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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. MIRROR Of Your MIND Be Sincere In Your Aims By Lawrence Gould Is ‘'determination” the secret of success? Answer: Only when it is whole hearted: that is, when it does not conflict with unconscious fears or wishes. “G rim determination” often represents a desparate ef fort to keep from admitting that we do not really want the success which we have been trained to feel that we must strive for. What you really want, you’ll automati cally keep on trying to get, and whether you get it will mainly depend upon how well you adapt yourself to the “realities” of how it can be had. On the whole, adap tability is more important than determination. Will real danger blot out a neurotic fear? Answer: Yes, says Dr. Richard W. Kilby of the University of Den ver in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Phychology. There’s a “hierarchy” in our motives on the basis of which more important needs take precedence over rela tively unimportant ones when both are present The desire for self-esteem, which is involved in most neurotic problems, gives way to the instinct of self-preservation in the face of actual danger. He asserts that psychoneurosis de creased in Great Britain during the Blitz, and is rare in cold and hungry countries today. Are there limits to how far back you can remember? Answer: If you’re speaking of conscious memory, yes. What is sometimes called “childhood am nesia" blocks most of us from re calling anything that happened before we were five or six years old. But this does not mean that earlier events are really forgot ten. With the weakening of fear and inhibition that takes place in psychoanalysis, I have seen people remember thrills or shocks which they experienced at the age of two or younger and about which no one could have told them. And hypnosis can revive events of the first year of your life. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE Axotrom to bupdh&t legenp THEBE & A VAST, HEAVENLY MOUNTAIN (MERU) WHICH / iohzrs160,000 L£AGUe{i f IT IS A SYSTEM OF POfTTUNEj TELUN6 INVENTED By THE puRn-\NS. BRieay, rr consists! OF SELECTIN6 TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE - MANIPULATING THEM TO FORM PROPHECIES. ( KEEPING HEALTHY Eleventh Year Is Safest in Life By Dr. James A FEW YEARS ago we learned from records of illness at dif ferent ages that the years between five and 10 were the ones with the lowest rate of illness and death. It is interesting to learn that the age of 11 is now found to be the safest year according to the bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The first year, and especial ly the first week of life, is fraught with serious hazards, most of which begin before or during birth. When the child has passed safely through in fancy, the chances of surviving from year to year increase with each advance in age during the next 10 years of life. After this the chances of living to the end of the next year become less. By the age of 11 the death rate from infants’ diseases. has de creased while adult or chronic dis eases have not yet started. The death rate at 11 years of age is just one-half of what it was only 12 years ago. It will come as no surprise to M W. Barton learn that a large proportion of the deaths at 11 years of age is due to accidents, especially among boys. Parents soon learn that when a boy does not climb fences, jump in sandpits or play stren uous games, he is not like other boys. On the other hand parents do not like to see their girls en gage in any of these pursuits. Even in accidents in the home, where the hazards might bo expected to be nearly equal, the death rate among the boys was three times that among the girls. While the three diseases causing most deaths—pneumonia, influenza and tuberculosis—have been re duced from between 60 to 80 per cent in the past 12 years, accidents lead other causes of death by a higher margin than ever. As parents we know that school principals and teachers are doing their part in educating boys and girls in safety methods. It is now up to the parents to supervise their children insofar as this is possible in and out of the home. KATHLEEN NORRIS You are hearing and reading more about how the emotions af fect the various processes of the body, causing loss of appetite, diarrhoea or constipation, rapid heart beat, rise in blood pressure and other symptoms. • • • A visit to our physician and den tist, once or twice a year, is our b««t health insurance. Unless severe heart or blood ves sel disease or weakness of the bones of the spine is present, elec troshock treatment of the elderly is considered safe. • • • In the armed forces it was found that recruits who had lived too much within themselves, not mixing