The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 21, 1950, Image 3
WOMAN'S WORLD
Familiarity With Patterns Will Aid in Fitting Garments
By Ertta Haley
r lS WAY In which you wear
your clothes is just as impor
tant as the styles you have chosen.
Unless you are comfortable in a
dress, blouse, suit or coat, the most
fashionable garment will not give
you the poise and grooming you
should expect.
Many women avoid expensive
alterations on clothes by making
their own, and in this way they can
achieve both fashion and correct
fit with the least amount of ex
pense.
Figures which are hard to fit
without extensive alterations can
readily be clothed with clothes
sewed at home, provided you know
just how to alter patterns to make
them fit.
So much ease, comfort and feel
ing right can come from clothes
that fit accurately that once you’ve
treated yourself to a well fitted
garment, you’ll never be satisfied
with less. Not only will clothes do
more for you, but you’ll enjoy
wearing them as well as showing
them off 4o best advantage.
Clothing which fits perfectly al
so has the advantage of wearing
better, but will require less care
and attention than ill-fitted gar
ments simply because they wrinkle
less readily and need less frequent
cleaning and pressing.
When you take measurements,
remove any bulky pieces of ap
parel so that you can arrive at
your true measurements. If you
wear a certain foundation garment,
have this on when you whip out
the tape measure.
Keep the measurements on a
handy card so that you may al
ways have them on hand. This
card should be kept up-to-date
with frequent measurement checks
if you are gaining or losing weight.
Make Adjustments in Pattern
Rather than at Seams t
Essential line and style in a pat
tern can be changed or lost only
by shortening and lengthening at
waist or hemline. Therefore, you
see many alterations can be made
within a pattern itself without
Changing the basic style. You may
have fit plus style with internal
pattern adjustments.
Never be misled by seam, pleat
and dart allowances. These should
be cut, pinned and sewed as di
rected on the pattern or the cloth-
Burlap Fashions
Casual shoes and matching
parse fashioned of burlap and
simulated leather were Intro
duced as sun mates for warm
weather wear. The rough tex
tured burlap gives a textured
effect which Is both novel and
new in the fashion picture.
ing will not have proper fullness,
slenderness or other features which
make for good styling.
Even if you need so little as a
half an inch in the bodice of a
dress, don’t try to get the neces
sary extra room by failing to slash
the garment. If you try to get the
room from the seam allowance,
the seam may pull open. When you
repair the damage, you will actual
ly be making the garment so small
it cannot ever fit properly.
Clothes which are made too
roomy are as poorly fitted as those
which struggle to keep on your fig
ure. When you place the tape meas
ure around yourself, do not pull
tightly on it, nor let it fall too
loosely. It should be so comfort
able you do not really feel it, and
to have clothes fit perfectly.
this Is the way the finished gar
ment should be on you.
Accurate measuring and cutting
of the garment will save both pa
tience and material. There is no
need to make the garment a little
large in the cutting to make allow
ance for errors in sewing, for you
■THE READER'S COURTROOM-
Some Oaths Need a Little Salt
-By Will Bernard, LL.B-
Should Statements Under Oath
Be Taken With a Grain of Salt?
^ man went bankrupt, and was
hailed into court by his creditors.
At the hearing, he admitted that he
had had $5,000 in cash just a few
days before—but claimed he bad
lost it all. 'T was walking down the
■treet,” he related, ’'carrying this
money in a satchel. While waiting
for a street car, I happened to look
down and I noticed that the bag had
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fallen off—and 1 was holding only
the handle! Since the bag was no
where to be seen, I threw away the
handle and went home.” Though
there was no way to disprove the
story, the judge decided he just
didn’t believe it—and ordered the
man to "find” the $5,000 somehow.
The judge figured that, although
the story was told under oath, it
was too incredible to be taken with
out a grain of salt.
