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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Dingy Drapes Look New With Inexpensive Trimmings By Ertta Haley Cleaning, painting and wallpaper .sprees at this time of the year some times yield only a small measure ■of satisfaction since they merely *erve to point up how dingy cur tains and drapes look. You’ve suddenly discovered this state of affairs and simply can’t afford new curtains or drapes. What’s to be done? New and inexpensive trimmings have saved many curtains and draperies from being a complete disgrace. A simple tinting or dye ing job done quickly in the wash ing machine is another answer to this rather perplexing problem. Neither of these involves much expense or time and both offer great satisfaction because they make old things look almost new. If you merely want a change, then •add a touch of inexpensive trimming Warm Weather Tonic ZJse washing machine for dyeing . . . temporarily which you’ll plan to remove when fall comes around. Effects rather than intricate stitches -are what we strive for in both cur tains and draperies, and this means little work for you. Look over problem window appar- «1 carefully and decide from these tips just what would be the best ablution. It may be that shrunken curtains or drapes may be more easily used with smaller windows in another room than trying to make them fit the original room. If ao, you may be able to afford new draperies for this particular room. On the other hand, some fringe or other trimming might be used for edging the drapes, thus giving them a whole new aspect, very pos sibly more effective than they were originally. If the color of curtains needs re freshing, plan to use the washing machine to do the work quickly and without streaking. An agitator will spread the color evenly. Use These Tricks To Lengthen Curtains Ruffled curtains which have be come rain-stained or worn out by the youngsters pulling at the lower comers are among the easiest of curtain problems to remedy. Simp ly remove the old ruffles and add two or three rows of ruffling straight across the bottom. If curtains have shrunk, ruffles all around the curtain answer the problem perfectly. Make the new ruffle wide enough so that the re sulting curtain will look truly lux urious. Ruffles and fringe, loops and such added to curtains do not have to be Red, white and blue are fea tured in this New York de signed dress of silk tafetta. Fashion-wise details include the new shorter length, a huge bow at the shoulder, the bared neck line and slit hipline pockets on a fuH skirt. of the same material as the original curtain. In fact, contrasting fabric, color or design might be even more effective. One point you should observe, however. If your curtains are very old and look obviously that way. and fringe for lengthening curtains. v do what you can to restore the original new look with proper laun dering, starching and ironing to add body. If you are adding very new and crisp material, it’s best to wash this a few times before using so the contrast between old and new is not too pronounced. What about marquisette curtains which have small tears and pulls in them? They should be completely discarded or is there any possible way of using them? Yes, and here’s what you can do: THE READER'S COURTROOM Tricks, No Treat for Murderer ‘By Will Bernard, LL.B. May the Police Use Trickery To Obtain a Confession? A wealthy recluse was found slain in tyy*. garage one night, and suspicion fell upon a woman who lived nearby. However, the police did not arrest her at once. Instead, • detective called at her house— pretending to be a cosmetics sales man. He managed to draw the woman into conversation, and she confided that she was “in hot water.” He Replied: “Tell me all JUDGE, I BBBti Kj HOODWINKED/ / • ••••• 1 about it. I’ve got a magic potion that Will keep you out of trouble!” Thereupon the woman confessed the murder—and, of course, was immediately arrested. At the trial, she protested that the confession had been obtained by trickery. However, the court said that didn’t matter and found the woman guilty. The judge pointed out that the trick was designed merely to bring out the truth. • • • An actor was divorced by his wife, on grounds of immoral con duct. At the trial, the main battle was for custody of the couple’s 12- year-old daughter. It seems that the mother had been rather careful and firm with the girl—while the father had pampered her and hum ored her in every possible way. As might be expected, she told the court that she chose to go with her father. But in spite of this preference, the judge granted cus tody of the child to the mother for Jttjqod of the girl herself. A man who lived in a small apart ment decided to move to larger quarters. Since his lease still had six months to run, he subleased the place to a woman—after get ting the consent of the landlord. A few weeks later, the woman skipped town. When the landlord demanded that the man keep up the rent payments, he flatly re fused—on the ground that the land lord had consented to the sublease. However, the court felt differently and held the man responsible for the woman’s act. Must a Will Be Written in Ink? While thumbing through a maga zine in a dentist’s waiting room, a man came upon a form for making out a will. On the spur of the mo ment he seized a pencil, filled out the form, and tucked it in his pocket. A few weeks later the man died. When his widow found out that all her husband’s property had been left to his brother, she went to court to contest the validity of the will. She argued that a document of such importance is no good unless made out in ink. However, the court disagreed and held the will valid. The judge said that, even though the man had been foolish to use a pencil, the