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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C, WOMAN'S WORLD Right Pattern Use Helps You Fashion-Wise By Ertta Haley I F YOU’RE hard to fit. if you want to be fashionably dressed and if you want to save money on clothes, the best thing to do is to make friends with paper patterns. Though your material may cost $7. it's easy enough to make it into a dress worth three times that amount with the proper styling and workmanship. Like buying a dress, selecting the proper pattern and material which goes with it, the case requires some study. However, the study is fasci nating since you are the subject, and the grade you make is a ticket to the group who knows how to dress. You’ll have to study not only the patterns themselves, but also fash ion trends and your own personal ity and figure problems. To do the best job, select a pattern whose style will do some.hing for you, just as certain dresses will bring out or mask figures. Dresses for teen-agers may ap peal to many of the older women, but it must be remembered that the charm lies in their youthful ness. They would appear ludicrous on a woman, who may still be a size 14, but is three times past the age. Dramatic dresses and suits look fine if you’re the type, but if you aren’t, why not choose something more appropriate like a simple tailored style or a softly feminine one? Let’s suppose that you have studied to the point where you can choose the proper style. The next important error not to make is the selection of the improper fabric for the pattern. Maybe you have a soft, flowered print which you have in mind to Select patterns for your type use for a dress. If you’ve chosen a tailored type of pattern, however, that soft material won’t form the nice, sharp edges, pleats or other tailored lines required and the dress will not be successful. Softly draped dresses cannot be made from stiff materials that simply will not drape and which are meant for the tailored type of clothes. With the fabric picture so much improved over the past several years, there should be little diffi culty in selecting or obtaining the one you need and want, as well as all the colors you could desire. The main thing is to put suitable pat tern and the right fabric together. Is it Negligence To Carry Packages that Obstruct Your View? A housewife bougnt several bulky articles in a market, and then be gan to leave. Her packages partly blocked her view, so she stepped along as carefully as she could. But just as she was going out the door, she unwittingly put her foot down on a leaf of cabbage. Up went the foot — down went the woman! In jured, she sued the store for not keeping the floors safe. At the trial, the company argued that she her self was negligent for carrying packages that interfered with her vision. But the court brushed aside that argument and granted the woman’s claim. The judge figured that a person needn’t be as care ful in a market as on a street comer! • • • Fire swept a small brick build ing. leaving only a few walls still standing. A few days later an in quisitive youngster, armed wfth a stick, began poking around in the ruins. Suddenly one wall collapsed right near the boy. He escaped with only minor injuries, but nevertheless brought a damage suit against the owner of'the building. However, the court turned down his petition. The judge said that, since the owner had not invited the youngster onto the premises, the boy had to take it, Dotted Velveteen Polka dots are importantly featured tor fall by Carolyn Schnurer in this youthful fash ion. She selects black polka dots on mustard colored velveteen for a snug - fitting jacket trimmed with a velveteen col lar and matching skirt. Choose Patterns To Fit Needs You wouldn’t think of going into a store and buying an evening gown or fancy dress for which you had no use, simply because it looked so nice, would you? A lot of women, when turned loose with patterns and ideas that they can be made less expensively than ready-made clothes, feel they can make up all sorts of clothing, use or no use. Before selecting a pattern stop to consider whether the garment ff'iti individual measurements. has a place in your wardrobe. Don’t consider just the pattern, but how it will be used, as well as how it fits your own individual needs. Fancy blouses may be beautiful things, but if you’re going to wear A man injured his arm while working in a lumber yard, and had to stay in bed for several weeks. During this time, his wife cared for him faithfully and did her best to keep him comfortable. Later, when the man put in his claim for workmen’s compensation, he asked for an extra amount for behalf of his wife — for the services she had rendered. However, the court de cided this was asking too much. Re jecting the wife’s claim, the judge said that a woman shouldn’t ex pect payment for doing her duty! • * * If A Workman Falls Off A Water Tank, May He Collect Compensation? During lunch hour, the employees of a tool factory used to gather around an old water tank on the roof. One day, a mechanic brought a camera with him. He handed it to a friend, climbed up a ladder on the side of the tank, and cried: . Y» i "OK, take my picture!” But just then the ladder gave way and the mechanic fell down onto the roof top. Seriously injured, he later tried to collect workmen’s compen sation. However, the court ruled that he wasn’t entitled to it. The judge said that climbing the tank was not part of the job. them in a business