• • •
A miniature golf course was Il
luminated by a network of over
head lights. After a heavy wind
storm, one of the wires was left
sagging about six feet above the
ground. Several days later, a girl
was walking underneath that wire
when a bumblebee swooped down
at her. She flung her arm upward
—end hit the wire. The girl got a
nasty shock, and later sued the
proprietor for damages. At the
trial the proprietor argued that
girl bad "brought the injury
upon herself.” But he lost the case.
Does the Law Recognize
The Principle of
"Cause and Effect?"
This famous case, which arose in
the year 1770, laid down a doctrine
that is still considered basic in our
legal system. Mr. A, bent on mis
chief, threw a giant firecracker—
lighted—into a crowded market
place. It landed at the feet of Mr.
B, who snatched it and frantically
flung it away. This time the sput
tering thing landed near Mr. C.
who also threw it away to save
himself. The firecracker then fell
beside Mr. D, and exploded. Mr. D
was injured, and sued Mr. A for
damages. Mr. A protested that he
had thrown the firecracker at Mr.
B, not at Mr. D. But the court
held him responsible anyhow.
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May You Strike Somebody
For "Sassing" You?
A newsboy took a lively dislike to
a storekeeper, and on several occa
sions he made faces at the man.
One day the boy tried his stunt Just
once too often. The merchant seized
an umbrella that was handy and
smacked his tormentor on the head.
Arrested on a charge of assault and
battery, the man insisted that his
action was justified by the boy’s
constant "sassing.” However, the
court disagreed and found him guil
ty as charged. The judge said it
takes more than "dirty looks” to
Justify an attack of this kind.
will only waste material by having
to trim off.
Once the pattern Is selected ac
cording to the measurements, you
may baste it together and try it
on; or, make an inexpensive mus
lin garment first and work from
that to check fit.
Slash or Tuck Patterns
According to Needs
If your bodice is shorter than
the pattern allows, lay one tuck
straight across the pattern. In this
case the side seams may need
slight tapering, and is easily ac
complished by laying paper under
neath the pattern so you can make
a dotted line indicating the taper
ing.
To shorten sleeves, lay folds
straight across to take up the extra
length. If the sleeve is very long,
make one tuck above and one be
low the elbow.
Shorten the waist by folding the
desired depth between the under
arm and the waistline. Be certain
to make the adjustment on each
piece of pattern.
Skirt pieces are shortened in the
same way as the waist. In this
case, have each part of the skirt
shortened the same amount, and at
the same position. This is partic
ularly important so that pattern
notches will match, and so that a
gored skirt will fit well.
When you are adding length
rather than subtracting it, use the
slash technique. Pin the pieces to
a paper strip, or baste them to ex
tra paper if you want to use the
pattern several times.
Making slashes to give width or
length and neglecting to pin to an
extra piece of paper, may result
in your losing the 'pattern pieces.
If the pattern is not seperated and
simply a slash made without pin
ing to extra paper, you may not
get the required amount of extra
material, as the pattern is apt to
slip during the cutting.
For a large arm, add the extra
width along the edges, tapering
from armhole to waist. If much
extra width is needed, cut pattern
on grain line, separate evenly and
pin to paper.
Make Waist and Hip
Adjustments Carefully
For narrow hips, take off a little
at the hipline cm the*'side seams of
the skirt. Make certain that the
line is tapered to the hem so the
skirt will fall properly.
If only a little additional material
is needed at the hips, the adjust
ment may be made at the side
seams, tapering off at the waist
and hemline. When more than a lit
tle is needed, an even amount can
be allowed along the side seam of
the skirt from hip to hem.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Find Happiness in Present Lot
lurlMI CATES is a Philadelphia
woman who represents a large
class, and a very unhappy class.
She is afraid she is losing her
mind.
