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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
EVERY DAME, SICKLY AND UNSOUND . ..
Of Pinkham's, a Snifter V/as Quite a Lifter
...SANG GLORY OF LYDIA'S COMPOUND
By H. I. PHILLIPS
It book by Jean Burton on Lydia
Pinkham brings back memor
ies of a day when the prim face of
that lady stared from billboard,
magazine and newspaper. That was
away back when Old Mr. Munyon,
Father Duffy, Bigelow &■ Healy’s
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, Cascarets,
Alcott’s Kidney Plasters, Payne’s
Celery Compound and Sloane’s Lin
iment were apt to be in every medi
cine chest.
• • •
Mother Sill’s Seasickness
Pills, Swamproot, Frog-in-Your-
Throat and Glover’s Hair Re
storer were in every drug store,
too. It was the era when they
were pioneer advertisers. Back
when the “Bear” in the “Bear
Day R r
y Belo ”gs to God
j-l . shade ^ 030 datvn , u ..
, „ die rain ,^ the
Go sin ■ m 80 bhst « 7 8 and
The no nOCl
And WfferiT 7 ° Id for ^ What
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
In Mind” slogan made an old-
time cereal famous, when the
Winchester calendars were a
must in thousands of homes
and when the folks went for
stick licorice. Old Battleaxe cut
plug, snake oil, bay rum. Sweet
Caporal cigarettes, snuff and
flaxseed poultices. It was the
period when mom gave the kids
pumpkin seeds for "worms,”
tied an old sock around their
necks for sore throat and put
an "onion bag” on their chests
for croup.
• • •
The age of medical specialists
hadn’t set in. Doctors were general
practice boys who did everything
for $2, win, lose or draw. But $2
could be an extravagance in those
days if the patient was still con
scious, and the folks depended a
lot on herbs, potions, oils and patent
medicines. As a child we got rubbed
with so many things before the doc
tor was called that we were lini
ment-logged when he got there.
* * *
Lydia Pinkham was for the
womenfolks. But we remember
it in the advertisements and on
the labels. It seemed the only
medicine nobody rubbed or
dosed us with. We often won
dered about Lydia. There were
songs about her. One ran:
Feeling low and wanna feel
giddia?
Lady, take a slug of Lydia!
• • •
Lydia Pinkham, the new book re
calls, was a Lynn, Mass., gal,
beautiful and with a perfect figure
in the hour-glass mode. She wai
one of the pipneers in the equal-
rights-and-votes-for-women c a m-
paign. She was a student of medi
cine and for years gave her com
pound free. It was not until her
husband went broke that she de
cided to sell it.
• • •
Her four children peddled it
from door to door first, and it
didn’t bring home the bacon
until one son put a $60 ad on’
the first page of a Boston
paper. From that time Lydia
Pinkham’s Remedy became
one of the greatest newspaper
advertisers in history. And
what a believer in advertising
Lydia was!
• • •
Out of $3,800,000 gross for years
she poured $3,000,000 back into
advertising.
• • *
Jean Burton gives the recipe for
the compound, telling how the var
ious herbs and powders were "per
colated in fine spirits,” giving an
18 per cent alcoholic content to the
"remedy.” A few shots of the com
pound and any woman felt better.
• • •
They were all familiar up around
New England in our boyhood. We
can still in fancy catch the aroma
of Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, Florida
Water, Witch Hazel (still going
strong from a base at Essex,
Conn.), Porto Rico Bay Rum, Bur-
goment, Payne’s Celery Com
pound and Sloane’s Liniment, “good
for man or beast."
* * •
ODE FOR SEPTEMBER
September time is here anew—
YU take a bowl of oyster stew;
Again I’ll ask and ask, "flow do
The crackers always seem so few?"
• • •
It has been a perfect summer for
oysters, the oystermen report. It
seems that they thrive in a season
when there are few storms and
little rough water. Still, we are
£irm believers in environment, and
we think a summer like this has
cost the oysters considerable char
acter. We prefer an oyster with a
rugged upbringing and with a sug
gestion of defiance in its nature.
These 1949 bivalves may be such
sissies it will seem cruel to squirt
lemon on ’em.
