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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
WOMAN'S WORLD
Housewife Needs Workroom of Her Own
B7 Ertta Haley
•pHE MEN of the house have their
libraries, dens or workshops,
the youngsters their playrooms or
dens, but what does the lady of the
house have? Frequently, nothing!
Homemakers need a room of their
own, a sort of private retreat
where they can follow their hob
bies, home management or enter
tain a guest or two just as much
as anyone else in the family. In
many houses this is a very real
possibility, too, if space is utilized
properly.
So many houses have small
rooms which may be used as a
spare guest room, or as a sort of
a den,or as a catch-all for things
that really could go into the attic
or basement. Since these rooms
are so small, few have thought of
putting them into real, busy use.
The room I have in mind can be
as small as 8'x8'. When all the
space is carefully and fully used,
this can be converted into a “room
of her own” for the lady of the
house who not only so much de
serves it but also needs it.
Here she can do her marketing
if there’s a telephone at hand;
here she can catch up on letter-
Table Topic
lit* small room for sewing ....
Writing; here she’ll sew either
alone or with her friends; or here
she can retreat to listen to her fa
vorite program or read a book
while the youngsters entertain their
friends in the living room or while
Oad has his evening fun fest with
the youngsters before they go to
bed.
In reality, the room can be to the
homemaker an office such as many
have from which they direct their
activities.
Select Room
With Closet
One feature which the room ab
solutely needs is a closet, especial
ly if it is to serve a variety of
uses. This need not be large, for
one which is 21 inches deep will
hold all that it needs in the way of
sewing aids.
The closet will serve its purpose
first of all if it has double mirrors,
one mounted on front of the center
door and one on the back of the
closet door. These will be inval
uable in helping you to fit clothing
properly when you’re sewing.
Also in the closet you’ll have
space for a dress form which is so
helpful in sewing, an ironing
board, an iron and cord, a large
box for mending, etc.
Another aid which will be ex
tremely helpful is to have six or
The beauty of the fragile des
ert rose, that all too briefly
blooms in the Mojave desert,
has been captured for perma
nent enjoyment in ail its lovely
colors under the durable glaze
of this California earthenware.
The dinnerware is shown on
brown tablecloth with a pink
napkin reflecting the pink of
the decorative floral design.
eight shelves running from top to
bottom on one side of the closet.
These may be made into drawees,
if desired, but at any rate have the
sections which can be used for
spools of thread, needles and pins,
fasteners, trimmings, tape meas
ure, scissors, pinking shears, pat
terns, sewing books, remnants to
use in mending or quilting as well
as sewing machine attachments.
If you do not feel that you have
room for an ironing board in the
closet, perhaps you’ll want to place
a card-table in the closet. Another
possibility is a board that can be
used for pressing and cutting. For
the latter purpose you should have
a board that is at least 27" wide
and 60" long.
Now available are card tables
which all fold into a small suit-case
And entertaining guests.
which would also be handy for the
room. TJiis will serve for pressing
and sewing, and some cutting op
erations. It can double as a table
for refreshments or bridge when
you entertain.
The closet might also be used to
-THE READER'S COURTROOM
Shooting Blanks No Defense
-By Will Bernard, LL.B.-
Is it a Crime to Shoot Blank
Cartridges at Somebody?
A playful youth got very drunk
one Christmas Eve, and decided
to “have a little fun.” Taking an
old-fashioned shotgun from the at
tic, he loaded it with powder and
went down to the railroad station.
As the next train rolled into the de
pot, the youth gleefully fired away
at the engineer! Arrested for as
sault, he protested that he wasn't
guilty — since there weren’t any
bullets in the gun. However, the
court found him guilty anyhow,
pointing out that the frightened
engineer couldn’t tell the gun
wasn’t loaded! The judge com-
mented: “Fun is too energetic*
even for Christmas Eve, when it
looks like a little free-and-easy
homicide! Shooting blank car
tridges at a man is among the out
door sports that are forbidden!”
• * *
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A woman adopted a little boy,
but soon decided that she didn't
like the youngster after all. Late
one night she deposited him on
somebody’s doorstep, rang the
bell, and fled. However, the woman
was soon picked up by police and
charged with violating the state's
child-abandonment law. At the
trial, she insisted that the law ap
plied only to natural children, not
to adopted ones. But the aourt
found her guilty anyhow. The judge
said that, when a person adopts a
child, she is responsible for him.
