The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 07, 1950, Image 6
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
WOMAN'S WORLD
plan Wisest Use of Home Closet Space
By Ertta Haley
aaODEKN HOME designers real
ize the necessity for plenty
Vf good closet space; indeed, if
they don’t, women will soon tell
them there must be plenty of it.
Not only do closets take care of a
lot of items for protective purposes,
but also to get items out of ^ooms
and thus prevent clutter.
Closets, like rooms, should be
(Planned with as much care as a
bedroom, kitchen or living room,
if they are to give their best serv
ice. Before you decide to tear down
wall to get more closet space,
to see if you’re using what
closet space you already have as
efficiently as possible.
Many aids have been introduced
to closets to make them more prac
tical, and these may well solve the
Keep closets neat ....
problem of proper storage, with
out necessitating more space for
the purpose.
Closets are no longer catch-alls.
With current trends, this little room
is being made into a thing of
beauty. Decorations for the closet
are matched as carefully as for
any room exposed to public view.
Color schemes can be planned to
match the room to which the closet
is nearest. If you don’t want them
to match the room, at least select
some mode of decoration which
will harmonize with the room to
which the closet opens.
Accessories may be made at
home if you have the time and in
clination. Otherwise, they may be
purchased with much the same
thought as you would buy other
accessories for the home, with a
plan and purpose.
Budget the items you want stored
in a certain closet, then lay out a
plan as to where each should be.
Then you’ll be well on the way to
ward getting the most space and
use from the storage space.
Type of Storage
Depends on Space
Armed with a plan of what the
closet is to hold, you’ll have no
p r o bl e m deciding whether you
should have shoe bags or a shoe
chest. Most shoe chests will hold
as many pairs as will the bags, but
they do take up floor space which
you may not have. Solve the prob
lem simply by having shoe bags
Smart Suit Dress
For busy days, nothing could
be smarter than this brown and
white nylon suit dress with its
batwing sleeved jacket that has
a shoulder spread collar over
laid with white pique, repeated
on the cuffs. The clender skirt
shows the current trend. Brown
patent is used for the belt.
attached to the back of the door
or the wall of the closet
If blankets and flat apparel are
to be stored in the closet, these are
best placed in plastic, zippered bags
with proper storage plan.
or boxes which open easily much
like drawers of a chest. If you have
shelves above the clothes rack, or
space available for shelves, this
is by far the best solution.
Any apparel of this type should
THE READER'S COURTROOM-
Crack in Back of Sacroiliac
-By Will Bernard, LL.B.-
If a Girl Gets Hurt Jitterbugging,
May She Collect Damages?
Hie members of a country club
decided to give a dance for a group
of soldiers stationed nearby, and a
number of girls were invited to act
as hostesses. During the party, one
of the soldiers asked a girl to dance
and she accepted—little realizing
What was coming. The soldier hap
pened to be a rabid jitterbug, and
Immediately began flinging his
partner around with reckless aban
don. The girl was terrified and
reamed for help, but no one came
her rescue. By the time the
ince was over, she had suffered an
jury to her sacroiliac 1 Later she
icided to sue the club for dam-
;es. The club officials argued that
e girl took her own chances in ac-
ipting the dance, but the court dis-
freed and granted her claim. The
dge said that an organization
onsoring a public affair of this
nd must at least try to protect
e hostesses from disorderly
tests.
• • *
A certain city council passed a
w authorizing police to kill any
>g found at large without a muz-
e. A few weeks later, an officer
>ticed an unmuzzled collie running
.ong the street and quickly shot
e animal. The dog’s owner had
le officer arrested on criminal
larges, claiming that the city had
3 right to condemn a dog that
asn’t doing any harm. But the
jurt held the law valid and found
ie policeman not guilty. The judge
lid that the ban on unmuzzled
oga was to guard the public health.
^
Is a Pedestrian Supposed
To Guess the Speed of
An Oncoming Car?
A businessman decided to walk
across the street from his office
for a cup of coffee. He noticed a
car approaching at a distance, but
figured that he still had plenty of
time to oross. He was wrong. The
car, which was exceeding the speed
limit, knocked him down. Injured,
the man sued for damages. At the
trial, the motorist tried to shift the
blame onto the pedestrian “for
starting across the street when he
could see how fast I was coming.”
But the court held the motorist
solely responsible for the accident.
The judge said that, while a pe
destrian must use due care, he
needn’t make “mathematical calcu
lations to see if he will beat an on
coming car.