• * *
A Japanese industrialist has been
arrested for picking pockets. He
explained that collections had
been slow and that he had to meet
a payroll. A lot of American busi
nessmen, knowing how it is, think
he may just be a little ahead of his
time.
BY INEZ GERHARD
H umphrey bogart is stui
clinging to the battered felt hat
which has become his symbol of
good luck. He first wore it in
"Treasure of Sierra Madre,” and
hasn’t been without it in a picture
since. It will next be seen in Colum-
HUMPHREY BOGART
bia’s “Tokyo Joe.” And by the way,
don’t leap from your seats when
you see a 24 by 18 feet cricket fill
ing the screen in that picture. Just
an ordinary cricket, it was magni
fied 26,184 times to fill the screen,
to herald “menace” scenes be
tween Bogart and Hayakawa.
Eleanor Parker, who lost some
five pounds worrying about Bogart
in “Chain Lightning,” and another
four as a convict in Warners’
“Locked In,” then headed for a
ranch to aleep for weeks and weeks,
she said.
“Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” added
the words "doodler” and "pixi
lated” to every-day vocabularies.
In “Return of October” Terry
Moore called Glenn Ford a
“schnookle,” and it caught on.
Now Columbia has done it again.
In "Miss Grant Takes Richmond,”
Lucille Ball coins the word "doof-
er”—a stenographic symbol that
will “doofer” symbols she can’t
remember.
Barbara Stanwyck has made
It a policy not to make screen
tests with other actors, but
broke her rule for the first
time in 10 years to test opposite
Lyle Bettger. He got the con
tract; they’re teamed in Para
mount’s “The Lie.”
Montgomery Clift, of "Red River”
and "The Heiress,” is the No. 1
Star of Tomorrow, according to
Motion Picture Herald’s annual
poll of theatre operators. Kirk
Douglas came in second, Betty
Garrett third.
posing * R , chord
Fiction * ^ ^
Corner
V IDA knew aU the tricks. You
see, she read a lot. Books on
every conceivable subject.
Unfortunately Vida's facial beau
ty was next to nil. When, at the
age of 18, she
'■ ' came to a full
3 •Minute realization of this,
and an under-
r ICt Ion standing of its
possible c o n s e-
quences, she was at first unhappy.
But being a sensible person, sensi
ble enough to look at the thing
squarely, she sought for other
means to achieve her end. The end
was a man: love, romance.
The other means presented them
selves in the form of books, learn
ing how to put yourself across when
you weren’t particularly attractive;
resorting to devices and technique
that good looking girls didn't have
to employ.
The results were exceedingly
gratifying. Even now, at the
age of 22, the man of her
dreams was practically with
in her grasp. Give her another
month, two at the most, and
he would speak the words that
would make her happiness and
triumph complete.
The man’s name was Glen Lam-
phier. He was one of those fine,
good looking, upstanding speci
mens of young manhood. Intelligent,
gracious, and with a promising
career ahead of him. The type who
appealed by exerting only a mini
mum of effort. Vida had aimed high
when selecting him as the object of
her acquired charms, but the
thought of failure had never once
entered her head.
She had aroused his interest by
heeding the dictates of her fiction
heroines. And Glen had seen the
light. He had come to realize that
behind the plain features of this
girl were quality, intelligence,
breeding.
In a word, Vida had been success
ful in her enterprise—up to a point.
Unhappily, it appeared now as if
that point might prove a stumbling
block, an unsurmountable obstacle.
Coming into the living room one
evening she found him waiting for
her, comfortably ensconced before
the fireplace, a volume of Oscar
Wilde open in his lap. The fact that
her entrance did not distract his at-< I
tention, piqued her no end. She hesi
tated a moment before making
known her presence, and in that
moment the feeling of being piqued
gave way to torment. Suddenly she
realized that something had hap
pened, that she was losing her hold,
that Glen’s interest was on the
wane. Always before, he had
awaited her coming with eager an
ticipation glowing in his eyes.
The thought made Vida unhappy.
A WEEK LATER, sitting before
the living room fire, Vida aban
doned seeking an answer to her
problem and, for lack of something
better to do, picked up the copy of
Oscar Wilde and opened it. Her eye
chanced to fall on a paragraph,
which had been lightly checked with
.a pencil. She read through it with a
rapidly increasing pulse. “—I real
ly don’t see anything romantic in
proposing. It is very romantic to be
tic about a definite proposal . . . .
the excitement is all over. The very
ssence of romance is uncertainty.”