will was just as ‘legal” as if wirtten in indelible ink if the curtains are white or ecru, select colored mending tape which goes well in the room in which cur tains are used. Cut flowers or leaves out of the mending tape and apply scatter fashion to the curtains simply by pressing with a hot iron. These give a novel decorative touch to the room as well as added life to the curtains. Faded Draperies Respond To Treatments like These Badly faded draperies often re sult after long time usage because they are exposed to sun as well as windows which leak. Don’t feel too low about this situation because it, too, can be helped. \ If the draperies are light and you want to cover all the waded spots completely, plan to use a fairly dark dye. If you don’t want too dark a color on the draperies, then remove the original color with remover. Check a sample of the material to see whether the drapes will take both color remover and dye since many of these require hot water. Interesting results are often achieved by dyeing printed drap eries because the print remains and background color is make dark er. You can outline the print with light colored yarns, thus giving in teresting texture and new co’or to the drapes. If the drapes have been lined, re move the lining and see what the reverse side looks like. Frequently this may have been saved from fading and often this has an inter esting texture of its own. In this case, simply reverse the drapes, lining the side that has already been used. If it’s necessary you can add some fringe. Deep “V” arrange ments of this can be very effective in living and dining rooms. When it’s essential to dye a drap ery a darker color that is less ef fective in the room, you might con sider adding a border that will light en them sufficiently to be attractive. Add Length, Width By These Methods There are several ways to remedy skimpy draperies whether they have shrunk through cleaning or laundering, or were just too small in the beginning. The easiest way is to add a clever border along the inside edges of the drapes, and pos sibly along the bottom, too. When drapes are plain, choose a geometric print in the necessary width, making certain the fabric and texture match or harmonize properly with the drapery fabric. Five or six inch inserts as borders can be extremely effective with plain drapery fabrie. They may be purchased frequently in this width; otherwise, you may buy them wider and cut to fit. If desired, another effective way to acquire a border is to buy ma terial which goes well with the drapes, then stamp and stitch it with yarn to carry out an effective idea for a border. KATHLEEN NORRIS At Times Advice Is Infuriating I N MY MAIL this week was a re sentful and angry letter from a woman named Kate Bush, who lives in Williamsville, New York. Kate differs with me very definitely, and wants me to know it. The article that enraged her was intended for those American women who are worried about money. These women, and there are mil lions of them, are managing in comes that range from $3,000 to $6,000 a year. With the rising de mands of their children, the drain of visible and hidden taxes, the in creased cost of living, they find themselves in a constant state of anxious discouragement. There simply is no way to make ends meet, to save the husband and f ather the responsibility that is kill ing him, to satisfy the demands of the children. Hundreds of letters come to me ev ery year, emphasizing this predica ment, and it was in answer to one of them that I quoted in my article the case of a Polish family that arrived in America only seven years ago, and that is now independent; the daughter prosperously married, the son in a contracting business with his father, the mother secure in the home she is so proud to keep comfortable and happy for them. Peace of Mind I said that in the beginning these exiles rented three rooms for $26 a month, “near the river” in an un fashionable neighborhood, and that both son and daughter worked in high school days, so that two- thirds of the combined earnings went into government bonds. Fresh " in a contracting business . . . from enslaved Poland, these people found our world a veritable para dise, and my point was that their road to security and success is open to all families, and that it is the only way to peace of mind, when domestic ways and means are the problem. More than that, to completely change one’s way of life is a most stimulating adventure. To stop wor rying about one’s social standing with utterly unimportant acquain tances, to stop all consideration of what is the right environment for the children, to make a game of getting way under the income in stead of eternally overspending it —this is really to live, and certain harassed anxious housewives never have known real living. Doesn't Need Counsel But this advice infuriated Kate Bush, and her letter told me why. Kate Bush doesn’t need such coun sel. She has solved her problem by moving to the country, which she truthfully asserts is a much “more wholesome place for children than a cheap city slum. Our youngsters go to a fine school,” her letter says, and to Sunday school, and to a show every two weeks. They have pets and amusements galore, chick ens, diffcks, rabbits, skates, skis, sleds, every kind of fun at home. They never tease for money because there is no place to spend it.” Of course, that is an ideal solu tion for all problems, mother’s, dad’s, the children’s, the budget. everything. But it was not for wom en like Kate Bush that I wrote. It was for the troubled ones, the be wildered ones, who feel that every thing in the home must be as com fortable and luxurious as things always were in Mama’s house, and who simply can’t manage it today* Get Out from Under To such I give the old advice, get