• * *
If a Person Confesses '
A Crime in His Sleep,
May He be Convicted?
A prominent club woman was
slain one night, in a crime that baf
fled the city’s best detectives. A
few days later, a young man walked
into police headquarters and said:
“My roommate killed that woman.
He said so, very plainly, in his sleep
last night.” The roommate was ar
rested and brought to trial on
charges of murder—mainly on the
basis of his nocturnal “confession.”
However, the court ordered him
freed. The judge said that his so-
called confession would not stand
up in court, because it wasn’t made
“of his own free will.”
always be protected by boxes or
bags since closets do collect dust
as any other place in the house. On
shelves, they are ready to get into
easily. Label boxes for utmost effi
ciency.
Shelves such as those just de
scribed are also ideal for hat box
es, and these offer the best solu
tion for keeping headgear in as good
condition as possible. However, if
you do not feel there is sufficient
space for blankets as well as hat
boxes on the shelves in the closet,
it’s now possible to attach hat racks
or shelves to the backs of the doors
of the closet.
Protect hats stored on racks with
zippered or plastic covers made
for the purpose. If hats are in con
stant use, then only those used
seldom need protective coverings.
Shoe bags may be placed on the
lower halves of the doors, while
hat racks and shelves can go well
above them.
If you have a small closet which
will take care of only essential
clothing for a season, then you’ll
have to store clothing from another
season elsewhere. Don’t try to keep
all clothing in a small closet since
everything will suffer.
Be Smart!
The spirit of the new foot
wear is utterly feminine and
sophisticated. « Pictured here
are two current designs that
typify the variety of materials
now being used. At the left is
a basic suede decorated with
vari-colored leaves across the
toes. The leaves, besides giv
ing color contrast on the vel
vety white suede, also otter
the contrast of reptile leather.
At the right, shades of great
grandmother’s quilts come to
life in cotton patchwork on a
slipper, with an all-over lining
of polka dot.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Let's Recall Old-Time Virtues
I F YOU WERE a little girl, at
the Easter time, of, say, a hun
dred years ago, you would prob
ably find yourself in a family that
used several terms that are only
vaguely familiar to you, and of
which your children don’t know the
sound.
The family was probably “God
fearing.” That’s one of the words.
You would have often heard of
your “duty.” That’s another. Then
there was “modesty,” which has
gone out as a word and as a fact.
Other words stood for obedience,
respect, for elders, purity of speech,
avoidance of everything coarse or
degraded.
Easter was a time of prayer.
Some of it was automatic; some of
it was a mere social gesture. Some
of it struck the younger genera
tion as boring, and sometimes Sun
day was a day to dread.
But nevertheless, there was pray
er. Family groups strolled to church
in the spring sunshine. God was
thanked for domestic blessings;
God’s help was sought in insuffer
able griefs. Lent meant certain re
strictions, theatres and candy were
foregone for 40 days, and Lenteh
marriages took upon them a sober
character.
“Our Father”
So that Easter, when the physical
world burst into bloom, and door
yards were crowded with daffodils
and lilacs, and light lingered on
after suppertime, up and down un
der the elms and oaks of Main
"Godfearine" "o b
n e <* (
" . . . makes life worth while ..."
Street, was really a time of relief
and joy, and men and women who
couldn’t have analyzed their emo
tions, or the cause of them, yet
felt the glorious uplift and the sing
ing beauty of Eastertide.
God-fearing. Well, except in a
few cold, blue-nosed, unhappy
groups it wasn’t fear. One can’t put
the words “fear” and "father”
together, and we have a right to
say “Our Father.” It may have
been a rather sluggish type of be
lieving, but it was what Words
worth called “pure religion, breath
ing household laws.”
How much have your children had
of those “household laws?” Our
civilization was built up on them,
and it is the best the world has
ever known. Do your children know
the prayer that begins “Our
Father?”
Have they ever heard the wprd
“duty?” What does it mean to
them? Does it mean respect for
Dad and Mother, helpfulness about
the house, acceptance of restric
tion in freedom, in pocket money,
in hours wasted in amusement that
ought to be spent on homework?
Does “duty” mean manners and
politeness, pleasantness to Granny
and the aunts? Does it mean per
sonal cleanliness and neatness in
their rooms? Does it mean avoid
ing the dirty little jokes that cir
culate in school, the books whose
sole recommendation is that they
would shock the most sophisticated
reader?
