THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C,
WOMAN'S WORLD
When Cleaning Curtains Use Tested Means
By Ertta Ha’sy
E VER HAD CURTAINS fall apart
while laundering them? Ever
had them look limp, faded, and not
quite clean enough? These are
things that happen when we give
curtains and drapes strictly
amateur treatment when it comes
to cleaning.
On the other hand, there’s pure
joy in a woman’s eyes when she
surveys curtains that have been
properly cleaned. Curtains like this • (
have a spanking-clean look, they ! |
hang straight, and they have re- j ;
tained their color.
Dirt which creeps into the house
via windows, as well as the sun
which dries out the thread of cur
tain material work havoc with the |
best of window coverings. For
these reasons, extra care is neces
sary to keep curtains looking nice
and avoiding the expensive replace
ment cost which they would other
wise necessitate.
Too much cannot be said in favor
of constant cleaning. This does not
mean laundering every few weeks,
but it does mean applying a vac
uum attachment to them when you
do your weekly cleaning to get rid
of the surface dust which will other
wise clog the fibers, and make them
more difficult to launder.
Curtains can be kept cleaner, too,
when windows are cleaned weekly
or bi-monthly, depending upon the
dirt in different communities.
Campus Cloche
Launder curtains in pillowcase ....
Needless to say, the curtains should
be removed as the windows are
being cleaned, so no soil comes
off on them.
It isn’t always necessary to re
move the curtains from the rods
when washing the windows, since
most of them can easily be lifted
off with their rods, thus making the
return trip simple.
Curtains and drapes should not
be allowed to get too dirty before
cleaning, since this only makes
more effort necessary to wash
them. Naturally, when curtains are
washed long and hard, they will
weaken.
Make Curtain Measurements
Before Doing Laundering
One of the disheartening aspects
of curtain laundering, frequently,
is the shrinkage. An allowance
should be made for this, of course,
when curtains are made. You,
yourself can do it, if you sew your
own. Check to see that the allow
ance has been made if you pur
chase curtains. If you alter them,
leave a hidden tuck in the curtain
which may be let out after launder
ing.
Vivid watermelon pink vel
veteen is used by Betmar for
this smart new campus cloche
that bugs the bead snugly to
avoid going whichever way the
wind blows. The hat has a deep
crown and a helmet-shaped
brim that are distinctly new and
fashion-wise.
It’s important that you measure
the curtains accurately before
laundering. Then, keep the meas
urements so you won’t have to go
through all the measuring again
when you launder.
If you use a curtain stretcher,
wash all curtains which are the
same size at the same time so you
will not have to reset it for each
pair.
For those of you who will iron
curtains, it’s a wise idea to mark
the ironing board as to length and
width so that you can avoid hav
ing the problems of too-short or
too-narrow curtains. This is an es
pecially good idea for those cur
tains which need frequent launder-
Curtains Need Special
Care When Washed
Rinse curtains but do not soak
them in water as a pre-washing
procedure. You can get a lot of
dirt out of curtains by giving them
a brief cold water rinse. Soaking
them, however, would tend to weak
en the delicate fibers, which have
frequently been sun-baked.
Filmy laces and delicate sheers
should not be washed without some
protection. In fact, if the curtains
are very fragile, they had best be
washed in lukewarm water with
mild soap, by hand. Simply squeeze
the suds in and out of them as you
would a sweater or some woolen
garment.
For the somewhat more durable
types, but still fragile curtains,
place each panel in a pillowcase
and sew the top with basting stitch
es. In this way the rough action of
the washing machine will be buf
fered by the case.
If you intend using a curtain
stretcher for drying the fragile
curtains, place a strip of muslin at
top and bottom of the curtain with
pins or basting stitches so that the
pins of the stretcher will not tear
the curtain.
Be Smart!
