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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Collar Fashions Rule New Fall Clothes By Ertta Haley «|»HERE ARE MANY changes but ^ few upsets in the fall and win ter fashion picture, advance pre views indicate. Your last year’s wardrobe will not look outlandish, but you may find yourself wishing for the new basic slimness that new clothes show, as well as some of the new neckline interest. Skirt lengths, too, are some thing women always ask about Ifirst when talk gets around to new ! clothes. Hems for fall are going !up an inch or two, but it should always be remembered that smart designers and wise women insist that the woman wear the length best suited to each individual. Favored length is fourteen inches from ground. As you see the new clothes, you’ll be Impressed with the lack of trimming used on them for the very simple reason that so much interest is centered on fabrics. Decor is provided mostly by but tons or interesting pockets. Fabric dominates every costume because so many lovely new mate rials are now available, and so much can be done with each one as well as a combination of two of them. Tooth, Movement Are Reflected in New Silhouette Slenderness and movement, youth and grace might all be used to describe the currently popular silhouette. This does not mean that Design Simplicity Cboosr soft suits .... only youth has been considered in its planning. Even when the mature woman wears new clothes, grace, youth end a« feeling of fluidity can be created. Even though basic slimness is evident in the designing of most clothing, fidlness is used here and there. However, tucking and pleats are cleverly manipulated so that they give the effect of slimness. Movement is achieved through the use of flying godets, fantail panels or giant, inverted folds. Many suits are belted and have a wind-swept effect because of bil lowing front or side drapery. Slimness is more evident in day time clothes while evening clothes reflect a flower-like type of full ness. The all-American shirtwaist look is being revived. You’ll notice, too, that the new silhouette swings to the side, rather than to front or back as seen in the past year or two. Neck lines pull dresses to one side with a side plunge or fling, while panels. A Junior fashion which will be Ideal for the girl who goes back to school this fall is this dress designed with classic simplicity. The slanting bodice and skirt buttons on this kelly green New York designed dress are fashion highlights for the season. A high neck line, three-quarter sleeves and slim belt complete the dress. godets, and buttons swing it to the other side and big clouds of drap ery heap themselves on one hip. Little period influence is seen in the silhouette but Italian influence Feminin* dresses for fall. is seen in many of the popular colors. Neck, Shoulder Lines Reveal Changes Most striking changes noted in the new clothes come in the neck ■THE READER'S COURTROOM- Drawback to Idling -By Will Bernard, LL.B.- May You Get into Trouble By Doing Nothing At All? Two coeds went swimming at a lake resort, but soon lost sight of each other in the water. When one of the girls was unable to locate Tier companion, she became alarmed and reported' her fears to the proprietor of the beach. He re plied: "She is probably on the shore — look around for her!” The man made no effort to help find the missing girl. That evening, her body was recovered from the bot tom of the lake. The victim’s fam ily later filed a damage suit against the proprietor. In his de fense, he argued that a person can’t be held liable just for "do ing nothing at all.” However, the court disagreed and made him pay damages to the bereaved family. The judge said there are times when a person has no right to stand by and do nothing — and this was one of those times 1 • • • A woman was speeding past an amber signal when a taxi hit the side of her car. Her auto swung out of control and crashed into the porch of a house. Miraculously, no one was hurt — but the owner of the house sued both the woman and the taxi driver for damages. The cabbie admitted his guilt, but the woman plead innocent How ever, the court decided she was Just as responsible as the cab driver and had to pay part of the cost. If she hadn’t been speeding, her car wouldn’t have rolled so far. and shoulder lines. You’ll be seeing large collars of arresting shapes everywhere on suits, dresses, coats and evening gowns. Forward fly ing collars and big, pointed cuffs give the clothes the movement for which the silhouette is distin guished. Normal shoulders are still fash ion-wise, but that doesn't mean they look poor or droopy. The secret of the new and exciting line is the “rising” shoulder line, an optica] illusion made by flanges and points shooting up from the bodice. Bias-cut shoulder folds and draped halter necklines will be popular. Other bodice interests include high-laced, out-curving pockets, bows, points and twists of fabric. Tuxedo treatments are coming to the fore in the new clothes, as well as the shorter length jackets and young-looking, short, boxy coats. f One of the more popular neck line treatments seen thus far is called the two-way closing neck line which may be buttoned high or left unbuttoned to form a collar. This is seen on both coats and dresses. KATHLEEN NORRIS B« Smart! If you’re buying a bag now, you’ll want to choose one which will serve you in the fall, too. A revival which will serve you just as well now as later is the beaded bag or the metal mesh bag that gives a beaded effect. There’s newness in their soft, crushed