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■ _— THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Renovating Clothes Aids Ward robe Budget By Ertta Haley ** starUing change in the fashion picture, many women will feel quite free about wearing their last year’s clothes without any changes and few additions to the wardrobe. A bit of sharpening here and there on last year’s clothes, how ever, will work wonders. The few hours spent on clothes and fitting can even work a miracle which all women can appreciate: deft re modeling can change last year’s look into this year's. Although skirts were somewhat shorter last year than during the previous season, they are now con siderably shorter, with fourteen inches being the ideal length. How ever, as you may have noticed, many of last year’s dresses were still quite long, especially in com parison with current new styles. Pocket interest, too, was evident, but not nearly so marked as at present. The same is true of neck lines. We had those which plunged and those which climbed high, but they were rather simple in their lines as well as without some of the current decorative features. Pleats were present, too, but most of the types now being shown are the stitched down variety. Ev-'n with pleats, skirts have a clinging, graceful and slenderizing effect. You don’t have to be a genius with clothes to, see the remodeling possibilities in these different situa tions. And wouldn’t it be worth a Fringe Interest Black and shocking pink checked wool are used by Joset Walker in this dress, with black wool fringe trimming the wide collar and three- quarter sleeves, and down the bodice. The new length skirt shows slenderness and grace with its inverted front pleat. the hem is not bulky. Use the old tape if it’s still in good condition but remove and resew it before turning the hem. Full skirts which were so popular last year are being used for eve ning only. Many of the full skirts can be cut according to a pattern so they carry the new look. On others it may be possible to em ploy stitch-down pleats or gathers, so they give the effect of slimness. Whatever is done to the full skirt should be done with consid * Shorten your old skirts ' . . . few hours of fitting and sewing to convert last year’s clothes into fashionable things for the current season? For those of you who say yes, we have some fashion tips that will work an amazing transforma tion in the wardrobe that you’ll be proud to wear with a refreshing alertness and handsome pride. Several Methods Employed For Shortening Skirts Those of you who have some of the slender skirts of last year will find they fit in nicely with the new plans since that is the look design ers have been achieving in their clothes. Remove the old hem carefully and slowly so as not to catch or cut the material. Then measure the length of the skirt, or better i still, enlist some help. Fourteen | inches from the floor is the ideal J length, but this may vary slightly | eration of the top, since the dress one way or the other, whichever! must be harmonious. Check new Stitch down pleats for neiv fashions. way looks best on you. If much shortening is needed, you’ll have to cut the material so fashions and see what hints you can copy for your particular dress. For the skirt which is not quite THE READER'S COURTROOM-- Wife of Arsonist Is Innocent -By Will Bernard, LL.B- May a Wife be Punished For Her Husband's Crime? The wife of a druggist went to pick him up at his store late one night. While she waited for him at the counter, he went to the base ment, poured kerosene on some rags, and started a fire. Then they left. The store burned almost to the ground. However, an investigator for the insurance company figured out what happened, and the couple were arrested for arson. The court decided that the druggist was in deed guilty — but his wife was not. The judge explained that, even though she was at the scene of the crime and probably knew what her husband was up to, she still hadn’t actually lifted a finger to help him. • • • A man got on a train without a ticket, and, when the conductor came along, flatly refused to pay for his passage. The conductor an grily dragged the man to the door and unceremoniously shoved him out — even though the train was already on its way. The man later had the conductor arrested on a charge of assault and battery. The conductor’s excuse was that the train “wasn’t going very fast,” but the court held him guilty anyhow. The judge figured that the pas senger deserved more courtesyl A crotchety old bachelor became very angry whenever the children in the neighborhood got onto his property. One day he spied a boy climbing over the fence into his yard. As the boy dropped to the ground, the old man sicked his bulldog on the intruder. The boy was badly bitten, and later sued the bachelor for damages. The man insisted that the young “tres passer” had gotten only what he deserved but the court didn’t see it that way. The judge held the man responsible. * • • If a Man Puts on a Disguise And Scares Somebody, Is He Legally Liable? One evening, a mischievous young man decided to “have a little fun.” He dressed himself in women’s clothing, donned