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THE NEWBKBHY SUN, NEWBggRY. S. C. WOMAN'S WORLD Lavish, Opulent Fabrics Are Making Fashion News By Ertta Haley R ICH LOOKING clothes made of lavish and opulent fabrics are the most important fashion news of the moment. There are no radical changes in silhouette, except for the fact lhat the tubular type which can be worn as easily by the large woman as the woman with reed slim lines, will be most popular. The new fabrics which will play such an important part in the fash ion scene will have touch appeal as well as eye appeal. There will be woolens so thick and luxurious, they’ll need no lining. There will be silks and velvets, too, as well as other luxury fabrics such as the taffetas, both plain and metallic, slipper satin, ribbed satin, ham mered satin, pure silk and flat and canton silk. Subtle dressed-up touches will ap pear even on the daytime and sports clothes, while fabulous jewel em broideries will blaze on evening coats and dresses. Jet, that popular trimming of some time ago, which has been making a comeback, will y Satin Ensemble fashions promote sheath silhouettes . . really have arrived in full glory with the new fashions, especially on afternoon clothes. Color is the prime inspiration of the top designers. Though black, brown, gray, winter navy and the basic red introduced last year are to be seen frequently, you’ll be noticing unusual colors and inven tive color-blending. There will be blues in at leq$t a dozen shades ranging from the pale steel blue to the soft wedgewood blue. Orange shades are destined to be popular as well as green. Bright, flaming reds are on the scene, and so are pinks from flesh to intense hues. Women Will Appreciate Silhouette, Neckline Interest The tubular lines of the sheath silhouette are an important part of the current fashion picture. This will come as good news for women of all sizes, but especially so for those who wear larger sizes, as it’s an easy and flattering line to wear. Many skills are included in the new silhouette as the working and wrapping of the fabric cross-grained seems to give a dress “muscle” that will follow those of the individual. | Strategic use of curved lines at neck and hip act as a balance to the vertical body lines. One of the most important fea tures of the new silhouette contin ues to be width at the neck or at the top. Wide necklines, wide col lars in many fascinating shapes, deep armholes and dolman sleeves are featured in dresses, suits and coats. Collars with fur bandings or up standing cuffs are fashion high lights. For the plunging or daring decolletage, there are “fill - ins” which include dickeys, lace or Claret red satin is used in this dinner ensemble to add a lux urious note to the fashion scene. The dress is squared across the bodice and has wide shoulder straps. Tabs on the hips look like pockets, and are centered with rhinestone buttons. massed flowers, all lending their particular effects for the lavish ef fects so important now. The squared shoulder and set-in sleeve is also in for a return visit. There will also be sleeves utterly absent as seen so extensively in warm weather fashions and the long, tight, dramatically cuffed sleeves. Hemlines, Waistlines Remain Unaltered You don’t have to get used to a lower waistline, yet, although there are signs that the eyes are being trained for it. It happens in subtle and tvide, dramatic collars. ways, though, by the use of low placed tabs om narrow box coats and the cascade panels that shoot out from the long molded torso line of evening dresses. Hemlines for the current crop of clothes remain at midcalf, which is about 14 inches from the floor, on both daytime and evening dresses. The newest evening hemline is street length at the front though it swoops down at the back, and gives rise to what is called the peacock line. .THE READER'S COURTROOM He Gave This Girl a Bad Time -By Will Bernard, LLB Is a Passenger to Blame For Taking the Driver's Mind Off His Driving? A salesman took a coed for a ride one evening. As the hour grew late, the girl asked what time it was. The man put his wrist under the dim dashboard light, and peered down at his watch. Mean while, the car kept on going—until It crashed into a fire hydrant! The £irl was injured, and sued the salesman for damages. At the trial, he argued that the accident “never would have happened if she hadn’t ‘asked me for the time." But the court found nothing wrong in the girl’s question, and granted her claim. The judge said that, when a driver is asked what time it is, he Shouldn’t forget that he is still at the wheel! • • • Must a Woman Welcome Her Daughter-in-Law Into The Family Home? Evicted from their apartment, a young couple decided to move in with the husband’s parents. When they got there, his mother met sternly at the door. “You are welcome,” she said to her son, “but you”—to the daughter-in-law .