It was a title bout, and the cham
pion was taking a terrible beating.
Sensing a knockout, the excited
crowd stood up on the benches —
shouting and screaming. Suddenly
one of the ringside benches caved
in. One fan was seriously injured,
and later sued the promoter for not
providing sturdier seats. The pro
moter argued that the spectators
should not have stood up, but the
court disagreed and held him li
able. The judge said it was only
natural for boxing fans to jump up
onto the benches.
• • •
Is an Engaged Man Presumed
To Know His Own Mind?
A young man and his fiancee
each owned a vacant lot. However,
his property was worth seven times
as much as hers. One day, the girl
coyly suggested that they trade
lots with each other — "even
Stephen.” When the youth hesi
tated, she threatened to break the
engagement at once. In a panic, he
agreed to the deal — and the ex
change was carried out But soon
afterward, the girl broke the en
gagement anyhow. Disillusioned
at last, the young man went to
court to get his property back. And
the court cancelled the whole deal
on grounds of “undue influence.”
Said His Honor: “This young man
was not well matched against this
accomplished woman. She re
quests, he demurs, she urges, he
yields. The contest was unequal.
A woman can always exercise an
undue influence over the man she
professes to love!.” —
store one or two folding chairs that
you want handy in case of enter
taining.
Use Decorations
To Reflect Personality
In a room of her own, each
homemaker has a real opportunity
to reflect her own personality ef
fectively. The room can be gay,
smart, subdued but charming,
with bright or brilliant colors.
If the room is small, take it easy
on pattern since too much decora
tion will make it seem too full and
crowded looking. With a little more
space, you can use some pattern,
if this is wisely done.
A picture or two, your favorites,
of course, may be used on the
walls, but too many of these will
only add clutter. Much of what
is used depends upon the propor
tions of the room.
With lots of natural light, you
need but few lamps. If the room
is on the shady side of the house,
and you lack space for lamps, use
the pin-up types on the walls as
they will be space-savers.
Have at least one comfortable
chair in the room, as you will do
much of your work in it. Other
chairs may be added as space and
necessity dictate, but when space
is lacking, store folding chairs in
the closet.
Be Smart!
A high fashion theme that
will add smartness and ver
satility to ever so many
dresses, come Autumn, is the
dress and jacket combination.
This may be chosen in sheer
wool, jersey, tweeds, checks
and plaids with a plain fabric
for contrast. There will be
bare-top dresses with matching
jackets and sleeveless dresses
with jackets. The trend is
toward hipbone length and
simple design. In itself this
fashion is a wonderful double
duty idea, giving the same
outfit a range from daytime
casual to dress-up! Another
new jacket idea for evening in
cludes separate jackets of taf
feta, often lace-trimmed.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Aid Yourself by Aiding Others
O NE OF THE CRUELEST prob
lems life could bring to any
woman came some years ago to
Lily Drake. When her husband
came home in 1946 Lily had a girl
of 3, and a year later a boy was
born.
The boy was still an infant when
his father was killed in a motor
crash. They were driving along
quietly enough in a summer dusk,
but the man in the convertible be
hind them wasn’t; Ward Drake
was crowded against a bank, the
car tipped over, little Ned was
hurt, and the man of the family
killed.
Lily faced it, and was going
along well enough when the real
trouble developed. Her little son
is an imbecile. No one knows
whether the jarring crash of the
accident brought it on, or whether
it was rooted further back. For a
little while Lily felt as if she
couldn’t face this blow. She had
an office job at that time, received
a pension, and whatever her
mother’s slender income added,
for they all lived together.
She investigated the situation
for defective children and found
the right place for Ned—but at
$300 a month. You, who don’t
know anything about it, may ask
why small babies’ care need cost
so much. This is very special care.
Children of this type never can be
left alone. Day and night they must
be watched. Almost every child
needs a nurse; nurses are well
paid. Little beds need daily chang
ing and airing; small garments are
replaced as often as four times a
day.