a veil, picked up a parasol, and went tap ping his way over to his neighbor’s house. The lady next door, evi dently sensing something peculiar in the approaching figure, ran screaming to her husband. But when the husband seized a baseball bat and rushed forward to do bat tle, the prankster hastily made his identity known. The woman was so upset by the incident that she sued the young man for assault. How ever, the court decided that no as sault had been committed. The judge said that, far from being ma licious, the young man was only trying to be playful!” so full, but which still has a swing and flare to it, here’s a trick. Take a tuck, the size of which is indi cated by the length, a few inches from the hem of the skirt. If this can be done properly, you’ll find that it’s a very new and easy way to shorten the skirt. Incidentally, if your closet holds clothes from several seasons, you might look over those which could not be lengthened sufficiently for the last two years, and see if some fashion tricks wouldn’t put them into use now. Decorative Features Alter Many Dresses Picturesque collars and cuffs are very much a part of the new fash ion picture, and simple tricks may be employed for refreshing old clothes. If you have enough material left over from shortening a dress, this might easily be used to make col lars and possibly cuffs, or a pocket or two. Collars are big. They may have large points; they might be the coachman type that stand up in back and plunge low in front. Some collars, especially on the classic type dress might be the small pointed type or Peter Pan variety, and could easily be car ried out in velvet or velveteen, and thus be exceedingly fashion-wise. Ba Smart! For dancing youth that de mands variety, and the busy social calendar of the college girl that does call for many wardrobe changes, behold the flame-colored cravat scarf as an accompaniment of black lace. Jeweled pins anchor the cravat to the ballet top of the dress. Other ideas presented for versatility include high color chiffon shirred Into poufs of misty beauty, some seamed into an elbow length sleeve at the right, also mantilla-like lace scarves, all beautifully ef fective and capable of being worn with several different dresses. KATHLEEN NORRIS Time Will Requite Wife's Faith T HE VERY DIFFICULT position in which Anna van Marx finds herself is, like many another, only to be solved by the change of heart of the very persons whose weakness and selfishness are causing the trouble. And, as we all know, weak ness and selfishness are hard things to cure. The situation is this: Anna Is 28 her husband, Orville, who was the family doctor for years before she married him, is 42. Anna has a half-sister, orphaned now, who is 17. Sheila lives with Anna and Orville, and Orville is her guard ian, and trustee for her consider able estate. Of course, you see the rest. Sheila is lovely, affectionate, impressionable, and very much in love with her guardian. “I could bear that,” writes Anna. “For Orville is not only a fasci nating man, but his tenderness to Sheila since my mother’s death, his care for her interests and her dependence upon him, would natur ally win any such sentimental girl. But now there is no question that Orville is attracted in his turn, and for the last two months I have been feeling that I have no part in the picture at all. See Each Other “They see each other continually, when I am not present. Sheila will tell me that she has something to discuss with Orv, and go down to his office to carry him off for lunch. They like long walks before supper and when they come in Sheila will be positively starry- eyed, and everyone comments upon Orville’s youthful appearance. “My family consists of a 10-year- old son of Orville’s whose first wife died when Donny was born, and three small boys of my own. I have an untrained Indian girl in my kitchen as my only helper. in love with her guardian . . .” Breakfasts are apt to be rather hectic times, and before Sheila and Orville come in for their late dinner I have seen three children and the baby through baths and suppers and got the house quiet for the night. ‘But often—always, indeed, I am so tired and sleepy by that time that when dinner is over and Sheila and Orville begin to play gin rum my or backgammon, I simply have to collapse in bed. Sometimes I hear them laughing and murmur ing for hours. Again, if I am. weak enough to go halfway down the stairs and look in upon them, their chairs are empty, and they have gone out to the porch, or for a stroll. What Can Wife Do? 