Our hospitals just now unfortu
nately are full of women in similar
situations, and all doctors count
these cases by the dozen. Nothing
is really the matter with Mimi,
but she has managed to work her
self into a state when she trembles
and perspires for no apparent
cause, can’t eat, can’t sleep, cries
constantly, hates solitude, hates
company, and generally is causing
her husband, her children, her
mother and everyone else who
loves her alternate states of im
patience and despair.
The secret of all this is that
Mimi is bored with her job. She
may not know it, but that explains
it all. She’s tired of dust and dishes
and budgeting and watching the
market, and the dentist and the
bridge club and her winter hat and
half-melted snow and everything
else. When a woman loves her job,
she is well. When she hates it, she
sometimes goes into these phycho-
pathic disorders. Mimi is headed
for the mental hospital. She will
not be happy there. She will be
doing there some of the jobs she
might be doing peacefully at home,
only instead of household duties
they call them occupational thera
py.
Need for Success
Under Mimi’s discontent, that
raging restlessness that sweeps
her off her feet at intervals, mak
ing everyday home life utterly in
sufferable, is a half-recognized
feverish need for success; the sort
of success with which magazines
and newspapers are full. Travel,
excitement, mink coats, fame,
money, these are being displayed
. . bates solitude, company . .
to Mimi all day long. Wherever
she turns she sees the complacent
pictures of other women, not much
younger and not any smarter than
she is, women floating in a very
sea of adulation and luxury.
The women of past generations
didn’t worry about these things be
cause, for one thing,’ there were no
radios, movies, illustrated maga
zines, to keep them perpetually
tortured by contrast. And for
another thing housekeeping, home-
making, mothering, wifehood,
were all jobs of much more im
portance and repute. Successful
professional women, Rachel,
George Eliot, Bernhardt, were re
garded with an admiration that
had no envy in it The highest
profession was that of the wife;
and incidentally she had a lot more
to do.
Now much could be said and has
been said, of the deceptive appear
ance of flashing successes in Holly-
wood, on the stage, or in the spot
light of sensational marriages and
divorces. But saying it only makes
fame-thirsty obscure young wom
en angry. They’ll take the fame
and the money, thanks, and take
chances on later disillusionment
and being forgotten.
Forget Yourself
So 1 omit such moralizations
Frenchmen Seek
Record Heigh!
26,825-Foot Mountain
In Nepal Trio^ Goal
PARIS, FRANCE—Six veteran
French mountain climbers have
left for the Himalayas to try to
climb higher and faster than men
ever climbed mountains before.
Target of their assault is Mount
Dhaulagiri, a rugged 26.825 foot
neak in Nepal', between India and
Tibet. It never has been attempted
before according to lean-faced. 41-
year-old Maurice Herzog, expedi
tion leader.
‘‘No human has ever seen the top
of this mountain.” Herzog said. "If
we reach the peak, it will be the
first time a summit of this altitude
will have been reached."
Dhaulagiri is about 200 miles
west of Mount Everest, the world’s
tallest mountain (29.002 feet),
which men l\gve been trying un
successfully for decades to scale.
The highest mountain in North
America. Alaska’s Mount McKin
ley. is 20.300 feet.
"Our object,” said Herzog, "is
not only to reach a higher summit
than has ever been climbed, but to
do it faster We will use many mod
em tactics and much new equip
ment, such as nylon ropes, tents
and clothing. Much of the equip*
ment will be aluminum.”
The French government is financ
ing a third of the expedition costs.
The rest of the expenses are being
paid by private backers and the
Alpine club of France. \
Herzog has climbed all the French
Alpine peaks worth climbing and
some in Switzerland. He is keer
to get started.
“Our greatest danger is the mon
soon,” he said.
SCRIPTURE: Amos, (especially 4:1-2;
6*1-6* 8*4-7)
DEVOTIONAL READING: Jeremiah
18:1-8.
Nation Going Soft
Lesson for April 23, 1950
Dr. Foreman
that all his
here. I only say to women like
Mimi—make your present job a
success first. Forget yourself.