office, wouldn’t it be more fitting to choose some thing tailored? If you’re choosing dresses for wear around the house, select something that is comfortable as well as pretty, in addition to some thing you won’t have to be for ever laundering, ironing and mend ing. Many women will try a pattern and give up in discouragement be fore they finish. Why? The pattern may look deceptively simple but carries a lot of fine detailing that the inexperienced just simply can’t cope with. If you’re not certain of how you can determine these things, consult the clerk or take along a friend who knows about patterns. One reason why patterns have become so popular is that many women have found their use a per fect solution to the fitting problem. The size you need in a dress is the size you will need in the pattern, but the best way to decide the size is to take measurements and then compare them with those given for the pattern. KATHLEEN NORRIS No, Chastity Is I T IS DISTINCTLY disheartening to find, prominently featured in a current magazine, an article by no less an authority than Doctor David Mace of Drew university, provocatively entitled “Is Chastity Outmoded?” Disheartening, because it seems to me dishonest to so title an arti cle that, after flirting about sug gestively among alternatives to adolescent and youthful chastity, Doctor Mace comes down to the old code, comes down rigidly and idealistically; sex, he decided, must be lifted to a high level, must wait for maturity and marriage, and be sublimated into true mated love, the highest happiness man and woman can know. We’ve been patiently preaching that, we mothers, teachers, guides, so that, in the end, we have no quarrel with Doctor Mace. But we certainly can feel small respect for the man who indicates in his title that chastity is debatable and is careful to remind young and im pressionable readers that there are several schools of thought on the subject. Religious Scruples He eliminates those of us whose religious scruples keep us pure. He also eliminates from his analy sis—for despite the high moral tone he develops, it is an analysis— those who consider chastity highly inconvenient and whose policy is to do as they like. This leaves, he says "the ex tremely large third group that lies between.” Those who “try to add up the arguments on both sides.” Doctor Mace states that the tra ditional viewpoint is that unchasti ty is undesirable because of its ef fects on the individual, in terms of .. . religious scruples keep us pure . . . disease, unwanted children and the damage it may do to the com munity, making family life and society unstable. On the other hand, he admits there is the argument that “to sup press sex desires makes people frustrated and bottled up. To ex press them leads to growth and enlargement of the personality.” Later, “while in the past full sexual freedom was impractical because of the danger of venereal disease and illegitimacy, medical science has now changed all that. “Any intelligent youth," says the doctor in the next sentence, "will tell you that the doctors have got V. D. licked.” And later again, “the man at least can take mea sures to protect himself. For the woman, safeguards are not so easi ly available." But if protective measures fail, both social diseases can be cured, he observes. Choice Of Three Immunity, however, cannot be guaranteed. “The boy and girl who come together sexually, must face the possibility of pregnancy. If it occurs,” says the doctor ungram matically. “they have three alter natives, a forced marriage, an abortion or an illegitimate child.” He admits these are negative arguments for chastity. But he feels that the f uure may see them weakened, or even entirely neutral ized. “Someday,” he says, “vener eal disease may be stamped out and a completely reliable contra ceptive put at everyone’s disposal. Will chastity be outmoded then?” Doctor Mace goes on to a “criti cal question.” At what point is it appropriate for a young couple to have sexual relations when their intention is to marry? As soon as r— THE READER'S COURTROOM I Trouble Comes in Packages — By Will Bernard, LL.B Be Smart! Feathers, but no fuss, just smart, smooth-flowing simplic ity instead! These are the ear mark of the new fashion picture for Fall. Sketched here is the very personification of this spirit from a current collection. The brim is a veritable saucer of black velvet, highlighted by a velvet ribbon of emerald green. White coq feathers arranged on a flowing line add the newest touch of all. Not Obsolete they know they are serious in the intention to marry, or not until they actually are wed? On this point, says the doctor, there is a strong difference of opin ion. How can they know that they are sexually well matched unless they test out this side of their re lationship in advance? And anxious to be fair to this argument, he cites the case of a man who could not decide between two women whom he regarded as possible wives. It may be satis factory to the doctor for them to “test” for compatibility. Nothing is said of the degrada tion of the women who submitted to his "process,” of the insolent stupidity of the man experimenter, or of the insult offered all decent women who read this article. But in the end, after some con fused floundering, Doctor Mace comes gravely and decorously to the conclusion that “the whole trend of expert opinion today is toward regarding sexual harmony as a function of good personal in teraction.” This is a scientific way of saying they are humans. He also says poetically that “given love and sexual normality, sex is the servant of love, and must be made to do its bidding.” If that means anything. The article ends upon an idealis tic note. "What we need,” says Doctor Mace, “is a new ideal of chastity, as a discipline gladly ac cepted so that human love can be kept warm and tender and unsul lied." This is a new ideal to you. Doc tor? But you do a great many good mothers and fathers and teachers injustice if you call it new. Berlin Brownies Take Odd Jobs Work to Get Funds To Attend School BERLIN.