out from under it all. Move to the unfashionable neighborhood — it needn’t be a slum. As a matter of fact, unfashionable neighborhoods near the river or the bay, or up on the hill, or out in the fields on the fringes of the city, will be the choicest locations of all in a few years. When I was married in 1908, large sunny flats on the river in New York’s upper east side, run ning from 40th to 90th Street, were rented for $20 and $25 monthly. That is New York’s most elegant Mayfair now. If—and the If Is underlined— you can move your family, as Kate Bush did, to country freedom, vege table garden, pets, skates, skis, sleds. But so ideal an arrangement is %iot within reach of many of the housewives, who find themselves caught in the confusions of a chang ing world, and have not the courage to realize that at such times each of us must make her own world, sweep away past sensitiveness and prejudice, and give her children an honest view of tomorrow. If you are living over your in come, then try living under it. It is much more restful. Most of the things you will have to sacrifice are valuable only in your imagina tion. Sunken City Lures Diver To Explore Port Royal, Old Pirate Stronghold SOUTH GATE, CALIF.—Some time this spring a lumbering tank like tractor vrill slowly edge down the streets of a private city sunk since 1692 under the waters of the Caribbean sea. At the controls of the tractor will be Lt. Harry E. Riesberg, a Cali fornia deep sea diver. In 1935 Riese- berg, hunting pirate treasure on sunken Spanish galleons off Kings ton, Jamaica, stumbled into Port Royal, a fabulous city destroyed by an earthquake and tidal wave in 1692. Now, with a costly expedition to back him up, Rieseberg is going back to Port Royal, the city under 30 fathoms of water. For 15 years he’s been dreaming and planning to revisit Port Royal. What he saw in 1935 is worth a second look. He stood on the ocean floor. All around him were crumbled relics of buildings, now encrusted with daz zling coral formations. Brilliant tropical fish swam in and out of 200 year old windows. All alone, he didn’t have the equipment to venture too far from his salvage ship. But he could see other streets, other buildings. Back on shore, Rieseberg learned that Port Royal was the lair of fab ulous pirates in the 17th century. It was known as the richest—and wickedest—city in the world. Cap tive girls, bedecked in plundered finery, presided over tables set with gold and silver. Then, in 1692, the whole city and 5,000 people were plunged under the sea. Rieseberg thought that some of the pirates’ treasure-’ might still be in the water covered buildings of Port RoyaL m ★ ★ iiii Big _ SCULPTURE: Micah, especially 4:1-5; 8:2-4; 7:18-20. ^ DEVOTIONAL. READING: Psalm 111 God Has a Plan Grandma’s Sayings Lesson for May 28, 1950 G OD HANDS DOWN no blue prints. He never yet has been willing to save any man the trouble of thinking. The Bible is God’s guidebook, and in it is revealed God’s will. But it is not a guide book of such a sort that you can take it from the shelf and look up in it the answer to every one of your problems in detail. Neverthe less the .Bible is a guide, “the infal lible rule of faith and practice” as soipe churches ex press it Dr. Foreman God’s will is shown there plainly enough so that we can know wheth er we are building on the right foundation or not. • • • Sins Into The Sea ■MTOW THE PLAN of God is st simple, that is, it can be so simply expressed, that one is al most tempted to say, “Oh, that!” as if it were something we knew already. Well, we do know it. But the thing is, we don’t do it. Part of God’s plan for mankind, a very important part, in fact in dispensable—something the Bible talks about from the beginning to end—is this: The forgiveness and the destruction of sins. (Micah 7: 18-20.) Now everybody can see others’ sins. The Romans used to say that every man carries others* sins tn a bag in front of him where he can see them very well, but his own sins he carries in a bag hanging down his back where he cannot see them. We are all in favor of other peo ple’s forsaking their sins. But how about you? The world does need to confess its sin; but you need to con fess your own. No sins walk by themselves; sins exist only in sin ners. Sin does not commit itself. Sin is something a sinner does. We shall never get rid of sins by exhorting other people. We get rid of them by repenting in the pres ence of God and receiving his for giveness. It is always so easy to think: If we only had' a good society we could have better people. That is backing into an idea the wrong way. The right idea is: If we have better people we shall be on the way to the good society. • • • If Not Peace, Then What? W E ALSO KNOW something about God’s plan for society at large. The Bible does not leave us in the dark. One thing that Micah brings out is the ideal of peace. (Micah 4:1-5.) .So long as we are making war, preparing for and k expecting war, doing or saying things that make war inevitable or even likely, we are out of line with the will of God. Conversely, whatever we do to foster peace is in line with the plan of God. War was bad enough in the days of Micah; it is incal culably worse today. War always was the effect and cause of hate, it always brought suffering and death, war seldom settled anything. But this is the htomic age. Dean Rusk of the U.S. state department has said that in all present - day discussions wq have to remember one solemn fact: The human race now has in its hands the means of its own total destruction. Any war nowadays is a war against the whole human race, for any large-scale war with atomic weapons may well make the entire globe uninhabitable by man. A voice for war is a voice for uni versal death. • • • Christ The King S INLESS MAN in a warless