“can go somewhere else/' The youth stayed; his wife left . . and that was the beginning of the end of their marriage. Later the girl sued the mother-in-law for break ing up the marriage, but the court rejected her claim. The judge said there is no law requiring parents to treat their daughter-in-law as waH as they treat their own son. Does a Fisherman Have Any Claim to 'The One that Got Away?" A fisherman captured a sea lion, and decided to sell it for exhibition purposes. But one morning the sea lion slipped out of captivity and vanished into the ocean. A year later, the fisherman was amazed to see the same creature on exhibition in a nearby circus! He promptly sued the circus to get the sea lion back, insisting it still belonged to him. At the trial, it was brought out that the creature had been caught two weeks after its escape —and 70 miles away. The court thereupon turned down the fisher man’s claim, saying that his cap- tor obviously had left him for good! • • • If You Get a Shock From an X-Ray Machine, May You Collect Damages? A man went to a laboratory to have his teeth X-rayed. While the machine was turned on, an elec tric shock suddenly hit the man’s knee and went down to his foot. Injured by the current, be filed a damage suit against the doctor who had made the X-rays. At the trial, it appeared that no one could fig ure out the cause of the mishap. The machine was in good order— and the doctor had operated it in the proper manner. The court there fore denied the man’s claim. The judge said that, in a profession which uses such dangerous things as electricity, radium, scalpels, and poisons, accidents will happen! Skirts are still slim as they’ve been, but are more supple because of intricate skill used in wrapping, low placed flounces, tiers and back flares. Skirts for the evening open flower-like above the knee or are like huge petals, narrow as a daisy or wide as a rose. Overskirts are growing in importance, and borders of fur, embroidery or pleats are featured everywhere. Suitt. Overshadowed By Dress Combinations Suits which frequently make news in the fashion picture are by passed this season in favor of the dress with a coat or the dress with a jacket which many women will appreciate. This is, of course, in line with the dressed-up look. Designers have concentrated on coats with exciting outlines, rich detail and silken linings. They have both originality and distinction, and, when chosen carefully, they will do a great deal for both face and fig ure. . The dresses underneath the coats and jackets are slim and elegant. When worn with their respective coats, the dress material is in ex treme contrast. Fabric weight determines the de sign and function of the costume. Wafer plaids, sheer wool crepes and chiffon jerseys are balanced by the other extreme. You’ll be seeing velvet accents on many of the daytime dress and jacket combination. With a dre and jacket combination, for in stance, you may find that the dress has a velvet collar and belt to match the cuff, collar and revers of the jacket. Capes are also being used in place of coats and jackets on some of the dresses, and these, too, have their velvet accents. Some of the capes are reversible, and it’s not at all unusual to find wool fleece cape made with velvet on the reverse side. Coats Add Lavish Note To Fashion Scene Thick but very soft coats will be popular this fall and winter in the fashion picture, according to de signers’ forecasts. No woman need feel chill breezes, either, for they'll be warm, and lavishly so. Loop weave chinchilla cloth is being used for both long and short coats. Reversible two-tone and plain and plaid coatings appear destined for popularity. Cashmere and cam el’s hair coats are a real surprise with their linings of white satin. Some of the newest coats are made in a Spanish cloak style, with buttons and banding in black silk braid. Drop shoulders are featured on many of the coats with stitching defining the deep underarm sleeve treatment. Trick sleeve* are another feature seen on many coats, this taking the form of a contrasting cuff, made wide and dramatic, at about the elbow. KATHLEEN NORRIS Makers of Wills Often Duped "1UJY HUSBAND’S MOTHER, and her income of some $4,000 a year, are my problem,” writes Margarita Blake, from the Colorado ranch country. “We all live together, my husband, Ted, his two small sons from his first mar riage, our two baby girls, and his mother, whom we call Aunt Sis. Ted’s first wife was my loved sis ter, so you can understand that is a very harmonious arrangement, and we always felt Aunt Sis a part of it until two years ago. “Our ranch was once a sanitar