A clever designer, who has
the gift of making a blonse
stunning in beantiful detail so
that it virtually becomes a cos
tume in itself, turns to nylon,
thus adding a new permanence
to the beauty she achieves. At
the left is a new sueded nylon,
very soft, heavy and rich look
ing. At the right is a soft weave,
lighter in weight but not sheer,
hitherto associated only with
the finest silk. It is trimmed
with dainty lace insertion and
tiny hand-sewn tucks.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Character Precedes Logarithms
Use vacuum attachment on drapes.
ing: kitchen, bathroom and play
room curtains.
Before washing the curtains,
dust them either with a vacuum
attachment or shake them out be-
forfe washing so that you will get
none of the surface dirt into the
water. In this way you can have
your water for washing as clean
as possible.
THE READER'S COURTROOM-
Grouchy Iceman Not at Fault
-By Will Bernard, LL.B-
May an Iceman Frighten
Children Away from His Truck?
An iceman was in a very grouchy
mood one morning while making
his rounds. As he walked out of a
customer’s back yard, he noticed
several children gathered around
his truck — grabbing little pieces
of ice. "Hey, you!” the iceman
roared threateningly. One little boy
was s* frightened that he ran into
the street — right in front of a
passing car. The child was injured,
and later a lawsuit was brought on
his behalf against the iceman.
However, the court decided that the
man wasn’t to blame for the mis
hap. The judge said the iceman
had a right to warn the children
away from the truck — and it
wasn’t, his fault that one boy ran
the wrong way.
• • •
A man went to a barber shop to
have his shoes shined. As he was
getting down from the stand, he lost
his balance and tumbled to the
floor. When he got home and
counted his bruises, the man de
cided he had a damage claim
against the barber. He filed suit—
but the judge threw the case out of
court The judge decided that a
barber can’t guarantee his custom
ers against any and all dangers—
and, anyhow, a person ought to be
able to climb down from a shoe
shine stand by himself.
A truck driver parked in an al
ley, and got ready to unload a
heavy bundle of cloth. Without
looking, he lifted the package and
pushed it off the truck — at the
same moment shouting “Look
out!” A man walking by was hit
by the bundle, and suffered a bro
ken arm in the mishap. Later the
victim sued the trucking company
for damages, and the court granted
his claim. The judge ruled that the
truck driver should have either
looked first — or hollered sooner!
• • •
May a Trolley Conductor Punch
A Quarrelsome Passenger?
A fat man got into an argument
with a street car conductor over a
lost nickel. The dispute waxed
hotter and hotter, and finally the
man called the conductor a liar.
Promptly the latter doubled his
fist and punched the hefty passen-
* as it must be to many mothers
and grandmothers, why they teach
our children what they do teach
them — or try to teach them — in
public high schools and in all col
leges.
In the past, the only men who
had this higher education — no
women had it—were preparing for
the law, medicine, the church, or
service to the state. They were
destined to be the rulers, attorneys,
doctors, clergymen, judges, colonels
in the empire’s far-flung posts,
teachers and professors. Their
studies, of course, included history,
higher mathematics, international
law, Latin and living languages.
Today we trail along on the same
course, dragging with us thousands
of American boys and girls who
will never need Latin or logarithms.
Awakened Interest
Correct speech is achieved be
cause it is heard, read and thought
about. Such mathematics as any
man or woman needs beyond gram
mar school must be learned in the
express and particular business to
which he or she devotes himself.
Any language can be mastered by
a person of good intellect in the
six months before he takes a post
in Brazil or Russia. And similarly,
enough history of any particular
epoch will stay in your mind when
you want it to stay there—and that
desire is not apt to awaken until
you have some reason to be inter
ested in it.
Turn to any college man you
know, unless he be yesterday’s
graduate, with the simplest Latin
phrase, and he will look as blank
ger in the stomach! Later, the man
filed a damage suit for assault and
battery. The conductor’s defense
was that the passenger had started
the argument, but the court held
him liable anyhow. The judge said
that the conductor of a public con
veyance must always “treat his
passengers with respect” — and
that didn’t mean punching them in
the stomach I ^
... turn to any college man ...
as he did at 15 in the schoolroom.