Vida stood up, and there was
a wild look in her eyes. Glen
had read that paragraph. He
had checked it with his pencil.
He had remembered that her
faith in books, in the printed
word was profound ...
She made her way to the book
head in acquiescence . . .
case behind the fireplace. Her eyes
scanned the volumes contained
therein. She removed a copy of
O’Brien’s short stories, leafed it
through, found the passage she
sought, and underscored it heavily,
Glen called an hour later. If hs
was annoyed at the long interval
in the living room before Vida’s ap
pearance, he did not betray that
fact. Instead, he seemed deeply in
terested in reading a paragraph
from a volume of O'Brien's short
stories, which he found lying upon
the table. He read it through twice
before Vida’s voice disturbed him.
He was glad she had come. He
welcomed her eagerly. He had
something to say, something that
could not wait. He said it incoher
ently, babblingly, but plain enough
for Vida to understand and nod hes
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PUZZLE NO. 20
Implement Company
Marks Anniversary
Manure Spreader
First Built in 1889
The story of American free en
terprise is graphically illustrated
by two buildings at the Coldwater,
Ohio, plant of the New Idea Divi
sion, AVCO manufacturing corpora
tion, which this year is celebrating
its golden anniversary.
One of these buildings (actually
■ series of connected buildings)
covers over 15 acres and houses
705,000 square feet of manufactur
ing facilities. Newly expanded, it
boasts one of the most modem
foundries in the nation and a full
complement of equally modem
production machines and processes.
It is the plant in which New Idea
produces its specialized line of
farm implements and equipment
August Reutschilling, who has
been with the company 47
years, stands nostalgically at
the forge In the “museum”—
a replica of the original plant,
and it is the same forge at
which he worked in his early
days with the company.
Across the street is a small,
wooden frame building occupying
just 1440 square feet of space. In it
are an old forge and several simple
machines of the kind used for manu
facturing in the early 1900’s. This
is an almost exact replica of the
modest structure in which Joseph
Oppenheim first began building his
now famous manure spreader in
1899 in the nearby village of Maria
Stein, Ohio. The communities for
miles around Coldwater, and sales
personnel throughout the nation,
know it as the “museum.”
Large letters painted on the front
wall identify the building as “New
Idea Spreader Works-1869.” Inside
are the four rooms in which Oppen
heim and six helpers fashioned the
first one of the most important
and most widely used implements
ever devised by the farm imple
ment industry.
Hie first room as you enter was
the “forge and machine room,”
containing a forge, hand shear,
hand punch press, hand threading
machine, small high speed drill,
benches and water tank for cooling
a gasoline engine.
Quonsat ‘Crib’
Shown here is a new, Quonset-
type storage quarters for grain
which was built by Irvin McKlb-
ben, of Maddock, N. D., through
a commodity credit corporation
financing program. McKibben
is supervising the dumping of
the first load of his wheat crop
into the newly-completed build
ing which was constructed by
Agsco Steel Buildings, Inc.
Crossbreds Held Finer
Type of Beef Animals
Experiments in breeding range
cattle show that—animal for ani
mal—crossbreds are a finer type
than the purebred stock from which
they stem originally.
In making that assertion, a live
stock specialist claims there is a
definite advantage that could result
from planned cross-breeding of
beef animals, and lack of uniformi
ty of color is not an indication of
Inferior market yield.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
I ^ ^ 'Moral Support 1
Can Do Harm
By Lawrence Gould
Can “moral support” do more harm than good?
Answer: Yes, to someone who is
childishly dependent on it The
man whose self-confidence in
business depends on his wife’s
continually “bucking him up” may
not only be unable to take credit
for his own successes, but uncon
sciously place the blame on her
for his failures and feel she has
cheated him by not making her
assurances come true. On the
whole, the oftener a man goes to
his wife—or to anybody else—for
“moral support” of. this kind, the
greater the likelihood that instead
of giving him strength, it encour
ages his weakness.
Does psychoanalysis cure
“nervous symptons”?