ium, but the main building burned down, and we bought it for a small dairy, which is successful. Ted and the girls and I occupy one small cot tage, our boys another, and my mother-in-law and her companion- nurse a third. “This companion, call her Edna, seemed ideally efficient and nice for awhile. Then she began to get an influence over my mother-in-law that has culminated in their living almost completely apart from the jest of us. Until recently they came over for meals, and I went over two or three times a day to their cottage. Lately they had a television set put in; they have radio, records, all Aunt Sis’s books, and often they come out into the garden, Aunt Sis in her wheelchair, Edna working among the flowers or playing with the dog. “But* they don’t want the little boys ever to see the television, and as they have a small blue-flame stove and a little kitchen in the cot tage, which is some 300 yards from ours, they are beginning to cook all their meals there. Ted takes their order to the village store twice a week, but if I go over with ginger bread or cold chicken they politely decline it, and I bring it back. Virtually Disinherited “Last week an old friend who is our lawyer told Ted that his moth er had left everything of which ". . . Aunt Sis in her wheelchair . . " she is possessed to Edna except for small cash bequests to each of us, even the babies. This includes fins old furniture and linen, silverware and books, and china that came from Holland 100 years ago, and the jewelry that was Ted’s grand mother’s. We barely make a liv ing here, for feed is high, the mar ket uncertain, and any seasonal accident of the weather can undo months of patient work. Last year a barn roof collapsed under snow, and our prize bull and three fine cows were destroyed. This isn’t poor talk, it is merely to make you realize that whatever money Aunt Sis has would be mighty welcome. But we learn now that except for a few hundreds we will not get any of it. “Why should any woman pass over a good son, whose handling of her estate really accounts for this fine income, and leave everything to a complete stranger? We both hate ourselves, Ted and I, for en tering on such considerations now, while she is still alive, but she has had three strokes, and another might well be the last, and we find ourselves worrying deeply about it” Hard to Take “We don’t want to worry, we want to feel that whatever comes we can take care of our boys and girls, but the knowledge that the thing is going on with no protest, and that Edna will be a rich wom an, and Ted still a poor man, is hard to take. Our lawyer tells us that since we are mentioned in the will, it would be hard to break. As for trying to prove incapacity on the part of Aunt Sis, she is one of the clearest-headed of women, at 76, and would see through that in a flash. Is there anything you can suggest, any similar case of which you know,” this letter ends, “in which anything helped?” Nothing except cold philosophy, and that is hard to take too, Mar garita. You and Ted can only hope for a change, and since the end is near, it may not come. Since friendliness on your part is re pelled, and his mother apparently completely won over to this schem ing woman, it is that same mother’s weakness that is to blame, and she is too old to recognize her vanity. The material help would, of course, be of great value to you, but an even greater loss it seems to me, is the loss of the affection and loyal ty with which Ted would regard his mother, and which how her memory will forever lose. The makers of wills often sacri fice the respect and gratitude of survivors, through stupidity or carelessness or surrender, as in this case, to the infantile beed of old age for petting and spoiling and flattery. This describes the grandmother’s action. Army to Get Combat Bread Honest Loaf Better Than Usual Biscuit CHICAGO, I1L*—They’ve sounded taps for the traditional army bis cuit-rest its hard soul!—and tak en the wraps off a brand new, hon est to gosh combat loaf of bread. This is but one of the culinary triumphs of a central quartermas ter depot here which is taking all the guesswork out of armed forces rations. Laboratory technicians, although they don’t pretend they can duplicate GI Joe’s home table, already have carried the art of prepared rations many strides since the end of World War II. With war clouds hanging Mice more over the Pacific, the so-called Associates Food A Container In stitute. Inc. (bringing together army and private industry), is ac celerating its research program to keep at least the stomachs of our soldiers contented. By the end of the last war, the army was turning out some 40 mil lion rations a month. And yet a central laboratory, such as they have now, was some two years in the process