look that looks equally well with summery print dresses or the semi-dark dresses which you’ll be choos ing for fall. Another trick which you’ll appreciate for two-season use is the black bag which is touched with white In place of all-white bags of the earlier summer. Leopard Doesn't Change Spots W HY DO HUSBANDS, so often, after marriage, want to change the women they found so complete ly perfect in pre-marriage days? And why do so many engaged girls speak with assurance of the alter ations they expect to make in their mates, once they are sure °f them? Early married life consists, for such couples, in an unending war between Dick's preconceived ideas of what a wife should be, and Betty-Lou’s iron determination that he shall abandon all his old ways, friends, amusements, in terests. Whatever threatens successful marriage is of vital national impor tance in these domestically-shaken days, and this is one of the most serious threats. It seems to me that any mother or father who wants the future of a daughter or son to be somewhat secure, could do worse than warn that daughter or son of this particular danger. Here are some quotations from the letters of two June brides of 1947; one written from Montreal, one from Tuscon, Arizona, and both with the same complaint. Two Letters “Harry,” writes Joan, the Cana dian wife, “used to come down to Buffalo on business, and our court ship was there. He liked everything I did then, he likes nothing that I do now. My manner with his friends, my occasional loyal men tion of my own country, my resent ment of his mother’s interference, the words I use, my handwriting, my liking to sing now and then, though my voice isn’t anything re markable, my planning of meals— A woman was driving along a narrow side street when she came to a main thoroughfare. She no ticed a car coming, but — since it was still some distance away — she started across. Just then, the ! oncoming car suddenly speeded up! There was a crash, and the man driving the other car was hurt Later he sued the woman for damages, insisting that he had the right-of-way. However, the court exonerated the woman from all blame. The judge said the man should have proceeded with caution. • • • \ May a Convicted Killer Get a New Trial— On a Mere Technicality? A young man was arrested on a charge of murdering his sweetheart The trial lasted for several days, finally drawing to an end late Saturday afternoon. Anxious to wind up the case, the judge im mediately began giving his in structions to the jury. He talked, and talked, and talked — until 10 minutes after midnight! Now it so happened that the local law pro hibited any court sessions on Sun day. When the jury brought in a “guilty” verdict, the convicted youth filed an appeal on the basis of this 10-minute overlap into Sun day morning. And the court — very reluctantly — granted him a brand new triaL The judge said it was just as wrong to break the rules by 10 minutes as by 10 hours! . . crushed, dumb feeling . . everything! For days I go about with a crushed, dumb feeling of being an utter failure. Sometimes I try to discuss matters with him, but he resents that. He is the master, and what he says goes, and what I say is just annoying and boring.” Now here is the Arizona letter, in part. “Fred,” writes Ethel Nelson, “knew when I married him that he had faults, serious faults. He prom ised to amend them. He was, and is, a successful businessman, but without any background. He never finished grammar school, rarely reads a worth-while book, knows nothing of music or art, has abrupt gruff manners at times, pooh- poohs me when I talk of college for the baby, goes with his old crowd of poker-playing noisy as sociates, and in no way has shown any inclination to improve, or to take my constant suggestions ser iously. “I hate nagging wives,” the let ter goes on, “and I try not to nag: But I want Fred to be a gentleman. I want to be proud of him, and have him a man who will never shame or embarrass little Peter. But I make no headway and, on the contrary, Fred is getting into a chronic state of ugliness and re sentment, slams doors, eats meals in silence, talks or gulps coffee with a mouth full of food, slings his clothes about, and last week made a real scene when I spoke of the baby’s daily bath and said, before several of my friends, that he never had seen the necessity for it himself. Wants Perfect Marriage “We love each other,” Ethel con cludes. “If I didn’t love him I wouldn't bother with all this. I keep a spotless house and am a good cook; financially we have always been solvent. But I want my marriage to be perfect, and want your advice about mine.” Well, my advice to Ethel and to Canadian Joan is the same. In the early years of married life, it is salutory to remember that you two girls picked these men to be your mates, and the fathers of your children. You picked them as they were, and they chose you the same way. To all of us character changes are distasteful, to say nothing of their being extremely difficult. The impluse to improve must come from within, never directly from without. If his wife is gentle, good na- tured. appreciative and companion able, Fred can be brought to a condition so improved as to aston ish even the rather smug and faultless Ethel. She has only to tell him that he was wonderfully nice with her friends tonight, she has only to say that considering what Fred has made of himself without much schooling, it is not surprising he doesn’t feel that Peter—aged less than two years at this writing! —may not need college. If Ethel has any sense at all, she will let the far future