with some of the
luxurious new costume jewelry.
For a softly feminine change to
a plain dress, you might like to
bare the neckjne more, which
would be in keeping with new fash
ion trends. Then add a ruffle for
trimming, and use some of it on the
flap pockets at hips, or on the
sleeves.
Another idea for adding dash to
a plain dress in the classic style
would be to use plaid ruffling for
a plunging type neckline, with simi
lar ruffling for the sleeve trim as
well as the skirt ruffle, especially
where extra length is needed.
Many dresses can be made en
tirely new looking with the addition
of a bolero in a gay and contrasting
shade when the original dress is
dark.
Be Smart!
Going places via car, train
or plane? Then you’ll be in
terested in the growing fashion
Importance of the linen duster.
Sketched here is one of the new
er ideas of this quaint revival,
a raglan sleeve, convertible
collar combination with flap
pockets that repeat the line of
the turn-back cuffs. It’s espe
cially adapted to the heavier
weave of linen because of its
unusual tailoring details. You’ll
want to be sure the buttons
are handsome such as large
smoked pearl affairs that re
peat the overtones of^the pop
ular natural colored linen.
KATHLBEN NORRIS
Avoid Boredom in Marriage
A NNE AND Alan Wilson are
deadly bored with their mar
riage, and just about have decided
to break it up. Nothing is specifi
cally wrong, and everything is
wrong.
“Alan is a smart man,” writes
Anne, “and I’m stupid; I know it.
I’m a good cook, I keep my apart
ment clean and comfortable, but I
can’t talk politics or business;
when I try to, Alan just looks at
me patiently and looks back at his
newspaper, without any comment.
"We have two children; I know
we both adore them, I know we’d
both die for them. But living with
a stubborn, spirited boy of 4 and
a delicate girl of 6 is something
else. Alan and I are both nervous
people, and the children naturally
are nervous, too. There is a
good deal of crying and diso
bedience in a sort of nursery
way; not scenes and beatings
and loud voices, but dif
ficulties in getting them to go off
to bed, or Alan asking ‘What on
earth is Shirley crying about
now?’
“We try to control our nerves, but
we don’t seem to be talking the
same language these days. Alan
showers, dresses, goes off to busi
ness; I don’t see him again until
six o’clock and then he hardly
speaks. Then it’s the newspaper,
radio, dinner, and he is either
‘dead tired’ and goes to bed, or he
is going ‘over to Joe’s for a min
ute.’ All wives, busy with dishes,
homework, mending, know that
‘minute.’
Longs for Life, Vitality
"I long for life, vitality, interest,
occupation,” Anne ends her letter.
“I’m doing my job as well as I
can, but it’s not enough for me.
It’s not enough for Alan. These
"... Then it’s the newspaper ...”
five small rooms are as modem,
as well-equipped as any in the
world, I suppose; we don’t like
taxes and rising prices, but we
aren’t in debt. There should be
a good many things for us to talk
about, after nine years of marriage.
But apparently there aren’t.
“Now the questions I want to
ask you are these; Do you often
hear of a situation like this? Is
it my fault or Alan’s? Would a
psychoanalyst help us? I’m 30,
Alan 34; we can’t go on for 40
years like this. Can you help us?”
My answers to these questions
are yes, I oft in hear of this situa
tion, it arises in many marriages.
No, I wouldn’t go to a psycho
analyst. In your case that would
be money thrown away. And yes, it
is your fault and Alan’s both,
although it isn’t an easy one to see.
In the first place, Anne, you’re
not stupid. No stupid woman ever
wrote a letter like this. You’re
simply bogged down in a rut that
has involved Alan and the children,
too. Five city rooms, year out and
year in, aren’t too healthy an en
vironment for two small children.
Five city rooms doesn’t afford
much scope for your imagination
or activity, either. Five city rooms
aren’t restful when a man gets
home from eight hours in a close
office.
Sandersons Solved Problem
I’ll tell you what the Sandersons
did. They had three boys, and when
a doctor told Jim, four years ago,
that not one, but two of his sons
was threatened with congestion of
lungs, Jim and Margery moved out
into the country with the speed of
fire-horses. Boredom was forgotten,
city luxuries were tossed aside.
Jim’s rooted comtempt for com
muters suffered a surprising jolt.
They bought “Hideaway” for
$5,000. A tumbledown white cot
tage, an acre of apple trees, five
great oaks and a stream. Yes, and
it was at the end of a train and a
bus trip, for Jim, with half a mile
of country road at the end of that,
and there was a wood stove in the
kitchen, dangling electric lights of
the 1900 period in the rooms, and
the bathtub was tin. But—
Well, you ought to see it now.
Paint and glass and a floor furnace
have done wonders.
The Sandersons eat their own
tomatoes and corn and fruit all
summer. Winter mud for the car
and summer dust—well, of course.
But there are three hard, noisy,
sunburned big boys on the place
now, in the place of coughing little
fellows from the city, and they
help. There are a man and a wom
an there now, discussing changes
and improvements and plans,
living every moment.
