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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C ✓ WOMAN'S WORLD Add Glamour to Wardrobe By Ertta Haley Whether you’re clothes budget conscious or simply want to put your own ingenuity to work, your vArdrobe can undoubtedly benefit by accessories of your own making. The woman who can afford only a few items basic to the wardrobe can expand it almost indefinitely by making attractive accessories for it On the other hand, even though they can afford to go out and buy gloves, purses, scarves and other such items, many women prefer to make their own because they feel they can get something original and different. You don’t have to be an expert on sewing to add these clever and at tractive touches to the wardrobe. Neither do you have to expend a lot / i i Pep your uerdrobe with a skirt . . . of time and energy making them. The rewards, however, are far greater than you would dream: the pleasures of creating, the inter esting effects for the wardrobe and your friends’ praise of your ingen uity. Take, for example, the case of the girl who could afford only an inexpensive sun dress. It fitted her nicely and looked attractive but since she had to wear it all season long, she took steps to get three different dresses out of it. Her first step was to make a cape jacket for it so the dress could be appropriately worn for going shop ping as well as calling instead of just a sports’ t9g. This took less than a yard of material in a contrasting color and about two hours to make. It gives her an “extra dress.” ■ Her next step consisted of buying still another piece of contrasting material. This was used for making a scallopped cuff which snapped around the top of the bodice. This gave her still another change for the original dress. ^ Make Old Hate " Do Extra Duty If you feel that summery hats are a poor investment, then you probably haven’t used them to their fullest wearability. Of course you can refresh veiling and change flowers or remove one or both, but even that doesn’t always give you enough wear to make them worth buying. Just in case you have one or two Circular Skirt Style Among the most popular of , current fashions is the full sweeping circular skirt shown here with an encircling mule train design Inspired by a Cali fornia fashion expert. With their flopping ears and flirtatious eyes, the mules are set against a stippled background. The sim ple puffed sleeved blouse Is of • solid colored cotton broad cloth. old sailor hats knocking about in the back of the closet, here are some good ideas for them. When you get through remodeling them, you won’t be able to recognize the old hats. Sailor hats, because of their reg ularity, are easy to cover with new material This might be some ma terial from a dress you’ve just made or a small piece of fabric picked up at the remnant counter or « renovated hat. which will give just the contrasting note you need with some summer clothes. Fabric, felt or straw may be cov ered in this way since you need only to cut the material to fit. It’s easy to tack on with small stitches. You might make a belt or purse cover with the same material if there’s enough left, and thus give yourself matched accessories. If the old sailor hat does not look as snappy as you would have it, THf READER'S COURTROOM Make Bridges Safe for Elephants By Will Bernard, LLB If an Elephant Falls Through a Bridge, Is the City Liable? Every spring a travelling circus stopped in a certain small town to put on its show. The day before the opening, the company would stage a parade—headed by a five-ton ele phant. The parade route, which was approved by city officials, led over an old wooden bridge. One spring day, during the parade, everything went along fine until the animals came to the bridge. The elephant took a few steps into the structure, when all of a sudden it cracked beneath his weight. The huge beast dropped through the hole to a road below, and rolled ever—dead. The owner of the cir cus later sued the town for the val ue of the elephant The local offi cials insisted that anybody who puts an elephant on a bridge does so at his own risk, but the, court disagreed. Holding the town liable, the judge said that a public bridge should be kept safe for any proper and lawful use thereot • • * A Wealthy manufacturer gave his churth a gift—a huge iron bell. Grateful church officials began us ing the bell not only for services bu» tlso to toll the hours. 1 From eariy\moming to late at night, the mighty chimes rolled out over the neighborhood. Some of the neigh bors f+und this very annoying, and finally\one home owner took the matter^ to court. He complained that thk chimes woke his children, drownef out conversation, and even snook his house. The court orderedlits clamor stilled. Are the Parents to Blame If a Child Runs into the Street? * A mother told her five-year-old son to play in his room until she finished cooking dinner. After a few minutes, the boy became bored. He slipped out of the house and ran into the street—right in front of a speeding car. The young ster was killed, and his parents later sued the driver for reckless ness. The man tried to shift the blame onto the boy’s mother, say ing it was her own fault for letting the child run into the street. How ever, the court felt otherwise and held the motorist liable. The judge said that parents can’t be expected to keep their children under lock and key—or watch them every single instant His Honor comment ed: “Parents are not required to do the impossible!’’ • • • • Should a Policeman Ride On Your Running Board To Guide You to the Hospital? A woman stopped her sedan alongside a traffic officer and said: “I’m taking my aunt to the hospital. ^ Could you tell me how to get there?” The policeman jumped onto the running board and cried: “Straight ahead!” After driving a STRAIGHT AHEAP/ few blocks, the woman made a sharp stop at a comer and the po liceman tumbled off—breaking his leg. Later he sued the woman for damages, but the court turned down his claim. Hie judge said that even a policeman shouldn’t risk riding on the running board, when it would be just as easy for him to get inside! by Sewing Own Accessories you might try trimming off some of the brim since most of the new hats in this style have rather narrow brims. Change the angle at which you’ve been wearing it, too, if that’s a help. Picture brimmed hats need not be new. Cleaned and refreshed, they, too, can take on a new look. One of the easiest ways to bring them back into circulation is to cut off some brim and to sew some stiff veiling or ribbon around the outer most edge. Add a hat band to match or contrast your dress, and possibly a bow, and see what these will do. Remodeling Helps Stretch Slender Wardrobes Easily It’s a truth of long standing that your wardrobe is what you make it, rather than what your present bud get happens to offer. If, in previous seasons you purchased wisely, you’ll bless those days now for many of these clothes can be used. Even though clothes are worn thin in spots, a feta remodeling tricks can give them the magic that yields another season or two of satisfac tory wear. Long, full sleeves on blouses which have worn out at the arm holes, for instance, can be cut off entirely to give you a sleeveless blouse which is so popular right now. If you don’t have a skirt, get right into fashion by making a brightly printed, circular type. There you have a costume that is strictly fashion-right. Tailored blouses particularly yiqld themselves to 'having their sleeves cut off entirely. Simply bind the sleeve edge, and you may wear the blouse with not only the skirt just mentioned, but also with suits which always can use an extra blouse. Collar and cuff fashions lend themselves to many provocative changes on clothing. One of the newest is the stand-up collar that can be made for any good basic dress. If you like, add some inter esting large cuffs to a short or long sleeved dress "or blouse. Use some of the new fabrics with inter esting textures to give the dress the desired lift. Old boleros take on a great deal of interest if they’re lined with a bright new print. Add a bow of this same print to your hat, and you have a brand new outfit. Long rows of buttons ‘may be added to bodices or slender skirts for a decorative touch that is both nfcw and noveL , . Purses and Gloves Yield Themselves to Treatment Unless gloves are so worn as to be cast out, then take them aside for renovating. The efforts to give them a lift are so little yet so re warding in results. With the interest in decorative cuffs on gloves you can see what an easy matter it is to change an old pair into something that looks like it came out of a fashion window. Ruffles of nylon, gathers of fine lace or embroidery work are all good techniques to apply to old gloved. KATHLEEN NORRIS Don't Look for the Dull Facet ojSN’T THERE any guidebook * for wives, isn’t there any school course that they ought to take?” demands a husband from Trenton, N. J. “I’ve got the damdest sweet wife any man ever had,” his letter goes on, “and I love her. But Rhddy has about as much idea of system, order, management, budgeting, as a white bunny, and if I talk about such things her eyes go vague, and she looks rather distressed, and in five minutes she’s forgotten all about it. “We have six children, two girls who are mine by my first wife, who died when they were mere babies; four boys, now 8, 8, 3 and one year old, born to Rhoda and me. When we were first married, 10 years ago, my mother lived with us, and managed everything, as Rhody was still teaching. After this. Mother was invalided for two years by a stroke, and the babies began to arrive and Rhody stayed home. “I know that though she was de voted to Rhoda, Mother must have suffered through the disorder and the slipshod ways of our house hold, baby garments everywhere, no regular hours for naps or meals, and Rhoda as apt to give us a bread pudding for breakfast and oatmeal and bacon for dinner if the fancy struck heY, or pick up the children and telephone me to meet them on some distant beach or mountain road for a picnic supper. Feels Disloyal “Writing this much,” the hus band