with others, became neurotic dur ing the training period for service. «xyES’M I HAVE a sister and a them,” the 14-year-old girl said politely. “You don’t know them!” “No, ma’am. You see when we were little we quarrelled so terribly that Mama couldn’t stand it, so she sent Joe to Grandma, and my Aunt Maggie took Lucile . . .” “And how long since you’ve seen them?” “Since I was 4, and Joe 6 and Lucile 9.” The little girl went on sucking thoughtfully on a mammoth lolli pop, and I sat thoughtfully looking at the little girl. We were both at a company picnic. Spineless Women Suppose my mother had been the Weak spineless woman who was so obviously this girl’s mother, I mused. Suppose she had - been so lacking in character herself that she could take nursery tantrums seriously, and had made them her excuse for robbing her girls and her boy of the priceless advantage of being together? I thought of what my brothers and sisters meant to me, and of the wisdom and gentle ness of the government of both my mother and father, and of the long years—almost half a century—since they left their half-dozen children orphaned, rich only in a devotion that all the busy years have never shaken, even for a day. The love between sisters, the love between brothers, their pride and interest in each other—these are among the greatest privileges of life. No friendships are deeper rooted, or more enduring or more fruitful. To bear these children. ". . . utter desolate loneliness . . and then toss off any obligation to train them, to develop their characters, to teach them the rules of mine and thine, and bear ing and forgiving, and sharing and helping, is a crueler injustice to them than if she had quietly put out their eyes. There’s an ugly score building up against American mothers. It isn’t punishable by law, but its re sults are so frightful that there is no juvenile court in the world that isn’t staggered by them. Not long ago I was looking into the eager, wistful, puzzled faces of about }00 boys, their ages ranging between 7 and 16. They were living in an institution. I asked the fully- orphaned boys to raise their hands. They numbered 16. Then I asked for half-orphans. There were eight. Seventy-six of them came from “broken homes.” Do their mothers ever think, as they so relievedly shift off the small helpless son to some other woman’s care,—or rather to one- hundredth part of her care, what that means to the child? What it means to have no place at the evening-table, no room in which treasure may be stored, books read, dreams dreamed? Do they ever think of those hours of utter, deso late loneliness? I don’t believe they do. They haven’t done much thinking up to this point, so why should they be gin now? They’ve taken their wed ding vow, as we all did; they’ve promised to be faithful, for better or worse, until the end. Children are a care. Children keep parents at home. Parents don’t want to stay at home. Sitters cost money. The bright, hopeful, loving eyes of the children have no appeal here. Somebody tells Mama that if Dad goes on acting that way, she can get a divorce, and put the little boys at St Peter’s. Mama tells the good managers of St. Peter’s a pretty convincing story. She doesn’t hesitate to black en the name of the man she loved just a few years ago, the man who is the children’s father. He is a skunk, and Mama is an abused angel, and the boys are herded like little sheep into the big bare anaesthetic-scented institution, and promised letters, games, presents, clothes, thoughts and love and prayers by Mama. They never get any of these, by the way. With the children out of sight, parents for get promises. We can’t have too much regi mentation in this free country ol ours. We can’t stop divorces, de sertions, selfish dads, hot-tempered mamas, undisciplined natures that break up homes at the first test. The judges in our courts of do mestic relations do what they can. The churches do what they can. What’s the answer? I don’t know. But I know that if business men and women broke their promises, dodged their obligations and threw over their responsibilities as many parents do, there wouldn't be any country. Serve Frosty Cool Food During Sweltering Heat To Tempt All Appetites W HEN the sweltering days hit us, there’s nothing more pleas ing than to have plenty of frosty cool foods to tempt heat-ridden ap petites. Mothers, too, can keep a lot cool er and comfortable while they pre pare chilled rather than hot foods, and the former can be just as nourish ing. However, if a hot food is de sired, it might easily be a cup of hot soup or a toasted sand wich to serve with the salad, for neither of these takes long enough cooking to heat the kitchen or the cook! . Salads as main dishes should be nourishing, so plan to build them with meat, fish, fowl