Make a change, Anne. Give the
children country freedom and their
nerves and rebellions will disap
pear like mist.
Stars' Children
Take to Stage
They Seek Careers
Like Their Parents
HOLLYWOOD.—School is out in
Hollywood and the movie stars’
sprigs are getting summer jobs.
As movie stars, of course.
Gloria Swanson's daughter is
talking about a screen test;
Charlie Chaplin’s son is starring
in a play; John Barrymore’s boy
is sweating over his movie debut.
Even Judy Garland’s baby is a
movie veteran.
To old-timers in Hollywood, this
looks like where they came in.
Joan Bennett’s daughter is test
ing for one of the biggest parts
in her mother’s new picture, pro
duced by her stepfather. Harold
Lloyd says Harold, Jr., will be in
his next comedy.
“His sisters think he’s very
funny,” Lloyd said. “They never
laugh at me. Oh, the trials of being
a father.”
John Barrymore, Jr., a 17-year-
old copy of the great profile, is
earning $150 a week for the first
acting he’s ever done.
“The ham came out in me when
I was 15,” young Barrymore says.
“I took a walk and looked at the
stars a long time. All of a sudden
I knew I had to be an actor.”
He’s trying to see all his famous
father’s pictures now, he added.
He’d previously seen only “The
Invisible Woman.”
Sydney Chaplin, Charlie’s 22-
year-old son, is a big hit in the
'Circle Players’ “Anna Lucasta.”
He’s been acting with them a cou
ple of years and says he’11 do his
first movie v/hen they make one.
“My dad's very pround Of me,”
he allowed. “He never misses a
show.”
Fifteen-year-old Melinda Mar-
key has talked her stepfather,
Walter Wanger, into testing her
for the part of Rebecca in “The
Ballad and The Source,” which
will star her mother. Miss Ben
nett.
“I’ve always wanted to be an
actress like my mother,” she said.
She was hoping to debut on the
stage this summer, she added, un
til the family decided to take her
to Italy where the picture will be
made.
Gloria Swanson’s daughter, Mich
ele Bridget Farmer, 17, has been
talking with producers about
screen tests ever since her mother
introduced her around. She hasn’t
anything definite yet.
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11 DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms
Thank God for God!
Lesson for August 7, 1949
TI/HILE the little children are
" thanking God for birds and
bees and oatmeal, let us grown
pebple rise and offer some adult
thanksgiv ings.
Reading the Psalms
of praise which are
this week before us,
iwe get the impres
sion that these
poets were grateful
above all not for
anything God had
given but for God
himself. Thank God
for God! sings Dr. Foreman
through every line.
Suppose there were no God? He
is the Creator of all; without him
nothing else can be. The nature of
time and space, of molecule and
atom and electron, the mighty
power that holds all together; the
emergence of life, of mind, the
possibility of thought, of values,
whatever is /nd whatever can be,
is because he wills it so. That
there is energy in the atom, light
in the sun, refreshment in the rain
and power in the lightning—that
these things can be and that any
thing can be, we thank the God.
• • •
No Unrighteousness in Him
SUPPOSE God were not good? A
vast and vicious devil, his im
mense mind brimming with intel
ligence and malice, could perhaps
have contrived a universe more
enormous than this corner of one
which is known to us. A creative
devil—what pangs he could have
invented to torture his creatures!
It may be. Indeed, that only
on this earth is there rebellion
against the Creator, and that
elsewhere in God’s dominions
all is peace. But suppose it
were true that all the evil In the
world was ordained by some
Creative Hatred?—all the good
ness in the world only an il
lusion, a deception?
Suppose it were the intent of
some devilish maker of man fin
ally to destroy all his creatures, or
worse still, to make every creature
long bitterly for death but find
none? Let us thank God for God:
the God of mercy whose loving
kindness endureth forever.
• • »
He Knoweth Our Frame
L ET us thank God for his provi
dence. He did not create and
then forget us, nor. give us so much
freedom that we could destroy his
majesty or bring to naught his
mighty plan. Let us thank God for
his infinite love and interest that
spares and speeds us, his knowl
edge of our frame, his remember
ing even the hairs upon our heads.
Let us thank God that being infinite
be can have a care for the infini
tesimal, and that not a sparrow
falls to the ground without our
heavenly Father. Let us thank God
whose card for us is such that with
out his knowledge not the least of
his creatures can fall asleep.
From death and disaster we
and the nation and the world
have been saved, time and
again. Frail is the craft in
which the human spirit is
launched through this pathless
nniverse; yet it holds, and will
held, because the universe is
there by his almighty decree.
In spite of the chaos of men’s
unruly wills, in spite of we know
not what rebellions in the spirit
world, he sees to it that not one
good is ever wholly lost.
• • •
Who Redeemeth Thy Life
T ET US PRAISE God for his
“ promise and for his faithful
ness. That he has not left us to our
sins nor given us up though long
we scorned him; that his divine
patience outlasts the hasty heart;
that he spared not his own Son but
freely gave him for our sakes; that
none who come to him will be cast
out; that the God who creates is
the God who redeems, we praise
him from a heart of love. As the
Psalmist of old knew himself as
one of the children of the Covenant,
so may every man who takes God’s
promises and makes them his
heart’s own.
