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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C WOMAN'S WORLD Don't Let Figure Defects Distress You | SolveGrooming Problem By Ertta Haley J7ACE AND FIGURE irregulari ties are common, but it's ex tremely doubtful they look as com mon as they really are for women have at their disposal the ways and means of enhancing their good points and minimizing those which are slightly out of line. A good example is seen in the slim silhouette so popular this sea son. As any designer can tell you, the slim look is something that is more of an achievement than it Is actual fact. That should come as good news to the girl whose figure is more plump than slender Faces don’t have to look as square or round either, as nature made them. With the right collar and hat effects, even these contours can be changed without covering them! It’s a good idea to be just as aware of our defects as of our good points, for that is the starting point of dressing properly. When you know what stands on each side f the beauty ledger, you can use all the tricks available to play up the good, and play down the fair or poor. Knowing your face and figure defects should not give you a com plex about them. When you have Cboost clothes with care .... properly concealed or played them down, you can forget about them secure in the knowledge that all has been done to make them least obvious. At the same time, you have accented or dramatized a cor responding good detail of appear ance so that is what will impress your friends and acquaintances when they see you. Choose fabrics and styles with as much care as you would make an important decision affecting any phase of life, and you’ll be better dressed and more confident in meet ing the public. Season’s Silhouette Helps All Figures The willowy effects which this season’s clothes strive to create will help the woman whose fig ure is plump, be she short or tall. Narrow vertical lines are used rather than wide horizontal ones. There are side drapes which will catch interest and thus draw it away from a midline that is not above reproach. Those who are tall and naturally slender may wonder where hr Ip for Fashions may change, but personal daintiness continues to be important as ever to good grooming. To neutralize per spiration, use baking soda in your bath in the proportion of one-half pound to a tub of water. If you prefer a shower, apply moistened baking soda over the entire body and then wash it away under the spray. them can come. The all-around pleated skirts are popular and made to order for throe with natural slenderness. They may choose from the boxy silhouettes, too, or the very wide, gored skirts which are just coming in. That's not all the good news, either! The two-piece fashions, be they tailored suits or casual bolero fashions, will give enough hori zontal lines to cut the tall figure down and give it more of the aver age look. No attempt should be made to hide slenderness. That is the silhouette of the season. If you have bony arms, look to full dramatic to minimize figure faults. sleeves to soften the angles. If the neckline is angles rather than curves, depend on the wide collars to do the right job. Hats can add or detract to the height of the figure. For those who are tall, there are sailors and wide- THE READER'S COURTROOM- Some Promises Aren't Binding -8y Will Bernard, LLB. Are You Bound by a Promise Made Under Great Emotional Stress? A sudden fire trapped a woman in the attic of her home, and fire men were unable to reach her. In the midst of the blaze, the woman’s husband returned from his office. Frantically, he cried: “I’ll pay $5,- 000 to anybody^ who brings out my .wife—dead or alive!’’ A bystander rushed into the flaming house, fought his way upstairs, and car ried the woman out. Unfortunately. 'she had already died from suffoca tion. Later the rescuer demanded the $5000 he had. been promised. The husband pleaded that he should not be bound by a promise under such circumstances, but the' court ruled that he must indeed pay the full amount. The judge pointed out that the bystander had risked his own life to fulfill the husband’s plea—and therefore was entitled to his reward. • • • An advertising executive quar relled with his wile almost daily. At last, after an especially bitter ex change, they decided to call it quits. Acting on a friend’s advice, they soon obtained a “mail order di vorce’’ from a court in a foreign country—without ever leaving town! However, when the decree was test ed later in a United States court, the couple found out that they were still considered husband and wife. The judge said that the foreign court had no jurisdiction over the parties. A woman