Present any problem in machinery
or electronics to the average col
lege graduate, and unless he
majored in that subject and intends
tq follow it up, he’ll know less than
the unlettered lad in the garage,
who can put his shock of hair into
the engine hood of your car, mum
ble mysterious words, and have
things righted in five minutes.
We don’t teach them what they
need. We don’t help them find the
glory of work they like to do, be
cause we give them work they hate
to do. We bore them to death all
through their young years, and
then are amazed they don’t want
to read Shakespeare or Homer.
“Gosh, they gave us that stuff in
school!”
Modern Conception
I’ve just finished reading an ar
ticle on this subject by one Jack
Harrison Pollack in a newspaper
weekly. It describes what many
modem public schools are doing
along the line of “Life Adjust
ment.” Many schools—not more
than five per cent, it is true, but
that means about ten million chil
dren—are allowing older pupils
credits on part-time outside work,
encouraging the development of
character in human relations, per
sonal contacts, individual ventures.
We all know that what our chil
dren need is strong, fine characters.
If a boy or girl has that, little else
matters. He is equipped by gram
mar school to go as far as he cares
to go. So the question is; what col
lege work can help to form strong
characters, what type of training
will guide young minds and souls to
true self-development and self-con
trol?
These modem schools are work
ing actual miracles in saving
youngsters from the common mis
takes of adolescence. They teach
sexual understanding, which is a
step toward sexual morality; they
inspire daring, courage, initiative
and, above all, self-knowledge.
But the easier, righter, simpler
place for characters to be formed
is at home. The national tragedy
is that 50 per cent of our fathers
and mothers haven’t the knowledge
or the strength of mind or the
fineness of character themselves,
to accomplish it. America would
be the strongest nation in the world,
if they did. She need fea'r no one
then. She would be so much the
envy of all other nations that no
foreign pagan ideology could find
root in the minds and souls of her
children.
A boy of 17 was given a life
sentence in an eastern state years
ago. He won’t serve all that, per
haps, but he’s been in jail almost
20 years already—good years for
more fortunate boys. In the course
of several talks, his foreign-born,
distracted mother showed me his
smeared, rubbed, blotted school
books. He had studied, or rather
been expected to study, algebra,
ancient history, English literature,
folklore, gymnastics and music.
One wonders why any of us ever
imagined that these would give him
sound character.
Woman Elevator Operator
Saves Scores During Fire
PITTSBURGH.—A woman opera
tor braved a $15,000 fire to carry
scores of terrified persons from the
upper floors of a burning office
building.
The elevator operator, Sally
Rahn, 22, made two trips until heat
forced her to take over from an
other elevator. Then she made two
more trips until smoke and heat
caused her to abandon the car.
Rarest Object
Is 'Rare Book'
Most 'Finds' Have
No Actual Value
NEW YORK.—The most valuable
book printed in America is the Bay
Psalm book, published in 1640. It
has brought as high as $151,000 and
certainly would be worth $90,000
upon the open market today.
Only 11 copies are known and it
is unlikely that many more will
come to light. There’s always a
sporting chance, however, that
another may turn up.
There also is a chance that copies
of other extremely scarce and valu
able books will materialize out of
the attic or Aunt Bertha’s trunk.
A lady wrote: “I recently read
a news feature in. our home town
paper that old books are valuable.
My parents have quite a few, such
as . . (here followed a list of
titles).
“We’d like to know who to get in
touch with and all the details."
Sadly, it was necessary to inform
the lady that her description of the
books indicated they were worth
less.
Stories about rare and valuable
first editions have been written for
many years. Every time one sees
print mail is heavy with letters
from persons who are sure they
possess copies of the described
rarities.
Authors have received hundreds
of such communications and yet
never once did they produce a real
bibliographical find. Invariably,
the correspondents had only the
latest and cheapest reprints of
books valuable only in first edition
form.
The number of persons possess
ing “old family Bibles” was
astounding. There seems to be a
universal feeling that all old Bible*
just have to be valuable.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
I ^ ^ Every Career
Demands Study
By Lawrence Gould
Do all careers call for special training?