—Would you like a handsome young man to take care of a wallflower at your birthday party? Or a girl for baby-sitting? Or somebody to clean your rugs? Just call the Brownies (Heinzel- maennehen) of West Berlin. For 36 cents an hour, they’ll tackle any odd job anybody wants done. The Brownies are a tradition of the city of Cologne. Hundreds of years ago, the story goes, the help ful little spirits made life a pleas ure for the people. They did all the work while the city folk were asleep. Then a curious shoemaker’s wife, who wanted to see what the Brownies looked like, frightened them away. They never appeared again—until 1949. Right now there are about 460 “Brownies” officially registered in Berlin—students who have to earn extra money so they can at tend West Berlin’s free university. Chief Brownie (Oberheinzelmann) Ulrich Heckert, 24, a student of medicine, started the enterprise. With money he had collected from public spirited citizens, he launched an extensive advertising campaign to let Berliners know the Brownies had come back. The Brownies had 1,400 work hours in the first month. Four months later they had 4,200. But that still wasn’t enough. At best it averaged about 10 hours a month a student and a net income, after de ductions for administrative ex penses, of nine West marks ($2.70). Nevertheless, Chief Brownie Heckert says he is quite happy about the increasing number of orders for student services. His fiancee, Ingeborg Janecke, 23, a photographer by training, it the Brownies’ office secretary. “Each student is paid 1.2 West marks (36 cents) an hour.” She explained, “no matter what kind of work he does. The student keeps 95 pfennigs and 25 pfennigs go into the funds from which we pay the advertising, office rent, tele phone bills, accident insurance so on.” MIRROR Heartlessness Of Your ™ — ™ Isa Danger MIND By Lawrence Gould Can a heartless person win your affection? Answer: Certainly, If he (or she) is clever enough. It is easier in some ways to win the affection of someone whom you care nothing about than of someone you are genuinely fond of, since wanting intensely to have someone like—or love—you may make you feel tense and awkward with him. There are egotists who gratify their vanity by “turning on the charm” until they’re sure you like them and then have no further interest in you. But you’re better off than they are in the long run since a person who cannot be hurt cannot be happy, either. Is a child who has Imaginary playmates “strange”? Answer: He’s apt to turn out more nearly normal than the average, writes Dr. Robert C. Wingfield, well-known psychologist, in the Journal of Child Psychiatry. Dr. Wingfield tells of tests given to 229 college women freshmen, 67 of whom recalled as small girls hav ing playmates who existed only n. their own imaginations. Compared with the average of the whole group, these students showed less neuroticism, less introversion, more skill in personal relations and a greater degree of confidence In themselves. Can yon know a person yon haven’t lived with? Answer: You can never “know all about” anybody under any cir cumstances, any more than you can absolutely know yourself, and how ever long you may live with anoth er person, you are never wholly safe against surprises. But day-by day contact usually does reveal sides of anyone’s personality which may not appear if you see him only occasionally. It’s not just a case of his being on his best behavior when he’s with you; it’s that when we are “off guard” (for instance, at the breakfast table) that we are prone to unconscious self-revela tion. LOOKING AT RELIGION By don moore FBOBRAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 15 SEEKING TO BFING THE AMERICAN INDIAN TO A SrATUS OF / run ciTizefeHir/ THE NEW WORLD CALENDAR. IN THE NEWS HAS BEEN DIS CUSSED PRO AND CON BY RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES FOR II? YEARS / KEEPING HEALTHY i Another Cure for Alcoholism By Dr. James W. Barton nlL OVER THE WORLD today determined efforts are being made by individuals and organiza tions to cure and prevent alcohol ism. Alcoholism not only ruins the life of the alcoholic but ruins the life also of his or her family. I have spoken before of the ex cellent work being done by Alcohol ics Anomymous, a group made up of cured and not entirely cured alcoholics. These men and women lean on, or pray to, a higher power than themselves and ask to be given the strength to abstain from alcohol just one day at a time. The cured by this oaganization with branches everywhere is estimated at nearly 90 per cent. I have also mentioned the drug benzedrine sulfate (amphetamine) which not only takes away the de sire for alcohol, but gives the pa tient a boost physically and mental ly that tides him over a weak speel or hangover. A drug, accidentally discovered by two Danish physicians, that takes away the desire for alcohol is called antabus. In the “Journal of the American Medical Associa tion,” Drs. Erik