'Don’t think I’ve let things get this far,” the letter goes on, “without talking sensibly and quietly to both. Both seemed deeply surprised and amused in a kindly way. Just Anna’s foolishness. Orville asked me what I could do about it, even supposing it were the case. “Well, what can I do? Even if Orville and I separated, Sheila would still be his ward. He could see her as often as he liked. “Do you wonder that I find my position absolutely unbearable? The smiling, smug assurance of both sister and husband makes it worse. I believe they like things this way; themselves free for any amount of playing with fire, with me always here to preserve the conventions. Every look Orville gives Sheila is » caress, and every look she gives him is sheer idolatry. “I’ve proposed a finishing school for her—she was not promoted from second year high school, but could enter one of the schools which train girls for social life. But he won’t hear of it. She is taking dancing, French and skating now at a private school here, plays tennis, and gives two mornings a week to the nursery of Orville’s hospital. She asks Orville innocent ly why Anna doesn’t think that’s enough for a girl to do?” Don’t do anything, Anna, is my advice. Sit tight. Both Orville and Sheila are acting very badly, but acting as almost any man and woman would, given the temptation of her idolatry and his age. He married a woman 14 years younger than himself, as a second wife, all of which made him feel old. Now Sheila has shown him that his blood can still respond to the call of youth. Give them time. They won’t go much further, and when she meets her ..real mate Orville will suffer enough to make you really sorry for him. As for her, with this selfish, vain start, and with her wealth, she is not apt to attract the right man. She’ll pay the piper, too, some day. Keep yourself as amused and as busy and independent as you can, and be very sure the tide will turn your way. Elephanf’s Friendship Unlucky to Immigrant BUENOS AIRES.—Police broke up a fast friendship between an elephant and an Italian immigrani at Buenos Aires zoo. The man, Eduardo Nissi, 45, stopped in front of the elephant’s cage and began stroking the pachyderm’s trunk. The elephant, a female, liked her new friend so well she pulled the c<>ge bars aside and lifted Nissi to her shoulders, Friends Help Stricken Man Build Restaurant For Blind Neighbor LA CROSSE, Wis.—What would you do if you suddenly went blind? John Knebes had to find the an swer to that question, because blindness came upon him last April. His wife, Leona, had to go down to the Heilemann brewery, where he worked as cellar supervisor, and help him home. Diabetes had taken his sight. At 36, with a wife and two children to support, Knebes was helpless. But before you pass the hat for John Knebes, hear out the story of a determined wife, a loyal bunch of in-laws and 35 pairs of helping hands. The unemployment compensation checks ran out in five weeks. After that, the ICnebes family had a choice of eking out an existence on state pensions or finding another way to make a living. Leona and John talked it over. They discarded first one scheme and then another. They decided that they might be able to make a go of a drive-in restaurant. The matter might have ended right there if it hadn’t been for encour agement from Leona’s father, John Pretasky, and the urgings of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William Fries. Fries is a fire man. Before the Knebeses knew it, they had agreed to build and oper ate Knebes’ Drive-In. Dad Pretas ky, • hog farmer, bought four lots near the Knebes home, and $800 worth of fill was packed in. By the time the concrete floor was laid, there had been dozens of offers of free labor after regular working hours. MIRROR Oi Your * MIND Adventure Lure Is Weakening By Lawrence Gould Do young people today Answer: Many of them have al ready had enough adventures to last them the rest of their lives, but according to a recent survey the ambitions of the latest crop of college graduates (seventy per cent of whom are veterans) are quite different from those of young men and women before World War II. Only two per cent of them are planning to go into business for themselves, and few are concerned with becoming rich or famous. The majority have taken special train ing to prepare themselves for jobs which promise security and “no ulcers.” Can a girl who “keeps yon dangling” be a good wife? Answer: Probably not. The sort of girl who makes you so miserable that you resolve to break with her but invariably changes just as you’re about to do so is likely to have too strong an element of the man-hater (conscious or uncon scious) in her disposition to help lack adventurousness? build a happy peaceful home with any man she marries. The fact that the hatred is based on fear of her own natural impulses, so that the more she loves you, the more she has to make you suffer, is not her fault since she does not realize it, but that will not make her easier to live with. Should you tell a person he has cancer? Answer: That depends upon the circumstances—and the person. II you’re dealing with a mature-mind ed man or woman, I believe he or she has a right to know the truth, both as an incentive to follow what ever treatment is prescribed and as a warning to put his or her affairs in order. For that matter, such a person nowadays would be pretty sure to guess the truth, however hard you tried to keep it from him. But a childish-minded person whom the truth would only terrify may well be left in “blissful ignorance' as long as possible. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE 0OOK OP A V THOUSAND TONGUES * An elf or brownie isthi REMAINS OF CFi-T/C GODS AFTER CHRISTIANITY ARRIVED, ACCORDING TO LEGEND. PEOPLE OP 1,050 LANGUAGES NOW USB ALL OR BART OF THE BIBLE IN THEIR RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS! ..m- - A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS JOURNALISM IN THE UNITED STATEi IS NEEDED! 