As any mother of an imbecile
child knows, be cannot be kept at
home. Neither child nor mother
can stand it. So Lily tried every
thing, she borrowed money, she
"... she borrowed money ..."
tried to find some kind old woman
who would take him to the country.
Then heart-broken, she put him
into a state institution, and rented
one of the cottages oh the grounds,
to be near him. She commuted to
the city, 40 miles away. She got
up at 5:30, caught a 7:15 bus, then
a street car, then office hours and
a counter lunch. And then the
whole story backward, in burning
summer heat and winter black
ness. Then she broke down.
Convalescent, deep in debt but
undaunted, Lily began to make her
self useful in the institution. She
had "been a war nurse; that train
ing was invaluable.
She studied the children; Ned
she could not help, but he loved to
be near her in a quiet, wistful little
way, and many another child was
brought to more normal work and
play through Lily’s interest. She is
now one of the managers, at $400 a
month, her cottage rent free, and
little Jane, although aware that one
of the children in the big tree-
shaded hospital is her brother,
seems not at all disturbed by the
situation.
But best of all, in this most
heroic and satisfactory solution, is
the fact that Lily has found herself.
She loves her work; her fresh
striped uniforms, her swarms of
small adorers, her serious talks
with the mothers and guardians
who so much need her advice, and
the cheer she brings them. For an
attractive woman, obviously loved
by her charge^, not finding tham
repulsive or even puzzling, is an
immense asset in a place like this.
Many a heartbroken mother goes
away comforted, after a sight of
the long dining room with its
bowls and bibs and highchairs, the
big playroom with its rings of fat
little cushioned chairs, the lawns
and playground. And older chil
dren, the six and eight and 10
group, have been known in count
less cases to cry to come back,
after a very brief contact with the
big world outside.
“Mrs. Drake has introduced
changes here that have been copied
all over the union," said the old
head doctor to me. “Just simple
things, but things that never were
done before. We first noticed the
change in the noises they made
when they were all together. Now
that is over.”
“The old rule,” he said, “was
that they marched two and two for
20 minutes after breakfast, then
climbed into the circle of chairs
and stayed there. Any foot that
came down was rapped. That was
necessary, for they would have
torn each other’s eyes out, then.
Now little sets come down in turn,
and her nurses watch and grade
them. These are little changes, but
any change is sensational here.”
“She solved her problem,” I
said, in deep admiration.
“Yes, and no one can do that
and not solve a lot of others."
‘Hearing Ear’ Dog Helps
Mistress ‘Hear’ Phone
NEVADA, MO.—A “hearing ear”
dog is “Ted,” a terrier owned by
Mrs. C. S. Townsend.
Mrs. Townsend’s hearing is im
paired. She cannot tell when the
telephone rings without using a
hearing aid, and the device bothers
her.
But “Ted” hears the teyephone,
finds Mrs. Townsend, and nudges
her toward the instrument. Then
she puts on the hearing aid.
Britons Told
To Economize
Industrial Group
Urges Lower Taxes
LONDON. — The federation of
British industries asserted the only
way for Britain to pull out of its
economic nosedive is to lower its
standard of living.
The federation said the Labor
government's spending on social
welfare schemes must be cur
tailed. One of these schemes is
the costly national health service.
In a statement the federation
also called for leaver taxes, fewer
government controls, and harder
work to produce more without
rising prices.
It added that Labor party plans
for nationalizing more basic indus
tries, such as iron and steel, are
“distracting” the nation’s produc
ers at a time when business prob
lems demand their closest atten
tion.
The federation represents 6,000
owners of British industries. It
corresponds roughly to America’*
National Association of Manufactur
ers.
Its statement said: “There can
be no escape from the hard logic
that our standards of living, in
cluding social services, must be
cut according to the cloth we can
from now on make.
"The vast and menacing increase
in state expenditure constitutes
the basic inflationary influence in
our whole economy.
“It is this which bears most
heavily upon production costs and
is one of the most serious handi
caps to the future of British trad*
and to the living standards of mi*
people.”
SCRIPTURE: Psalms S:l; 23:1: IS
IS; 91:0-1); 103:8-13; 110:1; 118:23-23;
Matthew 21:15-18, 38-42; 22:41-45; Luke
24*44
DEVOTIONAL READING: Mark
14:12-16. 22-26.