A Lovely Virtue
And “modesty.” Modesty was a
lovely virtue. It meant that girls
didn’t expose their pretty young
bodies just beyond the inches of
coverage demanded by a lax law
that isn’t enforced. It meant that
they didn’t get drunk. It meant that
they weren’t conspicuous in night
clubs and saloons, and that their
language matched the niceness of
their speech, their books, their con
duct.
And 100 years ago they didn’t
have to be taken from comfortable
homes, either from the guardian
ship of parents, or the love of hus
band and children, to be put into
psychopathic wards, weeping that
they don’t like what they ought to
do and consequently don’t have any
thing to do, except occupational
therapy, behind bars.
A sense of duty, with all that it
implies, to parents, to husband and
home and children, to reading and
speech and to the smallest action,
is a great tonic. It makes life worth
while to be always holding oneself
up to higher levels of service and
of perfection. For the real seat of
duty is, of course, the human souL
We can’t go back a hundred
years; to parents who were “too
preachy,” to church services and
Sunday laws that made the sev
enth day a time to dread, to qeer-
ing at “old maids,” and paying a
hard-working servant 10 dollars a
month, to whalebone and crino
lines, to seven-course meals that
kept dear Papa in a constant state
of dyspepsia, and corsets that
squeezed the last breath of com
fort out of dear Mamma. To coal
stoves and kerosene lamps, whip
ping schoolmasters and cruel step
mothers.
But perhaps we could infuse faint
modernized strains of these old
virtues into today's roar and rush.
Easter makes one think of it. A
time for housecleaning and stock
taking. Prayer. Duty. Modesty,
Woman Follows
Odd Occupation
Probably Is Only U.S.
Anniversary Detective
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Maxine Allen
Schoyer has already worn out one
rug.
Attractive Mrs. Schoyer is un
usual in two ways: She is an anni
versary detective, and she’s the
only known history researcher who
does most of her work lying on her
stomach.
“I went shopping for a new rug
recently,” she said, “and the sales
woman was considerably upset when
I told her I wanted a comfortable
rug to lie on.”
Discovering anniversary dates
started out as a hobby with her.
Always a bear for history, as a for
mer newspaper reporter, adver
tising copy writer, radio commenta
tor and publicist she understands
the importance in keeping track of
the dates of past events.
The hobby is threatening to be
come a profitable business. Mrs.
Schoyer and her husband, William,
now publish an annual digest of im
portant anniversaries. Orders coma
from newspapers, radio stations, ad
agencies, publicity firms, librari
ans, free lance writers, publishing
firms, music publishers and from
people who like to read about anni
versaries the way others like to
read almanacs.
Maxine does the anniversary
hunting, with occasional spare time
assists from her three teen age
sons and husband, she edits the
volume.
There’s nothing that gives Mrs.
Schoyer more pleasure than getting
on the trail of a new anniversary
Anniversary fanciers consider «
first rate anniversary to be a first,
fifth, 10th, 25th, 50tti, 100th, 500th
or 1,000th.
She claims she lives constantly in
the past—finding anniversaries—or
in the future—compiling next year’*
edition. Never the present.
“There was one that was fun hunt
ing down,” she says. “It’s the 125th
anniversary of an experiment dis
proving the old superstition that
toads will live for ages in soUd
rock.
****** * * * * * * *,Aj
Serve Main Dish Salads for Variety
(See Recipes Below)
Vary Menus
I F THE WEATHER turns unsea
sonably warm and you wonder
with what food the family can be
tempted, why not try a main dish
salad?
If you’re going to have the wom
en’s club for lunch, why not make
work easy for
yourself, simply
by preparing a
molded salad
that needs only
garnishes and
serving at the
last minute?
It’s easy to
, make salads
look tempting because of their
fresh, jewel-like colors and crisp
touches.
S INCE the following salads all
contain- fish, meat or cheese
they can readily serve as a main
dish on one of those days when
you need variety in your meal
plans.
Tuna-Vegetable Salad
(Serves 6)
1 tablespoon gelatin
34 cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
2 cups shredded tuna fish
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped pickle
34 cup peas
1 teaspoon onion juice
Dissolve gelatin in cold water;
add boiling water, mix thoroughly
and allow to cool. Mix tuna fish,
lemon juice and pickle and let
stand until gelatin thickens. Then
add tuna mixture to it with peas
and onion juice. Pour into a wet
mold and let chill until firm.