take care of itself. As for Joan. Well, she must re member that between the two great English-speaking races there is a jealous cousinship. Harry is anx ious to be proud of his American- born wife. Her Americanisms in pronunciation, in customs, her ex pectation of finding all the freedom in her girlhood in this marriage, cause him constant wincing, con stant sensitiveness. If she’ll keep that constantly in mind for a year or two, there is nothing in her prob lem that cannot be solved for the happiness of them both. Don't Be Sorry For Tail Girls 'Stratoliners' Say They Like Height NEW YORK—Don’t be too sorry for poor Cousin Lucy because she happens to be 6 feet tall. Maybe she likes it that way. Take 6 foot 2 Catherine Bedell, New York telephone operator and member of the Stratoliner club, who says: “You’re all by yourself up there —and it’s nice. When I’m with our crowd I’m really annoyed because I can’t see over their heads. A tall girl looks better in her clothes, too —when she can get them. A lot of us make our own.” It isn’t any harder for a tall gal to get a job, she asserts, and a lot of medium sized men like to go out with a tall girl. “How do we like it? Oh, we think it’s fine. Still, we do like tall men.” Question 6 foot women and nine out of any 10 probably will tell you they like it that way. And you will note, too, that most of them wear high heels. And where do you find ten 6 foot women? There were 200 men and women as tall, or taller, at a convention just held here. There were delegates from 24 clubs the country over, such as the Kansas City Skyliners, Pittsburgh Star Dusters and a lot of others banded in the American affiliation of tall clubs. Men members must be 6 feet 2; women can get by at 5 feet 10. All of the elongated fraternity were much concerned with the problems as well as the advantages of their height. “Being tall is all right, but it has a lot of complications,” says Chester Aronson, 6 foot 4 president of the New York Stratoliners and chairman of the convention. Health Unaffected By Soil Fertility .Status Of Land Not Disease Cause Any statement that cancer, arth ritis or heart disease are increas ing because the foods we eat are raised on mineral-starved land is hokum according to specialists on the subject. An article in Successful Farming magazine contends there is more oratory than knowledge about the effects of soil fertility on human health. The experts talked to doc tors of the soil, doctors of plants, doctors of humans, nutrition ex perts and evangelists who say we are facing “race suicide.” It was pointed out that heart dis ease is often linked to diet, but not because food is of poor quality. Rather stoutness and heart disease show a correlation. As to arthritis and cancer, mil lions will call you blessed if you can show definitely how to stop them through diet. Meanwhile, it is dis honest to give the false hope that soil treatment can cure these dis eases. Other myths blasted in the arti cle are Cl) that the baby won’t have good bones if its formula is made of milk from a cow whose feed was deficient in phosphorus and calcium; (2) that the adult won’t build muscle and blood from beefsteak devoid of protein-building minerals and iron; (3) that all chemical fertilizers are poison and that compost and earthworms are the only means of soil enrichment we should use, and (4) that we are being starved to death because the grains, fruits and vegetables we eat come from soils which lack needed minerals. Discussing starvation from a mineral deficiency in foods, it is asked why we have a generation- by-generation increase in the size of the bony structure of our young people if we are mineral-starved. So far as scientists know, man needs some 12 mineral elements for growth. Ruminant animals need cobalt, to make 13. Plants also need 13 mineral elements, 11 of them the same as needed for man and animals. Except for co balt and iodine, plants won’t grow unless all the man-needed minerals are present, according to the arti cle. As to statements that some milk is low in phosphorus and calcium, it is said a cow will take calcium from her own bones and put it in her milk if her diet is low in cal cium. As that supply runs low, she will give less and less milk. But it will contain honest weight in min erals. When her mineral supply is gone, she quits giving milk and often dies from the effects of rob bing her body. A fertilized farm will produce more milk than one unfertilized — but not better milk. That’s because it produces more grass. There is no evidence to prove the grass if any better, blade for blade. Champ Milker Evelyn Frazer, 10, of Water- town, N. Y„ displays her tech nique in winning the 1949 grand championship milking title at the dairyland festival by milk ing 11.8 pounds in two minutes. The contest climaxed a week of parades and pageants at Water- town In the heart of New York’s great milkshed. Contour Crop Plantings Saves Soil, Boosts Yield Topsoil can be saved and crop yields boosted by planting crops on the contour instead of up and down the slope. Each furrow makes a tiny dam that prevents the swift runoff of water. By holding back the water, these dams allow time for the soil to soak up moisture. When contouring is teamed with cover crops and adequate fertiliza tion, top soil conservation benefits result. MIRROR Of Your MIND Wishing Won't Make It So By Lawrence Gould “Is it morbid to feel you are useless”? Answer: It is certainly not mor bid to wish you could be of more use to your family and to society, provided you don’t just “take it out in wishing,” for you cannot en joy normal self-esteem unless