Answer: You cannot do any job
well unless you know how to do it,
and the simplest way of finding this
out is to have someone who knows
how teach you. But this does not
mean that the only way to train
yourself for any kind of work is in
a school or college classroom. Many
leading newspapermen never at
tended schools of journalism and
one of the great bacteriologists of
our time began as a porter in the
laboratory. If you can read and are
not afraid to study, there are rela
tively few careers to which you
cannot aspire.
V
Is acne a serious problem?
Answer: Very serious indeed to
the adolescent who is suffering
from it—all the more because his
parents are so apt to feel that he is
“making a fuss over nothing.” For
the biggest conscious problem of
the average teen-ager is “social
acceptance,” and to feel he’s seri
ously handicapped in winning this
by a “disfigurement” may retard
or block his whole adjustment to
the adult world. Recommended
reading for all sufferers from this
difficulty is a new book, “The Skin
Problems of Young Men and Wom
en,” by Dr. Herbert Lawrence.
Is psychotherapy “for
doctors only”?
Answer: Most of the best psy
chotherapists are doctors, and some
forms of mental illness ought not
to be treated except by a physician.
But since there are something like
ten times as many people in need
of help for emotional difficulties as
there are psychiatrists to treat
them, the plain fact is that much
of this help must come from non
physicians, and that some of these
are fully competent to give it. “Psy
chiatric psychologists,” says Dr.
George H. Preston, “are not as
sistants to an all-wise medical psy
chiatrist, but therapists in their
own right.”
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Helpingthe Aged UndergoOperation
By Dr. James W. Barton
r r IS NOT LONG since a physician
in consultation with a surgeon
often decided not to allow an elder
ly patient to undergo operation un
less it was a matter of life or death.
Because there are now so many
elderly men and women in the
world and they are beginning to
feel the effects of the aging process,
physicians and surgeons are study
ing closely the problem of surgical
operation in the elderly.
In “Geriatrics,” (disease of the
elderly) Dr. J. Dewey Bisgard,
University of Nebraska College of
Medicine, states that there is
greater need for team work be
tween the surgeon, the internist
(specialist in internal diseases),
anesthetist, and other specialists,
and that every detail in surgical
management must be cautiously
and carefully observed.
These patients should be studied
not by their age in years but by
their age physically, as some are
old at 50 and others are young at
70.
One important consideration is
the nourishment of the body; if the
patient is undernourished, his
weight should be increased. While
it is admitted that lean men live
longer than fat men, it is known
that many elderly men and women
do not eat as much as they really
need to keep body strong, and to
provide enough fat and other cover
ings to protect the nerves and serve
as a food supply in an emergency.
Dr. Bisgard points out that with
the loss of fat there is a loss of
sugar from the sugar or glycogen
depots—skin, liver—and also loss
of protein (muscle tissue).
He suggests, therefore, that In
preparing a patient for surgical
operation an all round diet should
be given and the proteins—meat,
eggs, fish—should be increased. If
not enough proteins can be eaten by
the patient, then proteins in the
form of amino acids can be in
jected into a vein.
Another suggestion is that the
elderly patient being prepared for
operation should be given enough
liquids to maintain the proper
water balance but not enough to
have too much water in the tissues.
And during operation, no unneces
sary bleeding should occur, as too
much loss of blood might cause
collapse.
Psychiatrists make allowances
for mental patients who would get
better without shock treatment and
do not put patients through shock
if they can be cured by other
methods.
• • •
Very few surgeons operate with
out a thorough examination by the
physician assuring the surgeon that
an operation is necessary.
In the electric shock treatment
for mental disorder, the patient has
no memory of the shock t< does not
have to have injections into the
veins, and is never conscious what
is happening to him.
• • •
One reason the dental profes
sion is standing high is the amount
of research work being done by
dentists in nutrition.
SCRIPTURE.: Psalms 23: 42: 4S;
90: 121: 148.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm
63:1-6.