Herring Salad
(Serves 12)
3 salt herring
2 medium sized apples
5 cups minced, cooked beets
34 cup minced onion
34 cup chopped dill pickle
34 teaspoon salt
34 cup French dressing
3 hard-cooked eggs
Soak herring In cold water for
one hour. Remove skin and bones;
cut into very
sip a 11 pieces.
Pare apples and
cut fine. Toss all
ingredients ex
cept eggs to
gether and chill
for two hours.
Serve on large
platter garnished
with chopped
egg whites, sprinkled with egg
yolks put through a sieve.
•Spiced Salmon Mold
(Serves 4-6)
1 pound canned salmon
2 packages lemon - fla
vored gelatin
134 cups boiling water
34 cup cold water
34 cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons vinegar
94 cup chill sauce
1 cup chopped celery
Arrange half of flaked salmon in
bottom of loaf pan. Dissolve gela
tin in boiling water. Mix well. Add
half of the gelatin mixture to the
chili sauce. Add cold water, lemon
juice, vinegar and salt to remain
ing gelatin mixture. Pour half of
the mixture over salmon flakes in
pan. Chill until congealed. Add
LYNN SAYS:
Add Color to Menus
To Tempt Appetites
Pot roast takes on a richer color
if you use diluted cranberry jelly
as the liquid for cooking. It adds a
novel, tart flavor, too.
Dried beef can be heated in bar
becue sauce, then served over split
buns which have been spread with
cheese and broiled.
Slices or shreds of ham mixed
in with potatoes au gratin will give
you a colorful supper dish as well
*« « flavor pleasing one.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Hot Vegetable Broth
•Spiced Salmon Mold
Olives
Mixed Pickles
Pickled Pears
Hot Parker House Rolls
Chocolate Pudding Beverage
•Recipe Given
Four-in-One
celery to chili sauce and pour over
jellied salmon. ChilL Then add re
maining salmon and remaining gel
atin mixture. Chill until firm.
Serve on a bed at shredded lettuce
with * garnish of lemon wedges,
sweet pickles and olives. Pass, if
desired, bread, butter and lettuce
sandwiches.
• • •
W HEN YOU WANT something
special for luncheon main
dish, there’s nothing that will set
the table off better than this toma
to red loaf:
Tomato Jelly Ribbon Loaf
(Serves 6)
Tomato layer:
2 cups canned or fresh to
matoes
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon pickling spice
34 teaspoon salt
1 stalk celery, diced
1 tablespoon plain gelatin
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon onion juice
34 cup water
Combine tomatoes, sugar, pick
ling spice, salt and celery. Sim-‘
mer for 10 min
utes. Strain.
Soften gelatin
in cold water,
then add to hot
tomato mixture
and. stir until
dissolved. Add
lemon and onion
juices.
Cheese Layer:
1 package cream cheese
(3 ounces)
34 cup mayonnaise
2 drops tabasco sauce
34 teaspoon salt
34 teaspoon plain gelatin
2 tablespoons cold water
Combine cream cheese, mayon
naise and seasonings. Soften gela
tin in cold water. Dissolve over hot
water and add to cheese mixture.
Pour half of tomato mixture into
oiled loaf pan (734 by 334 inches).
Chill until mixture is firm. Add
cheese mixture. When this has al
most set, add the remainder of
the tomato mixture. Serve sliced
on lettuce or other greens.
• * •
L uncheon guests wm also
find lobster served as a salad
a great favorite. The best of these
salads require few ingredients other
than the fish, and the seasonings
are simple.
4 Lobster Salad
(Serves 6)
2 cups lobster meat, freshly
boiled or canned
1 cup French dressing
34 cup diced celery
34 cup diced green pepper
34 teaspoon salt
34 cup mayonnaise
Break lobster meat into chunks.
Marinate in French dressing for
one hour. Drain, and add remain
ing ingredients. Mix lightly. Serve
on lettuce, garnished with lemon
slices.
Use mashed potatoes put through
the rosette end cf the pastry tube
as a garnish for the top of meat
loaf or a roast beef pie. Heat in
the oven until the potatoes have a
delicate golden brown color.
Dip single pork chops in milk,
then in crushed cornflakes. Sprinkle
with paprika while they are brown
ing and add a bit of diluted catsup
or tomato juice as a liquid in the
pan to give them lovely color.
Try serving your next batch of
chili over a bed of macaroni te
give it a novel look.
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It’s darling used as jumper, sun
dress, or without bib, as a skirt.
• • •
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