wrote a magazine arti cle maliciously—and inaccurately- attacking the character of George Washington. Acting on the protests of outraged citizens, the police ar rested the writer on charges of de famation. At the trial, she argued that her attack couldn’t do any harm—because Washington and his family were all dead anyhow! But the court found the woman guilty as charged. The judge said that it was wrong to maliciously blacken the name of a person who still lived in the memories of his countrymen. May You Stop The Neighbor's Dog From Howling? A doctor fitted up a room at the back of his home, and began using it as an office. All went well until a new family moved in next door— with a dog. Every morning the neighbors would go out for about two hours, leaving the dog locked in a bedroom. During that time, the animal would give vent to such a howling and yelping that the doc tor could hardly examine his pa tients. At last he went to court for an injunction. The neighbors arg ued that there is nothing unlawful about the barking of a dog, but the court granted the doctor’s request. The judge said a dog’s noisemak ing is ordinarily permissible, but at least must be kept within reason able bounds! brimmed hats which minimize height. Those who are short and full figured can select p hat on which the trimming is perched aigh so that longer lines will be achieved. Short, full figured girls can choose the single breasted s iits that give the illusion of slenderness. Those who are slender and tall will like double breasted fashions that pad the figure. Coat Styles Solve Figure Problems Those who are short and heavy may well borrow a tip from the ex perts on wearing coats properly. The advice is this: never wear your coat or jacket open as it will draw attention to the inside figure. The long, unbroken front of a closed coat can do much to give the illu sion of slenderness. The easy fitting coats, the half belts and dull-finished fabrics which help to give the slender silhouette are widely available now. Short stout figures should make a special effort to shop for them. Thick, bulky, textured fabrics a- 3 taboo on large figures. The sheer fabrics which are now making fashion news come as a big help for those who want to cut down their size. 1 Be Smart! ] Play up sleeves because it’s been practically generations since they’ve been as drama tic as they are today. Sketched here are two examples of cur rent successes. The separate blouse at the left makes use of fine pleating to create truly dramatic sleeves,' the kind that are born to bloom without a suit jacket, of course. Today’s permanent pleating in ever so many materials makes laundry and cleaning no problem. At the right, developed in sheer wool checks, is one of the youthful versions of the sea son, sleeves that give the dress the earmark of the season. KATHLEEN NORRIS Divorce Is as Much a State... r#T GOT MARRIED without know- I ing anything about marriage. And five years later I got a di vorce without knowing anything about divorce.’’ This sentence in a letter that came to me this week expressed something that I had never thought out before. I mean that divorce is just as definite a state as mar riage is, and an even more diffi cult and complicated one. “Before I had worked out any of the problems of marriage,’’ the letter goes on, “I found myself with a whole set of new ones, as a divorced woman. I hadn’t made Hal’s home comfortable, I was restless and dissatisfied, always wishing that I was back on my old job, with $40 a week to throw away just as I pleased. I was bored with dust, dishes, and eventually baby. Yvonne was a delicate baby, I was nearly mad with nerves, and ‘men tal cruelty’ provided an escape. “Escape! You know what I es caped into. I’d never made the slighest effort to make Hal’s peo ple J>ke me, and they didn’t. “I did go back to my old job, but it wasn’t the same thing, with my little girl’s claims tearing at my heart. I tried combining with a girl friend who had a small boy; that didn’t work. I tried boarding homes; Vonnie and I were miser able through all those years. I felt myself neither one thing nor another, and when Von was 12 I married again. Could Have Been Friends “It was a mistake. I saw the mistake all the sooner because I had strangely enough made a close friend of Hal’s sister, and through her, of his mother. We could have been friends all the time. If I hadn’t been so immature and so nearly mad with nerves . spoiled. My second husband had good points, but business acumen wasn’t one of them; I found my self supporting • him and second baby daughter. “So when Von made a foolish young marriage, followed within two years by a divorce, I divorced also, and we combined forces. I now am back