Plunge with absolute passion into
the business of creating an ideal
home, to which a happy man and
eager children can’t wait to return
after the day. You can do it.
Then think out the line In which
you would like to express yourself,
the sort of work you know you
could do. Get ready for It, and
just as sure as you do, you’ll find
it. Perhaps it’s writing children’8
stories. You’ve always known you
could, but after a few tries, you’ve
stopped. Perhaps it’s doing pastel
portraits, or acting in radio plays,
or designing dresses, making po
litical speeches. Or possibly
there’s a good future for you in
somewhat humbler lines.
Women have won all the good
things women love—money, travel,
fame—because they saw some lit
tle gap in the familiar domestic
setup, and filled it with some very
special bread, or apron, or jam, or
method of helping children study,
or the patenting of a sweater.
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And believe me, when success
comes that way, in easier finances,
in the royal right to give the ones
you love the extra delights and
luxuries for which they long, in
the flattering recognition of your
friends, you'll find that success is
sweeter than most of sugary stuff.
The crackling divorces of the
world’s great ought to be proof
to us all that happiness is a quali
ty brewed in a much quieter atmo
sphere. For if you reach your goal
with no one to love, money and
fame are only the more maddening.
A FTER the fraternity dance one
of the "brothers” shot another,
for no good reason. Wep, there was
a reason of a sort. The killer was
drunk, on Uquor the fraternity had
bought and served
him. H i s excuse,
when arrested, was
that when he was
"tight” he was trig
ger - happy. ... A
prominent motion
picture star di
vorces her husband
for cruelty. It
comes out at the
trial that he was
mean anyhow, and
meannesses got worse when he was
drunk. One wonders: Did she know
him very well before she married
him? '
Every day the papers carry re
ports of cars that "went out of con
trol” with serious or fatal results.
Careful reading of the story too
often brings out the fact that the
boys had been visiting a night-spot
or two before the crash. Survivors
will tell the police they couldn’t
have been drunk, they had only had
•a few beers. Well, you don’t have to
be drunk to let a car get out from
your control. This writer personally
bas observed a driver who had had
exactly one beer run a car right off
the' pavement in broad sunlight.
• • •
Gets Monotonous, ^
Doesn’t It?
A SEX CRIME is committed by a
middle-aged man w^o sheds
tears over it afterward and can
hardly remember anything about it.
"I never would have done it if I had
been sober,” he says ... A girl is
found murdered in a men’s room
ing-house, a nice girl too.
Nobody was drunk—they had
only been taking a few drinks
... A 27-year-old woman was
shot and killed during an argu
ment with her sister-in-law. The
shooting, it was claimed, was
accidental. They had been hav
ing some friendly beers In a
near-by tavern "for a couple of
hours” ifefore the shooting.
After they got home, there was
pin ifgument. One woman got her
husband’s revolver out to scare the
other woman, and the first thing
she knew, she was being arrested
for murder. Her husband told the
police that when sober his wife was
"deathly scared” of guns.
(Beer, the brewers’ ads tell us, is
the-friendly drink, it is the drink of
moderation; "Beer Belongs.” It
does, indeed, b t ut where? Possibly
that unfortunate killer-woman had
believed what the ads told her.) ...
• • •
The Truth About Liquor
W ELL . . . this could be strung
out to the length of several col
umns, without half trying. The
above items are not from some
chamber of horrors conducted by
the W.C.T.U., not from a sermon by
some Anti-Saloon league preacher,
but gathered from newspaper items
from a few days’ papers in a city
which certainly is not prejudiced
against liquor.
The truth about liquor can
.never be learned from the ad
vertising pages, it can be better
learned from the news columns.
Better yet, if you want to know
the truth about it, ask the law
yers, doctors and ministers you
know. Ask the lawyers if their
business would be brisker or
slower if liquor were not in ex
istence. x
Ask the doctors whether steady
drinkers have stronger or weaker
resistance to disease. Ask the min
isters if they know of any troubles
in their congregations due to liquor.