continues, “I feel disloyal for as I began by saying, I have a darned sweet wife, and Rhody is a fine cook as well. She never wastes anything and she can make a good meal out of an ice box full of scraps that look like nothing plus, to me. My little girls have never had to realize their own mother’s loss, for Rhoda was their kinder- ". . . fine cook as well . . " garten teacher when my first wife died, and they adored her then and they do now. “I honestly have nothing to com plain of, but although I hear other fellows at the office talking of in surance and buying bonds, and see other women’s houses neat and well-organized, I come home to racket and confusion, find Rhody and the children digging vegetable gardens at six in the evening, and the baby with them in his disrepu table basket. And sometimes I won der if there mightn’t be a school, or a course in girls’ schools, that would teach them something about just the simplest sort of housekeep ing. It must be simple, because so many women do keep reasonably orderly homes. “Now don’t rip into me,” Chester Heyman disarmingly concludes his letter, “for I feel like a prude and a sissy, when I heckle my good wife about children’s dirty hands at meals and comment on the state of the window curtains. Having so much, perhaps I’m exacting to want more, but is it so bard for a woman to observe just the ordinary routine, of housekeeping? Tell me if I'm wrong. Rhody reads every word you write, and if you could jack hex 1 up a little on these things, it would make my life a little simpler.” Priceless Diamond Chester, my dear, you are not wrong; there is no question of right or wrong here. But you are a man who holds a priceless diamond in his hand and turns and twists it to see if one of the facets is not a lit tle out of line. The brilliance of your diamond ought to blind yoii, to any such defect, and I believe that if you could truly appreicate the woman you hav% in Rhody, it would. Here is a girl who makes babies love her in school, and when their mother died, carried that love right into their lives as a new mother. She gallantly went on teaching, for awhile, presumably to help’you out financially, and stopped when the care of the elderly invalid, a home, a man, and an increasing number of babies interrupted her own ca reer, or rather, replaced it with a higher career. She has given you four sons; she nursed your mother in the last hard months of an illness. She handles a job that would put some women into a psychopathic ward, and evidently she enjoys every moment of it. Six small chil dren, and your Rhoda has spirit enough to get up picnics, to plant vegetables, to drag even the baby off to distant lovely places to en joy an outdoor meal! As for the bread pudding for breakfast, has it ever occurred to you that when you dat two pieces of raisin-bread toast, coffee with cream, two boiled eggs, butter and sugar for your breakfast, you’ve eaten a bread pudding? Beat Fatigue With Oxygen Few Whiffs of Ozone Perk Up Mind, Body PITTSBURGH, PA.—Tired house wives, fainting women and over worked businessmen have been of fered new hope through experi ments conducted by two local bas ketball teams. The experiments seemed to indi cate that a few whiffs of pure oxy gen from a portable container will stop that breathless feeling and perk up both mind and muscle. The basketball teams, threatened with “slumps” from overwork, bought oxygen dispensers, used them during games and walked off with just about all the honors in western Pennsylvania. Homestead high, trailing the Al toona (Pa.) team IS to 8 in the first quarter, hauled its first stringers out of the game and made them take a few pulls at the machine. At the half, ^Homestead led, 27 to 19, and the “oxygen eat ers” won the game going away, 60 to 44. s In another case a whman slipped on a freshly waxed floor and cracked her head against a wall. A few whiffs of oxygen revived her faster than smelling salts could have and she felt no headache from the concussion—only a sore spot on her scalp where her head hit the wall. During the war the air force dis covered that oxygen had almost magical powers. Although the prac tice wasn’t authorized by higher- ups, fliers inhaled pure oxygen to cure “hangovers.” I %. I 4 WMWgm ' ... • “VV.: : ^ SCRIPTURE: Habakkuk. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 67: 1-7. Questioning God Lesson for Jane 4, 1950 H ABAKKUK has been called the prophet who dared to ask God questions. If he had not asked these questions he would not have had his answers, so we ought to be thank ful for him. If he had meekly “tak en it” without (so to speak) talking back to God, he himself might never have be came a prophet and we might have missed the truth which he was en abled to see. If there had been morning papers in those days, Habak kuk would seldom have read any- ^ „ thing good in them. Dr - rorem * n As for local news, it was all scan- daL Murders, judges dispensing injustice in the courts, good people having a very hard time of it . . . Abroad, things looked dark. The giant nation of Babylonia was on the march westward, and