at the old job I ran away from 17 years ago, with Von supporting the family with pay ments frCm the fathers of both children, and myself cook and nurse for all four of us. “I am only 40, but my life as a loved, protected wife is over. Von sees, her father, who is married again and has two boys; I never see anyone. I go to movies in the evening; my daytime hours are crowded with domestic duties, and I am tired all the time Mother Takes Blame “Deep in my heart I blame my own mother, who was also divorced in my childhood, but perhaps Von has as good a right to blame me. She is pretty and popular at 19, and of course will marry again. Then I don’t know what will be come of me. A job, 1 suppose, and some arrangement for my little Marie-Louise such as I made for Von. This youngest little girl is very gentle and clinging, and it kills me to think that she has not the secure, happy home back ground of other children. “I know I have made a mess of my life, and that if I had known the true values of things 15 years ago, I might have .made a success of my first marriage, and perhaps spared Von her own mistake.’’ This is only one of a thousand just such hopelessly complicated situations of which I hear every year. It seems impossible to con vince our children of just two simple truths. One: that no mar riage is easy; that it has to be worked out with the utmost strength of character. And two: that the outcome of a happy, strongly-knit marriage, no matter how difficult to achieve, is the most worthwhile thing in the world. And perhaps we should add three: that divorce isn’t freedom; it is, instead, a plunge into deeper and deeper complications. A certain Chicago divorce at torney, one Samuel M. Starr, is trying to do something about the appalling increase of divorces in these United States. He has estab lished “Divorces Anonymous.’’ My respect, admiration and best wishes accompany Mr. Starr in this undertaking. More power to him! Of the thousands of letters I receive every year on this subject of divorce, more than half are from men and women who admit that, had they an opportunity to try again with the same partner, they would find it easier to make the first marriage a success than to make the divorce one. In many, many small homes there are vaguely dissatisfied wom en who somehow expected married life to be more varied. Is It Raining? Just Drop Coin New Vending Machine Hands Out. Umbrellas GARY. IND.—No need to worry about sudden showers. Just pur chase an umbrella from a vending machine at a department store, depot, airport—even at a baseball game! Such a possibility may be come a reality soon, all because of an idea that came to Jane Burgess, an Indianapolis, Ind., housewife and mother of three children, reports National Patent Council. Mrs. Burgess’s idea came to her out of necessity. Caught in the rain without an umbrella and without money enough with her to purchase even the cheapest umbrella she could find, Mrs. Burgess began thinking—someone should invent a throw-away umbrella that would cost well under a dollar. The idea haunted her until at Christmastime last year she came across a little folding Christmas bell. There was the answer, and her idea material ized. She and her husband. Bob, a rail road conductor, developed the idea. Then they took their umbrella to a friend, Curtiss McCoy, a toy and gadget manufacturer. He liked what he saw, and by early summer their product was ready for marketing. The product consisted of a neat packet of black, accordion-pleated, waterproof paper, 16% inches long, and a wooden rod 19 inches long. Unfold the paper into a circle, snap together, insert the rod in a metal holder, and the result is a service able “papersol.’’ With their idea ready to be mar keted and already accepted by one Indianapolis store, the inventive Burgess had to face still an other problem. There was no ma chine available that would fold pa per into accordion pleats. So Bob went to work and, with his type writer, scored paper so that it could be evenly pleated. Later the job was turned over to a company with ma chinery for scoring, until a machine for such pleating could be manufac tured. Appeal to Appetites With Novel Methods Of Food Preparation I T ISN’T ALWAYS the elaborate meal that tastes the best, nor the most expensive food that makes the family call for more. When the food, no mat ter what it may be, is cooked perfectly and served attrac- lively, it’s bound to please. Certain foods should not be allowed to over cook, as they will lose their appetite appeal because texture is destroyed. This is true of both fish and cheese, so popular in menus right now. Fish is delicate and tender. - To have it reach perfection, time its cooking to the minute. Tlien