world: such is God’s plan. Is thia possible? Only on one condi tion; that Christ shall .be king. (Micah 5:2-4.) This has two mean ings, one far-off, and one near; one complete and one partial. The far-off, completed meaning (which may be nearer than we think) is that after the history of this planet is over and done with, in the “new heavens and the new earth” the final destiny of God’s people is to live under the Lord Christ as leader and king. The nearer, here - and - now meaning of Christ’s kingship is this: Wherever, in the plans of men, the spirit of Christ, his way and his ideal, are being trampled on or ignored, there God's plan is forgotten and there disaster is certain. But wherever the spirit of Chris is in control, there God’s plan U being carried out and there the Kingdom of God is coming nearer. (Copyright by the International council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) Use Dry Sugar Pack for Frozen Berries (See Recipes Below) . Stock Your Freezer S O MANY FOODS like peas, as paragus and strawberries which are coming to their peak of season now yield excellent results when frozen. If you have either home or commercial facilities for keeping them in this way, then it’s time to make your plans soon. Freezing foods is quick and easy. Results are excellent, and your table in mid- winter, showing off these delicacies, takes on the ef fect of a ban quet. The flavor and goodness of fresh foods is preserved dur ing the freezing process. However, it’s important to remember that foods come from the freezer |ust as good as when they are frozen, and no better. Speed is Essential Utmost speed should be used in getting fruits and vegetables into the freezer. The two hour rule which applies to canning should be used here, too. It’s easier to ob serve, however, because there’s no processing time to consider. If you have your own garden, pick vegetables and fruits early in the morning while the dew is still on them. If you have to arrange to buy them, try to observe the same rule. Fruits and vegetables which have stood around are not as tender as when first picked; neither do they have the food values as freshly picked produce. Have all equipment in readiness so that you can go ahead with full speed. Vegetables will have to be scalded, then dunked in ice water. Containers should be ready to fill and seal. # Plan to put foods in your own refrigerator promptly and plan to get them into your own or the commercial freezer as quickly as possible. • * • Freezing Raspberries, Strawberries Both raspberries and strawber ries give best results when they are frozen with sugar rather than with syrup since they will make their own juice in the carton. Choose varieties which have been successfully tested for freezing. In raspberries these are Cuthbert, Latham or Viking. A 24-quart crate or about 36 pounds of raspberries will yield 24-26 quart cartons, each quart serving 6 to 8 people. Marshall is the best common va riety to use for frozen strawberries, a 24-quart crate will yield about 30 quart cartons. Wash the berries in water which has been cooled with ice to 40°. Do not allow them to remain in the water for more than 30 seconds. A good way to do this is to place the berries in a colander, after sorting, and then place the colan der in water sufficient to cover. Shake gently, lift from water, drain and remove caps, using a sharp knife. Place the fruit on a tray which has been lined with several thick nesses of absorbent toweling agd pJace in refrigerator to drain and cool. Place drained and cooled berries In a bowl and sprinkle sugar over LYNN SAYS: Dress Up Ordinary Foods If You Serve them Often Are fruit salads an almost daily Item at your table? The family will appreciate new color and flavor in the dressing. Beat some currant jelly into sweet French dressing for that nice, extra change. If sandwiches are a stand-by on your luncheon menus, try this one for something different; use broiled bacon, lettuce and sliced tomato on buttered toast and serve with thin, hot American cheese sauce. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Minute Steaks Asparagus Salad; Vinegar Dressing Corn Pudding Bran Muffins Beverage Strawberries with Cream Cookies WORSTIN' takes up jest aa much time aa workin’, but wozkln’ pays off better- IS P«ld Mis. Edith a Fsck. Ossusrffls, Ft* «jqr I MAY BE a Grandma in yean, bat when it comes to cookin’ I’m up to the minute. That’s why I prefer ♦‘Table-Grade’’ Nu-Maid—the com pletely modem margarine. Yessir, Nu-Maid is modem in texture .. • spreads on smooth! It's modern in taste—full of sweet, chumed-fresh flavor! GUESS THERE AUNT no surer way to success in marriage than realizin' that it depends on both flndin’ the right person, and the right person. is paid Mrs. T. a Elder. NlsnUa. 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Freeze at once. Handle peaches gently and make certain all sugar is mixed with fruit before packaging. Allow 34-inch head space for fruits an vegetables packed in pint cartons. Allow about %-inch additional when using quart car tons. Frozen Peas Tender, not fully matured peas are best to use. Wash pods before shelling and dis card all small or wrinkled peas. If pods are full and difficult to shell, scald with boiling,water for one minute. Peas then, should be scalded, after shelling, also: by steam, three minutes; by boiling water, one min ute; or by pressure cooker for two minutes. Cool in ice water and drain on absorbent toweling. Seal at once and place in freezer or refrigerator immediately, not allowing more than one hour to elapse from the time they are packaged to the time freezing starts. The varieties giving best re- suits are Thos, Laxton and Al derman. One bushel yields 6-8 quart cartons. 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