it did not look as if the nation of Judah had what it would take to stop an in vasion. Habakkuk, a deeply sensi tive man, could not brush it all off. He could not say, “Oh well, what can you expect?” or “I see the boys are at it again.” He could not think of what was going on around him as if it were all a story, a murder- mystery to be enjoyed in an easy chair. He could not say “It is fate” and let it go at that. He was desperate in his mind about it all. “Under mine eyes oi$- rage and injury go on,” he said (1:3, Moffatt’s translation). He dared to ask the question. Why? Why does God permit such things? • a • God’s Terrible Answer G OD HAD AN ANSWER for Hab akkuk, but it did not satisfy him at first; indeed it disturbed him deeply, for the answer looked worse than the original problem. The essence of it was this (Hab. 2:5-11): God had indeed seen the wicked ways of the nation of Judah, and was going to punish the whole country by defeat in war. He was bringing up against them the Babylonians (Chaldeans), an ag gressive, fighting, ruthless nation. Sooner or later Babylon and Judah would clash, and then—Smash! • • • The Prophet Still Asks Questions H ABAKKUK KNEW very well what the Babylonian armies were like and what they had been doing. But could it be true that God would actually make use of a wicked natioh like Babylonia? God was “of purer eyes than to behold evil;” how then could a good God use the cruel violencb of godless armies, even for a righteous pur* pose? The Babylonians were not God’s people—they did not worship him or know him. How conld God use his enemies tq punish his own people? Does God justify the means by the end? Does God do evil that good may come? Habakkuk, in short, was troubled by exactly the same kind of ques tions that have always arisen when men who believe in a righteous God ponder the iheaning of the power of evil. « • * • Fa\th Comes Through H ABAKKUK never did get a complete, logical answer to his doubts. What he did get was something more valuable. It was a two-fold answer. First, WAIT AND SEE. (2:1-3.) The crushing of Judah by Babylon would not be the last chapter of history. God has yet to settle his account with Babylon, and “God does settle all his accounts in October.” The other part of the answer is: THE JUST 4 SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. The meaning here (2:4) is that there are two kinds of life, two types of character, two sorts of men. One is the man of pride and unfaith, the other is the man of faith. Unfaith kills, faith makes alive. Unfaith trembles and falls, faith endures. So it is with men and na tions. At that time you might have thought, Babylon will sur vive, Judah has no chance. But in the light of history, we know it was Babylon that perished, Judah that endured. Godless ness may have terrible power, but since it is godlessness. It has no finq^ power against the real God. So Habakkuk who began by ask- 'ing questions, came out into glor ious faith. The great poem with which his book closes is a bold confession of faith. No longer com plaining, he cries out, “The Lord God is my strength!” (Copyright by the International council of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released hr WNU Features.) Serye Dainty Foods When Entertaining Prospective Brides IT WON’T BE long now until you’re in the midst of entertaining all the girls who will be married in the romantic month of June. If several of your friends are to be enter- ■. tained, be ready with fresh and tempting ideas for food. Keep foods dainty and serve them attractively on your prettiest qhina and tableware. For a luncheon, serve a main dish salad or a lovely casserole. Add to this tiny rolls or muffins, and a seasonal dessert Showers may be in the form of luncheons or evening or garden parties. If the latter two, then you’ll need only a glamorous des sert and beverage. You may also pass a cool beverage, mints and nuts while 1$ie girl opens her pres ents. • STRAWBERRIES MAKE beauti ful desserts for occasions of this type, especially if they’re chosen from these: •Strawberry Angel Pie (Serves 3-10) 4 egg whites % teaspoon cream of tartar 1/16 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar ' 4 egg yolks 1 package sliced or, whole fresh frozen strawberries Hi cup sugar 2 tablespoons lemon Juice 1 cup whipping cream Beat egg whites until fluffy, add cream of tartar and salt and beat slightly. Slowly add sugar, a few tablespoons at a time, and continue to beat. Spread mixture into lightly greased or oiled *cake or pie pan. Bake in a slow oven, 300*.for one to \Va hours or until meringue is well dried out. Place on cake rack to cool. When almost at room tem perature, loosen from sides and bot tom of pan and place on serving plate. The top and center of the “pie shell” will crush in to receive the filling. When at room tempera ture, set aside to chill. While crust is baking, mix egg yolks with juice drained from strawberries thit have been put into colander or sieve to thaw and drain. Add sugar and cook in top of double boiler until thick. Stir often while cooking. Beating slightly