you’ll have fish anyone can enjoy! Cheese becomes stringy when cooked at too high temperatures. Cooked slowly and carefully, it’s mouth-watering, creamy texture is preserved. • * • A DD A DELIGHTFUL garnish to foods if you find they aren’t going over too well with the family and serve them as beautifully as you possibly can. You’ll be sur prised how much of a difference in their acceptance this little but thoughtful touch can make. - *Pan-Baked Perch (Serves 6) Place two one-pound packages of ocean perch fillets in a baking dish. Add salt and pepper to taste. Melt % cup butter and mix in 2% cups cracker crumbs. Cover the fillets with the butter-crumb mix ture. Sprinkle with chopped parsley, If desired. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate (350°) oven or until fish is done and the crumbs browned. Serve with pickled onions and beets. • • » TJERE’S A RICH and spicy sal- mon casserole which will give you a complete meal when served with a fruit salad: Spicy Salmon Casserole (Serves 4) 1 pound canned salmon 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 34 cup catsup 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 36 pound American cheese, grated Toasted crackers Flake the salmon and arrange in bottom or individual dishes. Melt butter in top of double boiler. Stir in flour and add milk. Cook slowly until smooth and slightly thick ened. Add cat sup, sauce and cheese; cook un til cheese is ' melted. Arrange toasted crackers around edge of baking dish. Heat thoroughly in a moderate (375°) oven for 20 min utes, or until cheese sauce bub bles. Serve at once. O YSTERS have a rich mineral content and are especially de lightful when prepared in this man ner and served with rice: Oysters Poulette (Serves 4) 1 pint oysters Fish is easily and attractive ly prepared for the table when pan-baked and served with a topping of crumbs and en circled with pickled beets and onions. LYNN SAYS: You Can Make Laundering Speedier and Easier If you can’t get to all the ironing after it’s dampened, store in plas tic cloth or cellophane bags in re frigerator to prevent mildew. Lace tablecloths and bedspreads need no ironing if they are placed on a curtain stretcher for drying. They shape beautifully. Never dry blankets in harsh sun light. Shade is best for keeping their color as well as their texture as new as possible. Lenten meals can be made nourishing as well as pleasing if you make a main dish out of a rich soup such as this creamy rich asparagus and cheese combination. A simple salad and dessert completes the meal. LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU •Pan-Baked Perch Baked Potatoes Pickled Onions and Beets Hot Biscuits Pineapple-Pear Salad Lemon-Frosted Cupcakes Beverage '•Recipe Given lemon 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 36 teaspoon salt 36 teaspoon pepper 34 cup nutmeg 136 cups milk 34 cup cream 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons juice 2 cups boiled rice Drain oysters and cook two to three minutes or until their edges curl. Melt butter, stir in flour, salt and pepper, and' when well blend ed, add milk and cream. Cook, stirring, until thickened. Add nutmeg and slightly beaten egg yolks. Cook gently, then fold in oysters and lemon juice. Serve in a border of rice, gar nished, if desired, with green pep per or pimiento and parsley. • • • *PHE APPEAL of baked or broiled 1 fish is enhanced if they are served with one of the following sauces: Tartar Sauce 1 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon minced pickles 1 tablespoon minced parsley 1 tablespoon minced capers 1 tablespoon minced onion Mix ingredients together and serve. Cucumber Sauce 1 tablespoon butter. 1 tablespoon flour 36 cup milk 36 cup mayonnaise 36 cup finely diced cucum bers, drained 36 teaspoon salt 36 teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons lemon juice Melt butter, add flour and grad ually blend in milk. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Let cool, then add remaining ingred ients. Serve well chilled. Asparagus-Cheese Soup (Serves 5-6) 2 No. 1 cans of asparagus or 2 medium bunches 3 cups milk 4 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 36 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon minced onion 1 tablespoon minced parsley 1 cup grated American cheese Remove 10 choice tips about 236* long, split lengthwise and cook un til tender; use for garnish. If using canned vegetable, set 10 tips aside, as above. Cut remainder of aspara gus fine, cook until tender, then press through a coarse sieve. Measure puree and liquid; there should be about two cups. Melt but ter, add onion and cook slightly Add flour and blend, then add salt. Add milk, stirring constantly