(And if even church people have
troubles with it, what about people
with no religion?)
• • •
Drink and Doom
r V IS NOT TRUE that if Uquor
were totaUy aboUshed from the
earth, all the troubles of mankind
would vanish. Man has too much
meanness in him. A sober scoun
drel is one of the worst. But it is
true that liquor lends itself all too
easily to aU sorts of troubles, all
sorts of sins. When Amos thunders
against the evils of his time, drunk
enness is one of the sins prominent
on his Ust. »
Remember that in Amos' time
there was no whisky, no bran
dy, no distiUed Uquors, only
"mild” stuff like wine. Every
denunciation of drink in the
Bible is directed against what
would now be called Ught wine
and beers.
One thing is as certain now as it
was in Amos’ time: A nation that
insists on having its Uquor is not
the nation God will insist on saving
when its day of doom arrives.
(Copyright by the International council
of Religious Education on behalf of 41
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
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Leftover Ham and Eggs
Make Interesting Dish
For Supper, Luncheon
U’LL BE GLAD to have ham
leftover from your Easter din
ner as weU as
those hard-cooked
eggs from the tra
ditional Easter
egg hunt. Both
can help make
your menus in
teresting if you
add a few glam
orous touches to
them.
You can serve juicy pink sUces
of ham in sandwiches or with salad
as long as you can slice them, but
when you get down to the smaUer
pieces, then you may be looking for
such recipes as caU for diced or
ground ham.
*Ham a la King in Toast Cups
(Serves 6)
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon diced onion
H teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
4 tablespoons flour
cups milk
1 cup diced, cooked celery
2 cups julienned cooked ham
4 sliced hard-cooked eggs
K teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
Melt butter, add onion and cook
until tender over low heat, while
stirring. Add seasonings and flour;
blend. Add milk and cook until thick
ened, stirring constantly. Add cel
ery, ham, sliced eggs and Wor
cestershire sauce, reserving a few
egg slices to garnish top. Heat and
serve in hot toast cups.
Toast Cups
6 thin slices bread
3 tablespoons melted butter
Remove crusts from bread slices.
Brush^both sides of each slice with
melted butter. Press into six, three-
inch muffin pans with two points
each side. Bake in a moderately
hot oven (375°) for 12 minutes im-
til lightly browned.
Smoked Ham-Pineapple Patties
(Serves 6)
3 cups ground leftover ham ,
K cup dry bread crumbs
H teaspoon ground cloves
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 eggs '•
6 slices canned pineapple
Combine meat, crumbs, season
ings, sugar, and well beaten eggs.
Mix thoroughly. Form into six flat
patties. Arrange pineapple slices
In a shallow baking pan. Place a
patty on each ring. Bake in a hot
oven (325*) about 25 minutes or
until browned.
Ribbon Egg Salad
t (Serves 6)
12 hard-cooked eggs
French dressing
2 tablespoons unflavored gela
tin
H enp cold water
34 cap buying water
134 cups salad dressing
2 teaspoons minced onion
3 tablespoons lemon juice
34 teaspoon salt
34 cup chopped parsley
Separate yolks and whites. Force
the yolks through a sieve and moist
en with French dressing. Press the
yolks firmly onto bottom of greased
mold. Chop the whites. Soften gela
tin in cold water and dissolve In
boiling water. Cool. When sirupy
In consistency, add salad dress
ing, onion, lemon juice and salt.
Pour about half of this mixture
over yolk and chill until firm. Add
chopped parsley and egg whites to
remaining gelatin mixture and pour
into mold. Chill until firm
Cream sauce, strips of ham
and hard-cooked eggs served in
toast cups make such a tasty
and delicious dish when served
In this nay, you’d never guess
leftovers were being used.
LYNN SAYS:
Pep Up Lunches
With Variety
Tuna fish salad for sandwiches
Is nothing new, but when you add
to it some broiled bacon, you give
It a welcome change of flavor.