1 KEEPING HEALTHY Spanking Child Harms Emotions By Dr. James W. Barton W HEN YOU SEE a disobedient child, refusing to do as he or she is told, shouting his defiance at his mother’s instructions, our na tural inclination is to give him he spanking we assume he so richly deserves. What we forget is that this youngster is not normal, that is, not normal from the emotional standpoint, though he may have mental ability. A child who acts up in this way, may be an only child or an over protected child and has learned that by putting on his act, becom ing hysterical, he can get his own way. Children’s specialists and others who have had much to do with all types of children tell us that it is the home surroundings and the parents that are mostly at fault for hysterical children, in not recog nizing that the youngster is emo tionally unstable and while scolding or spanking will settle normal youngsters, ordinary handling will not straighten out such a young ster. IN “Medical Press,” Dr. Doris Oldum, West End Hospital For Nervous Diseases, London, states that if a child finds he can get his own way from hysterical be havior he will cling to his symp toms throughout life and may be come a “nervous invalid” if the condition is not recognized and treated in childhood. Hysteria in youngsters before they reach the teen age is expressed as loss of nervous control, crying, screaming and complete loss of muscular power resembling paralysis. In the teen age, hysterical symptoms in clude fainting and loss of memory. Nearly all hysterical disturbances in an emotionally unstable child are started by unstable home surround ings. “Quarrelsome or drunken parents, an unpredictable mother, overprotection or neglect, or the loss of a parent (mother most often), may be the source of the child’s behavior. If the parents are overprotective and the child sees any little ache or -pain upsets them, he adopts their habits to assert or call atten tion to himself. HEALTH NOTES Injury to the back can be caused oy poor bed springs, by a slouchy or tired attitude or from doing a medium-heavy task perhaps a hundred or more times a day. Sixty per cent of heart patients who consulted heart specialists ire suffering from an exaggerated or wholly unnecessary anxiety Vo q o As many patients with pernicious anemia are unable to eat the five ounces of liver daily necessary to keep them alive, the preparation of an extract of liver has proved a great boon. One of the great problems of our hospitals for tuberculosis is that so many patients leave the hospital too soon. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Daytimer Has Bright Contrast Lovely Nightwear Is Sew Easy Casual Frock YOUTHFUL and pretty as can ^ be is this casual frocjc for gen eral wear. Scallops outline the ;omfortable sleeves which are made in a bright contrasting fabric. • * * Pattern No. 8495 Is a sew-rite perfor ated pattern for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and JO. Size 14, 4 yards of 39-inch; Va yard contrast. Send today for your copy of the Fall and Winter FASHION—our complete oat- tern magazine. Smart new styles, special !eatures—free pattern printed inside the Dook. 25 cents. Ideal for Trousseau IJERE’S a handsome nightgown for you beginners — draw string style you can turn out in ‘ no time at all! Ideal for the trous seau of the fall bride—a welcome addition to your own wardrobe. ; ^ • • • • Pattern No. 10X4 ia a sew-rite perfor* ated pattern in sizes U. 14. 10, ft, 201 40 and 42. Size 14, 3% yards of 30-inch. SEWING CIRCLE 530 Sonth Wells St. Enclose 25 cents pattern desired. PATTERN DEPT. Chief. 7, U. In coin, for each * Cleaning Rings Nearly any kind of ring is best cleaned with a toothbrush. Soap and water will do the job unless the ring is badly tarnished, in which case try using bicarbonate of soda. Just dip the damp brush in the bicarb and scrub the ring; rinse when finished. < —•— Prevent Scratches Paste moleskin on the bottom of heavy ornaments and flower pots to prevent scratches on table tops. Old felt hats can be cut up and pieces used for the same purpose. —•— Dusting Crevices One of the handiest things for dusting out the crevices in carved furniture is a paint brush that’s never been used for anything else. DOES THE WATER SUPPLY DC your home run rusty red? MICRO- MET controls rust and keeps water sparkling and clean at low cost. For free pamphlet write— Southern Heater Company, Inc., 844 Baronne St., New Orleans 12, La. Easy Monsy for Women’s Cirdos, Clubs, Class#* Plan Successful for 25 Years Write for Details J. S. Brogdon 63 17th St. N. E, Atlanta, Ga. LOST MY APPETITE** LIVER AILING? Treat it right and you’ll be bright* tfsy,/t%6/Gef)/betr mmmmm • Red plastic trams. • Streamlined “Twie-let” desiga. Size: 3'Ax4'A Ins. • Wing-tip boles for canytag cert. • Genuine plastic lensts—make things 3 times largw. • FUN for watching sports, wlldllte, stare. Whole-wheat nourishment! Crisp, delicious I Asfc Mi AWL25? IN COIN AND YOUR n5. L ?“Vn. 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