Answer: That is not its major
object, writes Dr. Izette De Forest
in the Journal of Clinical Psycho
pathology. Mental treatment seeks
primarily to free the patient from
the false defense he built up as a
child, and help him develop his
innate capacities for dealing with
life situations. And while symptons
may be useful as clues, they fre
quently clear up in the course of
treatment without ever having
been attacked directly. I have
known a patient to recover from a
serious skin ailment which the
analyst himself thought due to
physical conditions.
Is it easy to influence a child’s
feelings?
Answer: Almost dangerously
easy—both for him and for you. A
child’s attitude toward almost any
thing or person depends on the
feelings he associates with it (or
him), and the earlier these asso
ciations are formed, the more last
ing the attitude will be. The tone
in which your child hears you
speak a person’s name may influ
ence him to love or to fear that
person ever after. But you’ll sel
dom influence a child to like some
thing by saying that it is “good for
him”—he likes things that he as
sociates with "fun” or pleasure.
LOOKING AT RELIGION
By DON MOORE
“CHRISTIAN FAKtf
1$ !U onmm IN SIAM
TO COMBINE RELIGIOUS
TEACHING ANP MODERN
FARMING METHODS.
According to the
yTorlp Council of Cnurchbs
CONDITIONS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY HAVE
BECOME WORSE SINCE THE GREAT
AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE ADJOURNED
i A YEAR AGO!
Mm
mtooMjmiom
WILL BE IN EFFECT IN
SWEDEN SOON —-THE
CITIZENS MULL NOT UAV&
TO BELONG TO A
CHURCHf
KEEPING HEALTHY
Group Treatment of Mental Cases
|T IS ESTIMATED that there are
^ needed today about five or 10
times as many psychiatrists as
are now available. Naturally it
takes a psychiatrist a long time,
many single hour sessions, with a
man or woman who has developed
odd behavior, to dig up the neces
sary information to help him.
When men and women are under
stress as during war they cannot
live their ordinary everyday lives,
and so develop odd behavior, so
different from that of their normal
selves. It was natural, therefore,
that during World War II there was
an extra demand for the services
of psychiatrists.
These psychiatrists got the logi
cal idea that, as so many cases of
odd behavior had similar symp
toms, it would save time to treat
patients in groups. It was learned
at the very beginning that not only
was time saved by group treat
ment, but also that the members
of the group were greatly encour
aged to find that so many others
had the same odd ideas and be
haved as oddly as themselves.
In the "New England Medical
Journal,” Drs. William B. Terhune,
By Dr. James W. Barton
Yale University, and James R.
Dickerson, New Canaan, Conn.,
two outstanding psychiatrists, state
that the group method of treatment
has been so successful in veterans’
hospitals and in private practice,
that it is now in general use every
where. The group provides the Pa
tient with emotional satisfactions
that he was denied in childhood
and has not found in his daily life,
outside his family. Through group
discussions he comes to realize
that he is not so different from
others.
Where the patient is treated pri
vately, he leans upon the psychia
trist for help . an *, guidance, in
group treatment he depends on the
other members of the group who
in turn, look to him for help. They
all help and are helped, which
raises their morale.
This group treatment has shown
its value not only as a time saver
and relatively inexpensive method
of treatment, but has, in itself,
valdes not found in individual
treatment. The patient is regarded
as a social being and in the group
lewms to adapt himself to others.
If a patient has a violent paroxys
mal attack of vertigo—one that is
disabling—it is probably due to dis
ease of the hearing nerve and not
to a brain tumor or other diseases
of the brain.
• • •
A number of migraine patients
have been treated with ergotamine
tartrate (gynergan) with excellent
results. ■. - .
Experience has shown that it
costs less to treat a patient at home
(when he is able to return home).
This is an important factor when
hospital beds are scarce.
• • •
Wanting to boss and run things
and yet feeling the need to be loved
and appreciated means that the
person is always under conflict
between these two emotions.
Ain’t It So
If we carry this world shrink-,
age and One World idea too far.
North America will in fact be
come No. America.
Romance must be a hardy In*,
stitution, otherwise it couldn’t:
survive the beating it gets
from the jukeboxes.
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% cup milk flour
2 tablespoons 2% teaspoons
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