Swiss cheese paired with thinly
sliced dried beef and sliced tomato
will travel well if made into a lunch
box sandwich.
If the sandwich filling is rather
dry, give it succulence by dipping
In an egg-milk mixture and fry
It for French Fried sandwiches.
m&mms
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Add other ingredients to both
ham and eggs to enhance their
flavor and extend these pro
tein foods when preparing them
into luncheon or sapper dishes.
LYNN CHAMBERS* MENU
Hot Tomato Juice
•Ham a la King in Toast Cups
Carrot Strips and Green Beans
Pear Salad Beverage
Chocolate Pudding
•Recipe Given
Eggs Stuffed with Crab Meat
(Makes 12 staffed eggs)
6 hard-cooked eggs
1 teaspoon dry mustard
34 teaspoon salt
1 cap flaked crab meat
1 cap chopped celery
2 tablespoons chopped green
pepper
34 enp mayonnaise
Paprika
Cut eggs into halves crosswise.
Remote yolks, mash and mix with
remaining ingredients. Fill whites,
sprinkle with paprika.
Baked Hawaiian Hash
^ (Serves 5)
3 tablespoons butter, melted ' '
3 cups diced leftover cooked
smoked ham
3 cups diced cooked sweet po
tatoes
34 cup finely chopped onion
34 teaspoon salt
34 teaspoon pepper
34 cap pineapple Juice
3 slices pineapple, eat in half
34
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ed butter, ham, potatoes, onion,
seasonings and
pineapple juice;
mix lightly. Bake
in greased eight-
inch square bak
ing dish in moder
ate oven (350°)
30 minutes. Re
move from oven; top with halved
pineapple slices; sprinkle with
brown sugar; dot with two table
spoons butter. Broil until pineapple
is lightly browned, about seven
minutes.
Baked Tomatoes and
Hard-Cooked Eggs
(Serves 6)
2 medium tomatoes, peeled
6 slices bread
6 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
2 cups Cheese Sauce
12 strips cooked bacon
Parsley «
Cut each tomato into three slices
crosswise. fToast bread lightly. Ar
range sliced egg
on each slice of
toast, cover with
a slice of tomato
and bake in mod
erate oven (350*)
15 minutes. Pour
hot cheese sauce
over tomato and
return to oven to
heat until sauce
begins to bubble. Remove from
oven, garnish each service with
bacon strips and add parsley.
• • •
Pineapple Nat Cake
(Serves 6—8)
34 cup butter
1 cap sugar
3 egg yolks
1 cup crushed, canned pine
apple
34 oup nutmeats, chopped
14 graham crackers, crumbled
- 34 cup pineapple juice
34 cup heavy cream, whipped
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add egg yolks and continue Cream
ing until well blended. Add pine
apple and nutmeats. Arrange al
ternate layers of crumbs and pine
apple mixture in loaf pan, leaving
crumbs as top and bottom layers.
Moisten with juice. Set in refrig
erator for 12 hours. Serve in slices
with whipped cream.
Chicken and ham are flavor
mates for sandwiches. Enhance the
flavor by spreading the bread with
a Thousand Island dressing.
For something distinctly differ
ent, try using a scrambled egg fill
ing in noontime sandwiches. Color
and flavor appeal are given the
sandwich by adding some chopped
green pepper or chopped onion to
the eggs.
Peanut butter is an old favorite,
but it takes on interest when mixed
with chopped crisp cucumber awl
a bit of pimiento for color.
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At Last!
The big business man
and gone to—well, not to l
Hardly had he settled ('
nice, long smoke whep a b
hand slapped him on die
Into his ear boomed the
persistent salesman
quently hounded him
"Well, Mr. Smith,”
salesman, "I’m
*fr ■ V/ i > VX,
time I entered your office on i
you told md you would
here.”
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