you feel that you are of value to some body besides yourself. But there is a morbid or neurotic sense of use lessness which is mainly an expres sion of self-pity, since it grows out of a feeling that you’ve never been appreciated or given a chance to show your real worth. You may also ignore minor ways of being useful because your pride demands big ones. Can delinquency be foreseen? Answer: Yes, says Dr. Kate Frienlander, British child psychia trist. Children whose essential at titude is “anti-social” all have one characteristic: inability to wait for gratification of their desires, which in turn springs from the fact that they have never felt sure anyone would love them and take care that their needs were supplied. The life histories of these potential delin quents show that there has general ly been some serious disturbance of their home lives during their first five years which prevented normal character development. Is psychosomatic medicine misunderstood? Answer: Sometimes rather dang erously. Because disease is an un pleasant fact and most people try to find an excuse for ignoring such facts, the idea that much disease starts in the mind is twisted into the belief that a “psychosomatic illness” is imaginary and can safe ly be neglected. But as a friend writes: “A person may develop tu berculosis because he is unhappy, but he may also be dead if he does not seek medical treatment for it.” Even solving an emotional problem will not always undo the harm it has done. That needs separate treatment. Paper Parasol Parade Inexpensive Fan JUTAKE your own party decora* *■''* tions for those special occa sions ahead. Pretty crepe paper, parasols are inexpensive and fun to create—step by step instruc tions are included for one large and two small parasols, parasol* trimmed nut cups, candle base and place cards. To obtain complete Instructions, mats* Hal requirements and finishing directions for Parasol Parade (Pattern No. 5852), (end 20 cents in coin, your name, ad dress and Pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells St. Chleage 7, HL Enclose 20 cents for pattern. No. Name ■ —- 11 1 ■ - Address - ■— LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE ZCOTLAHD CLAIMED BRIGHT CROSS (N THE SKY THE NI6HT' BEFORE HIS VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH IN 707 AP. The keeper of vjartburq castle* STILL POINTS OUT TO VISITORS THE STAINS WHERE MARTIN LUTHER IS SAID TO HAVE THt^OWN THE INKSTAND AT THE DEVIL ! THE U S AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE ARE TWO OF THE FEW COUNTRIES THAT DO NOT HAVE POLITICAL ELECTIONS ON SUNDAY/ MEK&. I KEEPING HEALTHY | Teeth May Cause Heart Disease By Dr. James W. Barton S OME YEARS AGO an old boy hood friend called me up and asked me if there was anything that could be done for his 12-year- old boy who had heart disease. He told me that his family doctor had called in a heart specialist who said nothing could be done. However, since I was an old friend he thought I might know of something. I had to admit that in this type of heart disease, inflam mation of the lining of the heart, endocarditis, once the inflamma tion was under way, rest was the only known treatment. The boy died a few days later. Today physicians are not helpless in the treatment of endocarditis, now that we have penicillin and streptomycin which render these dangerous organisms harmless. These organisms, as do many other dangerous organisms, the strepto cocci, start in infected teeth and tonsils. Thus, instead of all these cases of endocarditis dying, the majority of them are saved. Un less they allow infected teeth, ton sils or other parts to remain in the body they will live many years. Because an inflammation in the lining of the heart can do a lot of damage to the valves of the heart in a short time, heart specialists advise proper dosage of penicillin into a vein at once. While strepto mycin is also effective, reactions to streptomycin occur in some pa tients so penicillin is the treatment of choice. In “Modem Medicine of Cana da,” Dr. Leo Loewe, assistant pro fessor of clinical medicine, Long Island college of medicine, warns patients and families of the danger of further attacks of endocarditis despite the fact that an eight weeks’ course of penicillin cures the great majority of cases. He re ports a series of 33 dangerous cases in which 81 per cent were cured by penicillin. To prevent further attacks Dr. Loewe and his asociates state that they early recognized the danger of infection as a cause of new at tacks and following attacks. Dental infections are particularly notori ous as planting the seed of infection in the blood stream. It is danger ous to try to continue to keep in fected teeth; heart disease and rheumatic fever may result. 41 HEALTH NOTES ■ When the pain of a headache is at the top of the head, it may be caused by thin blood, mental and physical tiredness (neurasthenia), hysteria, and diseases of the blad der and the generative organs. ... Emotions can increase or de crease the flow of digestive juices and the regularity or irregularity of the heart beat More than half of all patients with heart diseases will have heart failure during their lifetime. With the first sign of heart failure, the physician now takes a long time view and plans the patient’s meth od of living for years ahead. ... One of the symptons now known to be caused by the emotions Is oruritis. or itching. Real Sign of Beauty Although Polynesian women lend to grow stout as they grow older, the Polynesians consider this a desirable sign of beauty. 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