To take this God for my God
—this is the beginning and the
end of religion. To step out on
his promises as »n js bridge that
stands secure above all the
floods of eternity.
To trust in his faithfulness though
all the race of man were liars; to
look down the vista of the years
without fear, knowing that the God
of our fathers will be the God of
each succeeding race, that his
mercy is everlasting to everlasting
and that his kingdom ruleth over
all—this is to know him, and this is
life eternal. Thank God for God!
(Copyright by the International Coun
cil of Religious Education on behalf of
10 Protestant denominations. Released
a- WNU Features.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
^ Guilt Feeling
Makes Duffers
By Lawrence Gould
Can a sense of guilt make you miss golf shots?
Answer: Yes, although you prob
ably don’t realize it. After strug
gling with the elusive game for
forty years I am convinced that
when you miss a two-foot putt, a
guilty conscience is the explanation.
For success at golf (or any other
sport) implies you’re doing two
things, both of which are “wicked”
from a childish standpoint: prov
ing how “good” you are, and get
ting the better of someone else.
The more you want to do either,
the more childish memories of
being told you mustn’t tend to make
you flinch and punish yourself by
■‘missing.”
Should happiness be the goal
of education?
Answer: Yes, writes Dr. Herman
Noll of Goettingen University,
Germany. True education does not
ask how useful the pupil will be to
the job for which he is being
trained, but how useful the train
ing will be to him in helping him
become a happy human being. For
in the true sense, in which happi
ness means more than egotistic
pleasure, “Only the happy man is
good.” Educating children to
serve the state rather than teach
ing them to live so as to realize
their own best possibilities marks
the difference between Nazism and
democracy. •
Is it sometimes good for you
to be “shocked?”
Answer: Yes, write Drs. Leland
Bradford and Paul Sheats of the
National Education Association in
the magazine. Society. Training
supervisors often fail because the
trainee has a “vested interest” in
certain types of behavior and does
not know how to deal with any
others. He should be “shocked out
of his complacency” and made to
realize that his standards are not
universally accepted. Finding
someone you respect has tastes or
habits you were taught to disap
prove of may help you to concen
trate on things that really matter.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
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KEEPING HEALTHY
Surgery Relieves Profound Grief
By Dr. James W. Barton
I WRITE FREQUENTLY about
the operation lobotomy or leuko
tomy, used in cases of deep grief
and depression. It certainly causes
a great change in the individual's
outlook on life and is of great com
fort and relief to the family.
When this operation was first re
ported, all that was hoped for was
the relief from the great depres
sion of spirits. The fact that these
patients, in losing their depression,
often lost their sense of responsi
bility did not seem very important.
When further reports showed that
some of these patients who had un
dergone operation were able to re
turn home and be of some use to
themselves and to the household, it
was more than had been expected.
In “Lancet,” London, Dr. G.
Garmany reports the results of
leukotomy present in 59 patients,
three years after operation. Leuko
tomy proved successful in half of
the 22 patients with depression, and
also in half of the 10 patients with
double personality (the Dr. Jekyll-
and-Mr. Hyde type).
Why was there an Improvement
in some and not in others having
the same symptoms and undergo
ing the same operation?
Dr. Garmany states that opera
tion alone is not responsible for
all the improvement obtained. Im
provement also depends on the
home environment or surround
ings.
In depression a naturally good
personality, never affected by
fears, doubts, emotional disturb
ances, and of average intelligence,
is absolutely necessary if good re
sults are to be expected. Where the
patient has always been affected
with illusions, delusions, obses
sions or other types of odd be
havior, good results may be, but
are usually not, obtained by leuko
tomy.
The thought here is that while
leukotomy relieves grief and de
pression in most cases, restoring
the mind and the emotions to nor
mal depends to a great extent upon
the personality of the individual
during his lifetime and also upon
his family and community sur
roundings.
When symptoms point to lack of
vitamins, eating enough of the pro
tective foods will bring relief. The
protective foods are milk, butter,
cream, cheese, fruits and green
vegetables.
• » •
Physicians suggest that all pa
tients with severe sciatica and low
back pain should be put to bed (or
one month.
Of 100 children examined with
rheumatic fever, 33 per cent had
mild inflamation (gingivitis) of the
gums. Of 100 normal children, only
four per cent had gingivitis.
• • •
Another reason why the diet
should contain less >ugar is that it
kills the desire for other foods just
as necessary as sugar or other
starch foods.
Ain’t It So
Motorists see so many
“Speed Limit—20 Miles a n
Hour” signs, that they pay little
attention to them. An exception
Is the small town in Texas
where the sign at the edge of
town reads “20 Miles and Honr
or $19.90.”
Sign on a fancy Hollywood
station wagon: “No Rancho
Yetto.”
Milk Bottle Warmers
A new wrinkle for drive-in
theaters is electric milk bottle
warmers for patrons who bring
baby along to sleep in the back
seat.
LOST: MISERY
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