Cook until smooth and thickened. Add puree. Just before serving, add grated cheese, stirring until melted. Add parsley and serve garnished with asparagus tips. Turkish towels will shrink slight ly when they are washed the first few times as their knit is drawn closer together. They will reach maximum absorbency after four 01 five washings. , A bit of glycerine added to the last rinse for woolen things will make them softer and smoother. Do not dry any woolens near heat. Mops can be washed in luke warm water and mild suds just as such clothing is laundered. Do it frequently to keep mnpg condi tioned. For Your Future Buy U.S. Savings Bonds SCRIPTURE:: Matthew 21:1-18: J Peter 4:12-19: Revelation 7:9-17. DEVOTIONAL READING: Romans 8:16-18. Trial and Triumph Lesson for April 5, 195# There is a popular notion^ float- ion.^ ing around to the effect that God gives good people an easy time. It is not always put just that way. But when a man who has been good (or thinks he has, or has tried to be), runs into trouble, he asks right away, “Why must this hap pen to Me?’’ The truth of the mat ter is better expressed in the lines of an old hymn: “Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, . While others fought to win the prize. Or sailed through bloody seas?” Jesus was incomparably the best who ever lived; yet bis moments of popularity were short, and he was finally tor tured and killed by the head ers of church and state, amid the jeering approval of masses of the people. He himself said that any follower of his must be willing to take up his own cross. “In the world you will have tribulation,” he said to his disciples. • • • All Tyrants Hate the Church Victory—When? eejF WE SUFFER with him we shall also reign with him,’* said St. Paul. But when and how? The end of the church’s struggles could come in either of two Ways. One way would be for the church to give up struggling against the world. Let the church become a club for the sociable, let the church raise no voice of protest against in justice in society, against untruth, violence and greed; let the church give in to the world, in short, and she will have no further trouble from the world. But in that case she would be dead. Another way Is for the church finally to overcome the world. The triumph of the true church ip the same as the tri umph of divine Love. That is the future to which the Bible bids us look. When? We do not know. But the Kingdom comes “one heart at a time,’’ and with every soul the church wins from the world-way to the Christ-way, the victory of Love draws nearer. HAPPY DAYS NOW— NOT CONSTIPATED happier, younger now itedlEai “I feel happier, younger now, not constipated! Eating your ALL-B RAN does so much for me! What relief, after so many If wonderful sills and medicines. Pi Ever your friend, W.H. Rooney, Detroit r ? YOU HAD BEEN on the top of the city wall on that first Palm Sunday, watching the crowds roar ing into Jerusalem, and some one had told you that all the shouting was for Jesus of Nazareth, you would certainly have thought that his success was assured. Here, surely, was a King who had arrived! But before the week was out you would have Seen this same Jesus oq trial for his life, and not a voice Dr - Foreman raised in his defense. The same dusty-throated mob on that Sunday shouted “Hosanna! Blessed is He!” was shrieking on Friday morning, “Crucify him!’ ' Flowery Beds or Bloody Seas? 2, Mich. Just one of many unsolicited let ters from ALL-BRAN users. If you suffer from constipation due to lack of dietary bulk, try eating an ounce of crispy Kellogg’s ALL BRAN daily, drmk plenty of water I If not completely satisfied after 10 days, send empty carton to Kellogg’s. Battle Creek, Midi. Get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK I "FOR PROUD BAKERS, ESPECIALLY *pHE MORE GENUINELY Chris- A tian the church is, the more it is likely to run into opposition There are several reasons for this. For one thing, the church stands -for love, and the generosity and un selfishness, the sympathy and even the sacrifice that go with love and are produced by it But “what makes the world go ’round,’ —the world of the politician, the 'money-maker, the social climber, the war-maker, the world of the power-thirsty in every sphere— what makes that world go ’round is pride, selfishness, shovinff- ahead, Me-firstness. The selfish and the proud do not tak« kindly to love of the Christian sort indeed they despise it as a weakness. But the churob, when it Is a true church, stands up fer Hu manity even when it has to stand against Profits; and the man for whom Profit is the first law of life never under stands the attitude of the church. 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