of being formed. As a result, millions of dollars were wasted on such nontested foods as the “axle grease” butter, which sent soldiers choking and cussing from Guam to Great Britain. Now. thanks to this institute, ra tions could start rolling off pro duction lines throughout the coun try virtually overnight. You wonder about the canned loaf of bread?.. This is something which defied the bakers of two world wars. Well, they not only have a 829 calory day’s supply of bread in one little can now. but five neat little table rolls in another. SCRIPTURE:: Matthew 16:13-1?; Luke 22:54-62; John 21:13-17: Acts 2-5. DEVOTIONAL READING: Acts 1:S- 14. Man of Power MIRROR Can Sisters Be Of Your Mutual Friends? MIND By Lawrence Gould Lesson for September S, 1950 #rr KNEW him when—” can be a A deadly weapon. It has knocked down many a good man. Some one is being considered for a job, and he is just about to be accepted, when somebody sounds off with “I knew him when—.” “I knew h j m when he was a boy and he was a neigh borhood nuisance. I knew him when he used to live here. Dr. Foreman and his family were no-account. I knew him when he was in school and he never had high grades. I knew him before he amounted to anything, so he can’t amount to anything now. • • • A Case Against Peter I T IS A GOOD thing the Christian church never took that attitude about the Apostles, and a very good thing they didn’t take that line with Peter. It is true that he did not come out of the top drawer. It is quite true that when he was young he was no prize specimen. In fact, it would not be hard to make almost as strong a case against him as against Judas, if you take Simon Peter at his. low point. “Shall we keep Peter on our list?” Suppose you had been one of the other apostles and had been asked that question the night after the crucifixion. If you had not had a rather generous heart, you could easily have turned in an unfavor able report. “Well,” yon might have said, 4< he has some good points. He is sometimes on the alert, nev- # er fails for something to say. But he doesn’t always come through in a pinch. I understand the Lord took him up to the top of the mountain when he was trans figured, and what did that man do but go to sleep? Any of us would have given our right eye to have been there. But we never did get much of a story . out of poor old Simon Peter. He was asleep most of the time. “And do you remember that din-' ner when Mary poured all that ointment over Jesus’ head? It was a beautiful thing for her to do, I mean her motive was beautiful. But Peter complained about it. “Then there was the night—only last night but it seems a year away —when Jesus took Simon Peter and those two others into the garden with him. All the Master wanted was company. But old Peter was asleep again in no time. “But that’s not the worst. Last night at the supper table Peter bragged about how brave he was— got out a couple of swords in fact —and he swore that even if every one else denied the Master, he wouldn’t. But just before cock-crow he showed himself up for a liar and a coward. Some girl, just a girl, mind you, somebody out of the kitchen, said she knew he was a friend of Jesus. And this Peter starts swearing in the ugliest kind of language that he never knew Jesus, his very best friend. “Well, Jndas hanged himself, and Peter might as well .... I don’t see how he can possibly hold his head up again after last night.” 6 • • Man of Power N evertheless, Peter became a hero, a man of power. Look at his story in Acts 2-5. A recog nized leader of the Christians, de fying the very men of whom he had once been so afraid; honest, rock- ribbed, standing up for the Master when it meant risking his life to do so. Even if yon could not believe the mirscle-etorles which are told about him In Acts, you would have to admit that it is not every man who has mir acle-stories told about him. It is no weakling who has th» reputation of being able to raise men from the dead and to kill liars with a glance of the eye. • • • Transforming Secret W HAT WAS the secret of Peter’s transformation from the half braggart, half-coward he used to be, to the stalwart fearless man -of power he became? The answer is in those stories in our Scripture readings from Matthew and John. The first tells of Jesus* faith in Simon Peter. The second tells of that again, and also of Peter's response to Jesus' faith in him. It is the secret of any Christian’s success in being all that God knows he can be. (Copyright by the International Coun cil of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Release* by WNU Features.) Are two sisters often real friends? Answer: Not if they are of nearty the same age. If they are far enough apart so that the older can take a maternal attitude toward the