Jacobsen and O. Martensen - Larsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, report the results ob tained by antabus in 550 cases up to December, 1948. Cases were treated in open wards in hospitals and were allowed to pay short visits to their offices and homes. "It is important for rapid mental ands ocial restoration tq bring pa tients back into their ordinary lives as soon as possible, so that they may learn to live non-alcoholic lives among normal drinkers. “Antabus is cheap and easy to administer, but it is also easy for the patient to discontinue treatment thinking he can stop drinking again if he takes antabus again. The drug causes very disagreeable symptoms —great flushing of face, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and breathless ness. “These symptoms are so severe that they prevent persons from taking alcohol.” The British “Lancet” states: "So far no harmful systemic effects on liver, heart, kidney or blood form ing organs have been observed; nor have any untoward effects been noted.” ■ HEALTH NOTES ■ Today the lives of many men and women stricken with both tuberculosis and influenzal menin gitis are being saved by new drugs —penicillin, sulfas and streptomy cin. • • • When we see, smell and remem ber the taste of the food placed be fore us, all the digestive juices be gin to flow. — Physicians have learned in the past few years that patients may suffer from symptoms, the cause or causes of which cannot be dis covered in a well equipped labora tory. • • • A patient in bed with no exercise and a mind full of worries is not usually hungry, yet he must eat well to gain weight and strength. Wingless Chickens Cause Speculation Impact on Industry Studied by Growers Poultrymen and consumers throughout the United States are still speculating on the degree im pact on the poultry industry of the development of wingless chickens. Peter Baumann, Des Moines, Iowa, a veterinary-supply sales man, has raised a flock of 400 such chickens and has proclaimed loud ly that they are the “nearest thing” alive to famed cartoonist A1 Capp’s “shmoos.” Baumann said he had spent 10 years developing the wingless flock, and that he expects the breed to set a new trend in chicken raising. He pointed out that the wingless chicken has a thick layer of white meat where ordinary chickens have wrings. Baumann said he had kept his For those who dislike chicken wings, Peter H. Baumann, of Des Moines, Iowa, has come up with wingless chickens. He is shown here comparing the wing less chicken (right) with an ordi nary chicken (left). chickeft breed a secret because he wanted to be sure it was a success. He studied animal husbandry at Iowa State college and asserts his wingless chickens are not a “freak.” A freak does not reproduce, he argued. The ancestors of this new breed of chicken, Baumann said, came from Texas. He was traveling through that state in the 30’s when he acquired a light Brahma rooster and a white Minorca hen. Each bird had only stubs for wings. He bred them, he said, and was astounded when the ben hatched wingless chickens. He then began experimenting and breeding. Baumann reported that at first he got only three or four wringless birds out of 100 eggs. How, he said, about 95 of every 100 chicks have no wings at all. Some of the others, he said, have stubs or a stub on one side and a wing on the other. Eases Farm Chores Wagon unloaders are among the latest electrical devices to be developed for farm chore use. Most types are still in the experimental stage, but many sections of the country already are using them to a large ex tent. In Wisconsin, for ex ample, 50 per cent of the farm ers who have forage harvest ers also have electric wagon unloaders. Under ordinary circum stances, a three-ton load can be handled with an electric unload er by one man in five minutes. Cost of operation is low, with power provided by a H horse power portable motor which can be used on other farm ma- ohines when not connected to the unloader. Narrow Poultry Houses Give Way to New Style D. D. Moyer, extension poultry specialist at Ohio State university, says the narrow type poultry house 15 to 20 feet deep is giving away to houses 30 to 40 feet in depth, built long enough to house 500 and more birds. Moyer cites a" number of advant ages in the new style housing. Wall space is cut dowm, heat loss re duced, cleaning is easier and it is le.is trouble to move equipment Open and Shot Case Small steel balls have elimi nated one of civilized man’s peren nial banes—the drawer that will not open or close. As many as 50 of the small spheres now are used in standard four-drawer office filing cabinets, according to SKF. RrtW HOW IT POPS __ CIMS p TENDER NOHUUS TRY IT/ NEW! APPLESAUCE MUFFINS Crisp and fragrant as autumn air when made with nut-sweet Kellogg's All-Bran. Delicious! 1 egg 4 teaspoons H cup milk baking powder 1 cup All- 1 teaspoon salt Bran 2 tablespoons H cup thick sugar sweetened I tablespoons applesauce melted H cup raisins shortening 1 Vi cups sifted flour 1 Beat egg; stir in milk, All-Bran, applesauce, raisins. 3 Add sifted dry Ingredients: stir only until combined. S Stir In melted shortening. 4 Fill greased muffin pans % full. Bake in mod. hot oven (40CTF.) about 30 min. Yield: 12 medi um muffins. Mother Knows Yodora checks perspiration odor So0M/A&£Sf Made with a foes cream bass. Yodora is actually soothing to normal skins. No harsh chemicals or irritating salts. Won’t harm akin or clothing. 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