Jesus and the Psalms
Lesson for September 11, 1949
S OME parts of the Old Testament
Jesus never once mentioned.
Others he quoted again and again.
Could this be because some parts
were more helpful to him than
others? At any rate, the Psalms
were one section of his Bible
which he often quoted.
• • •
Worship
O NE USE Jesus made of the
Psalms was in public wor
ship. Whenever he went up to the
Temple he would join in singing
or in listening to
the great choirs
singing these an
cient hymns. Many
of our own best
loved hymns, while
not direct trans
lations, are based
on Psalms. For
example, “Still,
Still With Thee”
is from Psalm 16; Dr. Foreman
“God Is My Strong
Salvation” from Psalm 27; “The
King of Love” from Psalm 23; "O
Worship the King” from Psalm 104.
In private worship also we know
Jesus used the Psalms. One of the
Hebrew names for them was “The
Book of Prayers,” and Jesus, like
many another who has loved these
Psalms, found in them the natural
expression of what was deepest in
his heart when he turned toward
his Father in heaven.
A striking proof of this
comes from the story of Cal
vary. The cry, “My God, why
hast thon forsaken me?” Is a
quotation from Psalm 22:1, and
“Into thy hands I commend
my spirit” is from Psalm 31:5.
Thus, two out of three prayers
he uttered in his last moments
were from the Psalms. So the
reader today, pondering in a quiet
moment these immortal poems,
either from the printed book or bet
ter yet, as Jesus did, from the
treasures of memory, may often
find in them prayers which seem
breathed from his own mind and
to which he need only say. Amen,
• • •
Truth about God
J ESUS also found in the Psalms
a revelation of truth. It would
be too much to say that Jesus de
rived his ideas of God from the
Psalms. But certainly some of the
great teachings about God which
we hear from Jesus we can read
already in the Psalms.
Jesus did not use the Psalms
stupidly, of course. He would
never have supposed that you
could take just any sentence
about God out of some Psalm
or other, and quote it as the
last word about God.
For instance, during his tempta
tions the thought was suggested
to him that he could jump off a
high building and not be hurt; had
not God promised just that in a
Psalm? Now it is true that Psalm
91:9-12 does say that God will keep
you from “dashing your foot
against a stone” but Jesus knew
that does not mean that God will
guarantee to keep you out of
trouble or harm no matter how
foolish you are!
• • •
Christ in the Psalms
J ESUS found in the Psalms also
prophecies. There is a rather
thin line between illustration and
prophecy.
For instance, when the Jerus
alem boys and girls were making
such a noisy welcome for him, and
the dignified priests were protest
ing, Jesus quoted Psalm 8:2 in de
fense of the children: “Out of the
mouths of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise.”
Did he mean that the Psalm
ist had predicted that very
occasion, or did he mean that
the Psalm expressed * truth
always good.
At all events, we do know that
Jesus often took a Psalm, or a part
of one, as a prophetic picture of
himself. He knew himself to be the
true King of Mankind, "the Lord’s
Anointed,” as his use of Psalm
110:1 plainly shows.
Yet he also knew that he must
pass through suffering to his
throne (Luke 24:26). When the
leaders of his people rejected him
he was not surprised, for he
thought at once of Psalm 118:22-23.
When he hung on the cross, and
saw the soldiers gambling for his
clothes. Psalm 22:16-18 would sure
ly come into his mind.
And can we doubt that in his last
agonies, one who knew the Psalms
so well would not have remembered
also the later lines from the same
prophetic Psalm? It begins with
the tragic question—Why? But it
rises to a song of triumph—"When
he cried unto him, he heard!”
r (Copyright by the International Coun
cil of ReUgloua Education on behalf af
10 Protestant denominations. Released
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MIRROR
Of Voor
MIND
^ ^ Reason Retreats
In Face of Love
By Lawrence Gould
Can you keep a girl from “throwing herself away”?