while cooking will give a fluffy texture. Add lemon juice and chill both the strawberry mixture and the drained strawber ries. Assemble pie by spreading shell with a hit of cream* that has been whipped. Spread in strawberry filling. Strawberry Velvet Pie (Makes 1 9-inch pie) Pastry 1 cup sifted enriched flour H teaspoon salt H cup shortening 1H to 2H tablespoons cold water Sift together flour and salt. Cut or rub in shortening. Add water. Mix to dry, crumbly dough. Turn out on light ly floured pastry cloth. Press dough together. Roll out % inch thick. Line nine- inch pie pan with pastry. Bake in hot oven (450°) eight to twelve minutes. Strawberry Velvet Filling 1 tablespoon gelatin *4 cup cold water 1 cup milk 2 eggs, separated % cup sugar A crust of light, chewy mer ingue encloses a creamy velvet- texture filling of strawberries in this Strawberry Angel Pie. It’s a perfect dessert for enter taining the bride-to-be. LYNN SAYS: , Avoid Kitchen Slavery By Smart Planning •Have only one dish at a meal which requires more than ordinary preparation. If it’s to be a fancy dessert, # have a simple main course that can be cooked altogether, pref erably in the oven. When you plan a casserole which requires several ingredients and sauce, have a simple dessert such as fresh or canned fruit with cook ies that have been baked in ad vance. Dainty chicken and noodle casseroles offer a delightful main dish for luncheon or light sapper when yea want to enter tain a crowd. A salad accom paniment and light dessert are all yon really need to complete the menu. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU •Chicken and Noodles in Casserole Asparagus Tip Salad Finger Rolls •Strawberry Angel Pie Beverage •Recipe Given H teaspoon salt 2 cups Sliced strawberries 1 teaspoon vanilla extrapt 94 cup whipping cream I tablespoon sugar Soften gelatin in cold water 10 minutes. Scald milk in top of double boiler. Beat egg yolks.- Add sugar and salt. Pour scalded milk over egg yolk mixture, stirring constant ly. Return to double boiler and cook until custard coats the spoon, stir ring constantly^ Remove from hot water. Add soft ened gelatin. Stir until gelatin is dissolved. CooL -Fold in 1% cups strawberries and vanilla extract. Beat egg whitdfl stiff. Fold in. Pour into baked nine-inch pastry shell. Set in refrig erator to chill about 1 hour. Just before serving, whip cream. Fold in sugar. Arrange whipped cream in 6 individual “nests” and fill each with remaining % cup berries. 4 egg yolks 94 onp sugar H teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites 94 cup cake floor 94 teaspoon salt 1 1 teaspoon baking powder Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Gradually add % cup of the sugar and vanilla. Beat egg whites until almost stiff; grad ually add remaining sugar; beat very stiff. Fold in egg-yolk mixture, then sifted dry ingredients. Bake in waxed-paper-lined, 10%-by Id- inch pan, in moderate oven (375*) 12 minutes. Turn onto cloth dusted with confectioners’ sugar. Remove paper; trim cake edges. Top Onth waxed paper. Roll quickly, paper inside. Wrap in sugared cloth; cool on cake rack. UnroU. Remove pa per; spread with Strawberry Fill ing: Whip 94 cup heavy cream; fold in two tablespoons sugar and one ..cup sliced strawberries. Roll up. ChilL Frost with Strawberry Meringue: Combine 94 cup sliced strawberries, 94 cup sugar, one egg white, and 94 teaspoon salt. Beat with rotary or electric beater until mixture is very stiff, 7 to 10 min utes. •Chicken and Needles in Casserole (Serves 5) 1 tablespoon salt 3 quarts boiling water 4 ounces medium noodles 3 tablespoons batter 3 tablespoons floor H teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon paprika 1 cup chicken stock 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon lemon juice 94 cup olives, chopped 2 cups cubed cooked chicken Add one tablespoon salt to active ly boiling water. Gradually add noodles and boil until tender (about six minutes). Drain and rinse. While noodles are cooking, mbit butter in top of double boiler. Add flour, salt and paprika. Mix to a smooth paste. Gradually add chick en stock and milk, stirring constant ly. Cook until slightly thick. Add lemon juice and olives. Combine noodles and chicken in 194 quart casserole. Pour sauce over. Cover and bake in moderate oven (350°) 45 minutes. Serve hot. Prepare foods ahead of time whenever possible so that you can feel fresh and rested for meal time. Tomorrow’s dessert may be baked with this evening’s dinner, for ex ample. Have a roast at least once a week to save meal preparation. Already cooked meat can be used sliced, heated with gravy, as meat pie and hash. Arrange equipment for conven ient reaching, and learn how to sit while you work so that you CM save energy. « Sugar to Flowers Let your sugar bowl serve as a cigaret container on some occa sions. Or fill it with flowers at other timqs. Rip Finger Seam It isn’t necessary to cut off the ‘ring finger of the glove in order to place the ring on the finger. Sim ply rip the seam on one side of that finger. 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