The Psalms We Sing
Lesson for September 25, 1949
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I T WOULD be a most unusual per
son who on his dying bed would
turn to the 23rd chapter of I Chroni
cles and not to the 23rd Psalm. If
the reader will
think of his own
favorite passage of
Scripture, and then
look them up in
some edition which
prints the Bible in
a modern format,
he will discover
that his favorite
passages are
probably all
poetry.
Dr. Foreman
Poetry’s Power
W HY the appeal of poetry? For
one thing, it is vivid. It is in
colors, not severe black and white.
It lives and breathes, at times it
shouts, and it always sings.
It is true to say “The provi
dential oversight of the Creator
is continuous and unreiyiitting;”
but it is more effective to say,
“The Lord is my shepherd.” It
would be true to say, “The evi
dences of creative and bene
ficent purpose can be seen
throughout all the orders of na
ture;" but how much more
vivid is the 148th Psalm, call
ing on hail and fire, sun and
moon and stars of light, to
praise the Lord!
Another secret of poetry’s power
is that it is the language of emo
tion. Professors and theologians
may be saying the same things as
the poet, and maybe even saying
them more completely and accu
rately; but what they say is less
easy to remember.
So these emotional Psalms will
always appeal, even to the profes
sor when off duty, because they
make us feel religion and not mere
ly think it.
• • •
Pictures of God
S O IT IS no wonder the Psalms
have been loved and sung all
over the world. We are perhaps the
only religion that has made so
much use of another religion’s
hymn book. Different though our
faiths may be, Jews and Christians
can sing from the Psalter with one
voice and heart.
For centuries ft was the
hymnal of the Christian church.
Indeed, up to recent years
some large denominations
would allow in public worship
the singing of no other songs
than the Psalms.
Many of our best hymns and pop
ular gospel songs, as we have al
ready seen, are based on Psalms.
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” “A
Shelter in the Time of Storm,”
“Hiding in Thee,” — they all go
back to the Psalmist’s picture of
God as a Rock (Ps. 42:9). The
Psalmist was not thinking of a
little rock in a cornfield. He was
thinking of some tall crag in the
fierce hot landscape of his coun
try.
A rock there is a landmark. It is
a shelter against the blazing sun,
people could live under its over
hanging height.
So God is the landmark of
life, he gives direction to our
ways; he is the shelter on life’s
weary journey, he Is our safe
dwelling.
So with the many other pictures
of God in the Psalms—he is light,
he is shade, he is the guard on
duty at night watching over the
sleeping city (Ps. 121); he is a
shepherd, he is water for the thirst
ing soul (Ps. 42.)
• • o
A Model Hymnal
I T IS true that few Christians to
day can use in worship all of
the Psalms, writhout omissions or
changes. It is also true that prac
tically all Christian churches find
that the Psalms, by themselves,
are inadequate to express all there
Is in Christian experience, faith and
ideals.
The Christian hymn, entirely in
dependent of the Psalms, has long
since come into its own. And yet
the Psalms remain the model hym
nal. For in them beauty and truth
are blended.
This should be the ideal of all
Christian hymn and song books.
Some of our modem “hymns”
as well as some older ones,
are bad because they are no
better than jingles, —doggerel,
not poetry, and often song to
tones better suited to a juke
box; and some are bad because
they convey either nonsense or
downright falsehood.
But the great hymns, and the
best hymnals, are those which like
the Psalms of old, combine pro
found truths about God and man,
duty and destiny, with stately, stir
ring and singable music, aglow with
the beauty and power of words.
(Copyright by the International Coun
cil of Religioua Education on behalf of
40 Protestant denominations. Released
by WNU Feature*.
Ain’t It So
The devoted wife is always
anxious to get home to her hus
band, usually because she’s
afraid he’s enjoying her ab
sence.
. • •
Character is made by what
you stand for, reputation by
what you fall for.
* « I
It is easier to run into debt
than to outrun the bill collector.
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A perfect guest-room touch, too!
• • •
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