or cheese, one of the good protein foods which are needed daily. Fill them brim ming with vitamins and minerals to keep their energy—giving quali ties high. • • • P REPARE salad ingredients in the cool hours of morning so they will chill thoroughly and need just mixing at lunch or dinner time. This cuts down preparation time when energies are low and the heat is at its highest. Tomato Crabmeat Salad (Serves 6) 6 large ripe tomatoes 1 can crabmeat K cup lemon juice 1 tablespoon chili sauce 2 cups finely chopped celery 1 tablespoon grated onion % cup diced green pepper % cup chopped pecans I teaspoon salt % cup mayonnaise 4 hard-cooked eggs, sliced Scald tomatoes one minute in boiling water or turn over heat on a long fork to loosen the skins. Peel and scoop out center. Sprinkle the tomato cavity with salt and turn upside down to chill. Mix all remaining Ingredients, except eggs. Fill tomato cups and serve on a bed of greens, garnished with egg slices. Frozen Chicken Salad (Serves 4) 1 teaspoon gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water % cup mayonnaise % cup heavy cream, whipped 1% cups minced cooked or canned chicken (4 cup blanched chopped al monds, toasted H cup malaga grapes, halved and seeded % teaspoon salt Dissolve gelatin in cold water for five minutes. Dissolve over boUing water. Cool, then com bine with may onnaise. Add remaining in gredients, fold ing in the whipped cream last. Freeze in tray of automatic refrigerator until firm. Slice and serve on lettuce or watercress. ‘Hearty Salad Bowl (Serves 6) 1 cup cooked ham, cut In thin strips 1 cup Swiss cheese, cut in thin strips 4 cup cooked green beans 1 cup raw carrot strips One of the most delightful salads ever devised is a frozen fruit salad with whipped cream, banana, pineapple and mara schino cherries. Use this salad when the rest of the meal has been on the light side, or as a salad dessert with cookies or small cakes. It’s perfect, too, for entertaining. LYNN CHAMBERS* MENU Cream of Tomato- Soup •Hearty Salad Bowl Bread and Butter Sandwiches Beverage Chilled Melon •Recipe Given A luscious red ripe tomato makes the base for this salad and may be filled with cole slaw or shredded carrot salad for a nourishing luncheon when combined with crusted rolls and a beverage. If you need a more filling meal, start off with a chilled or hot soup. LYNN SAYS: Keep Cool While Serving Summer Meals Make tomato aspic in a ring mold during the cool of morning, and serve with a chilled seafood salad in the center; garnish out side of the ring with stuffed dev iled eggs and crisp cucumber slices. Cottage cheese makes a delicious and filling luncheon salad if you add to it the following: sour cream, chopped chives, diced cucumber, tomato and radishes. 1 cup celery sticks H cup French dressing 1 head lettuce 2 hard-cooked eggs, cut in wedges H cup salad dressing 1 teaspoon mustard 1 teaspoon horseradish Marinate and chill green beans, carrots and celery in the French > dressing for at y least ope hour. Break lettuce in to bite - sized pieces in a salad bowl. Arrange meat, vege tables and eggs over the top. Serve with salad dressing mixed with mustard and horseradish. Frozen Fruit Salad (Serves 6) 2 teaspoons unflavored gela tin 6 tablespoons water or fruit juice 2 teaspoons powdered sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons maraschino cherry syrup % cup real mayonnaise 1 cup heavy cream, stiffly bfuticn 1 large banana, cut in cubes 1% cups diced pineapple 1 cup sliced maraschino Cher ries Soften gelatin in water or fruit juice. Dissolve over hot water and add sugar, lemon juice and syrup. Fold mayonnaise into stiffly beaten cream. Fold in gelatin mixture and prepared fruits. Turn into re frigerator trays and freeze, stir ring once before the mixture be comes firm. Freeze from four to five hours. Slice and serve on chic ory with real mayonnaise, if de sired. American Cheese Ring (Serves 8) 1 No. 1 can sliced pineapple Juice of 2 lemons 2 tablespoons gelatin 1 cup sugar H pint whipping cream, beat en stiff I cup processed American cheese, finely diced 1 cup white grapes Melon balls (cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew) Drain the pineapple. Reserve juice and add to it the lemon juice and water enough to make two cups. Soften gelatin in one-half cup of this liquid. To remaining one and one-half cups of liquid, add sugar and bring mixture to a boil. Pour over gelatin and stir until dissolved. Chill until partially con gealed, then fold in all remaining ingredients except melon balls. Pour into an oiled ring mold and chill until firm. Unmold on lettuce and garnish center and outside of mold with the three kinds of melon balls to give a rainbow effect. Serve with dressing made as fol lows: H cup salad oil H cup vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika 1 cup chill sauce 1 cup chopped watercress Stir together all Ingredients until thoroughly mixed. Serve well chilled. Wash and prepare all fruits and vegetables as soon as they come in from the garden, orchard or mar ket. Then they’ll be ready for meals while you have other things to do. Make ham or meat loaf and plan to serve it hot or cold depending upon the temperature. These may be baked along with other foods, then chilled. They require little heating if you want them hot. Several jars of sandwich fill ings kept refrigerated will save many a hot weather luncheon head ache. Bit. KERNITH J. rOREMAN SCRIPTURE: Psalms 8; 19: 3: 65:9 13: 104. DEVOTIONAL READING: Job 37:14 24. Singing, Shining Lesson for August 21, 1949 E VERY ATOM <■? the universe, said Calvin, sparkles with the glory of God. That is our thought for this week: In the created uni verse we can see the God who is more wonderful than all his works. The selected Psalms express four differ ent aspects of God's crc utive power. Psalm 8 brings out the dignity and the glory of man. made to be master of the Dr. Foreman earth; Psalm 19: 1-6 listens to the majestic music of sun and stars; Psalm 65:9-13 sees nature as a farmer sees it, in terms of sun, rain and crops; Psalm 104, one of the noblest poems in exis tence, celebrates God’s glory in all things great and small. * • • Mystery T HESE inspired Psalmists saw a high truth: Nature is for man’s use, in part, but it has also a value, a beauty and a splendor all its own; and it is one of the ways by which we can know Goa. What is true of nature is true, tar more, of the God who created all things. One of the thoughts suggested to their minds was the mystery of nature. Even today, with all that science has discovered, there is mystery in the most elemen tal facts of existence. What is light? What is life? What is energy? Where did it come from and what is the destiny of it aU? A common grass blade performs miracles that chemistry has not yet initated. The mystery of nature suggests the deeper mystery of nature’s God. • • • Power W E ARE beginning now to real ize, even better than the Psalmists could, how much energy there is in nature. We have seen tragic evidence of the atom’s pow er. Now we have also found that while energy cannot be destroyed, it cannot be created by us, though it constantly changes form. As the water in a power sta tion which has ran through a turbine will not climb back up to turn the turbine again, so the whole universe (they tell us) is in the process of running down. But how was the universe bom, how was energy bom, in the first place? How was the universe, sc to speak, wound up? Science does not profess to know; but religious an swers by faith: In the beginning, God . . . a. * * Beauty T HE writer of Psalm 104 was well aware that some parts of nature are useless to man; but he re joiced in them none the less. Few of his neighbors had any use for whales, for example, but he takes delight in the whale (he calls him Leviathan) just playing in the ocean. St. Augustine, in the same mood, says somewhere about things like wasps and spiders that if we could forget that they bite, we would be greatly awed by their beauty and the perfection of their mechanism. Indeed, St. Augustine, in cite of his prayers, calls God “Pulchritudo,” Beauty. Just as God is The Truth and The Good, so he is The Beautiful. • • • Law T HE writers of these nature- Psalms (especially 19 and 65) were impressed by another fact about nature: its regularity. You can count on the sunrise, you always know which order the sea sons will follow. Even things like earthquakes and tornadoes, which seem pretty unpredicable, follow laws of their own. Science has now shown this to be true on a cosmic scale. The stuff of which the farth est s*ars are made is just the same (only a lot hotter!) as the stuff in the rocks under your feet at this minute. The laws that govern the fall of a leaf or the shape of a rain drop are the same laws that can be seen in the whirling of atar-dast fifty million light years away. The Creator of all is not erratic, eccentric or capricious. He is the God of Law, for from his infinite Mind come all the patterns, known to us or yet unknown, by which the vast fabric of the universe is woven. Mystery, Power, Beauty, Law: All nature, not only the stars, shine with all these—and as Addison says. “Forever singing as they shine. The hand that made us is divine.” (Copyright by the International Coun- ’il of "Religious Education on behalf of M) Protestant denominations. Released 9j WNU Features. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Princess Dress Is Fun to Sew Simple Lines S IMPLE princess lines make easy sewing for mother. 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