Answer: Rofely. If you give her
concrete proof that the man she’s
in love with is a scoundrel, that
may stop her marrying him, though
she’s more apt to resent it than be
grateful for it. But a girl who loves
a man you think unworthy of her
usually loves him (unconsciously)
for the very qualities you disap
prove of. He appeals to the re
pressed side of her nature, whose
existence, as a “nice girl,” she is
unaware of. Marrying him pro
vides an opportunity to gratify this
side of herself, and at the same
time, repudiate it by trying to “re
form” him.
D* aggressive people develop
high blood pressure?
Answer: As a rule, no, a com
mittee headed by Dr. Henry A.
Schroader told the Medical Adviso
ry Council of the American Founda
tion for High Blood Pressure. The
two notable characteristics of the
"hypertensive personality” are
that the person is unable to assert
himself and that he tends to follow
rigid patterns (like the man who
feels he cannot leave the office un
til he has “cleaned up his desk’’).
The apparently aggressive people
who develop high blood pressure
are those who are timid at heart
and "put on an act” to hide their
panic.
Is there a “routine” In treating
mental illness?
Answer: There’s no rigid formu
la, but every successful course of
treatment goes through certain
stages. According to Dr. Eugene
Ziskind of Los Angeles, these are
what a layman might call: (1) win
ning the patient’s confidence, (2)
encouraging him to get the things
he fears or is ashamed of “off his
chest”; (3) helping him realize that
they are not as terrible as he imag
ines; (4) giving him a healthier at
titude toward life, and (5) getting
him back to his family and his job.
It sounds simple, but may take
much skilled and patient effort.
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Blood Pressure and Weight Related
By Dr. James
r P IS KNOWN that overweights (
have a greater tendency to high
blood pressure than those of nor
mal or less than normal weight.
Many of us have read or heard of
the little book “Life Begins at
Forty;” others have heard that
Osier stated that men past 60
should be chloroformed. Osier did
not make the statement because
the best mental work of outstand
ing inventors, musicians, profes
sional men, authors has been done
after the age of 60.
Referring to blood pressure and
body weight it is interesting to
know that the greatest munber of
heart strokes (coronary throm
bosis) occur after 40 years of age
and grow fewer after the age of 60.
In a series of cases reported
from Finland, the results showed
that the average body weight in
women increased as the blood pres
sure rose. Among those with high
qlood pressure, considerable more
tveryreight was found than among
those with normal blood pressure.
More cases of high blood pressure
were also found in women of excess
weight than in those of normal
weight.
In men, excess weight up to the
W. Barton
age of 40 did not seem to affect
the blood pressure. Similarly after
the age oL-60 excess weight did
not seem to affect the blood pres
sure. However in the 40 to 59 age
group, men with high blood pres
sure showed considerable more ex
cess weight than men with normal
blood pressure, and overweight
men showed more tendency toward
high blood pressure than those of
normal weight.
Insurance companies have been
pointing out for years that as ex
cess weight accumulates the blood
pressure rises and that increased
blood pressure occurs more fre
quently in persons of excess weight
than in other persons.
A not :d United States physician.
Dr. Fishburg, has stated that the
presence of overweight and high
blood pressure in the same person
is often due to hereditary predis
position to these two conditions.
The lesson from the above is that
weight begins to increase and also
the blood pressure at the age of 40,
when “life begins,” because more
and richer food ean be bought and
less physical work Is done or ex
ercise taken.
While the changes of a youngster
getting infantile paralysis are not
as great as some physicians have
reported in cases where tonsils
have been removed, when It does
develop it is generally of the ser
ious bulbar type of paralysis.
• • •
Ulcer of the stomach Is common
In salesmen and other tens* in
dividuals.
You should not wait for your
semi-annual visit to your dentist
if you feel a painless lump or
thickening in the lips or tongue, or
if you are troubled with persistent
hoarseness.
• • •
Foods rich in minerals end vita
mins are milk, cheese, leafy veg
etables, meat, whola grains, sec
foods.
Airing PiOMM
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want to air your piRowra outdoor*!
without getting them too dirty, 1
put them inside a large laundry
bag and hang on the line.
Hatrack Technique
If you have hatracks in the
shape of smooth wooden knobs
and the hats have a tendency to
slide off them, put a stop to it by
crocheting a “beanie” to put over
qach rack. Or glue some sand*
paper, rough side up, to each
rack.
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