young er, deep affection may grow up be tween them. But if they are close together, they will usually be so jealous of each other that their mutual feelings are unconsciously or openly hostile. The same prin ciple -a jiplies to brothers except that because they’re more apt to have friends and interests away from home, they are thrown into less ac tive competition for prestige or their parents' favor. Should adopted children have “ready-made answers”? Answer: Yes, says Dr. Arthur L. Rautman of Carleton College, Min nesota. Obsolete but still surviving prejudices will expose such children —and their foster parents—to rude questions from people who know no better, and the parents should not only anticipate this but prepare the children to answer such queries as “Did you know that you are adopt ed?” or “Who are your ‘real’ father and mother?” For unless the chil dren know the facts and have been told what to say, their playmates will piake life miserable for them. May high living standards »* breed neuroses? / *'- Answer: Indirectly, yes. For where thfere is no choice, real or imagined, there can be no conflict. A man who has no alternative to working sixteen hours a day if he wants to survive will adjust him self to endless drudgery almost automatically—or else' give up and die. But the man who knows he will be taken care of somehow if he is unable to work may be driven against his conscious will into a physical or mental illness by his childish (and unconscious) desire to be rid of his responsibilities and do nothing but “enjoy life.” A LARGE R^AaVy OF CHILDREN WAS CONSIDERED A GREAT BLESSING IN BIBLE TIMES. THEV WERE SUBJECT TO THE FATHER IN ALL THINGS, AND WERE LIABLE TO BE SOLD INTO BONDAGE FOR HIS DEBTS. THE FIRST-BORN SON RECEIVED A DOUBLE PORTION OF HIS FATHER'S ESTATE, THE DAUGHTERS NOTHING. KEEPING HEALTHY J Medical Treatment of Severe Goiter By Dr. James W. Barton 1 HAVE WRITTEN before of a physician friend who walked from his home to my office, a dis tance of four blocks, sat down for a couple of minutes, then asked me to take his pulse rate. The pulse rate was 72 which is normaL He then informed me that he had undergdne surgical removal of the serious type of goiter, exopthalmic goiter, just three weeks before. His pulse rate before operation was 110 and his basal metabolism rate 25 above normal. It is because of this rapid re covery after surgical removal of the thyroid gland that operation is the favorite treatment for serious goiter (rapid heart beat, trembling, bulging eyes). However, there are cases in which- surgical operation is not ad visable' and so other methods of treating exopthalmic goiter must be considered. For this reason some cases are treated by X-ray or radium and others by medical treatment. In Annals of Clinical Medicine, Beunos Aires, Dr. E. S. Mazzei states that propylthiouracil Is the most reliable drug in the treatment of serious goiter. The necessary or therapeutic dose is smaller than that of thiouracil and is well tol erated. The beginning dosage is 150 mg. divided into three or four fractional or divided doses given at regular intervals. The daily dose can be reduced to 25 or 50 mg. at a later date and ia maintained for six months or long er provided no reactions occur. To make sure that too much propyl thiouracil is not given, the basal metabolism test is made to prevent the opposite effect of goiter—slow ness of heart beat and excess fat —occurring. This drug, propylthiouracil, is recommended in (1) cases of mod erate goiter with goiter of moderate size and without pressure on the windpipe (trachea), (2) when sur gical operation might be danger ous, (S) in teen-age boys and girls, in the elderly, and in patients with heart disease, and (4) when a pa tient refuses operation. Myxedema, the condition in which the thyroid gland is not man ufacturing enough thyroid juice, is one of the commonest causes of mental illness. • • • Less surgery will be necessary in eye, ear, nose and throat afflic tions in the future because of pen icillin and other germ-killing meth- oda Some sign of melancholia are: slowness in walking, talking and answering questions, staring ex pression with glassy eyes, loss of appetite and weight, nervousness, insomnia. • • • A small proportion of any group of individuals has a high propor tion of the accidents which occur to the entire group. Cutting Guides Furnished Bell-Ringing Windmill Wind Mill As Weathervane T HE PATTERN gives actual | size cutting guides for shaped parts; and illustrates simple mechanism that rings the bell. Painting transfer patterns to make a perfect job. • • • v •' •. Everything Is complete on pattern 239. Pries 25c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedferg HUU. 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