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■huraday, September 5,1946. }ROAD river „ r a nd Mrs. Eric Richards,and mi iv from Tampa, Fla., are in • r ' summer home on Glade reek. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley and n Livingston, visited Mr. and . g H. White, Sunday. o t\[i- and Mrs. Paul Rollins and lildren of Greer, S. C., spent the eek en d with their Grandmother . S. J. White, and their aunt • rs , M. Frady of Lakey Gap Rd. o pr A. F. Fortune, Sr., of reenaborq, N. C„ visited his )US jn Mrs. Sarah White, last Jonday. This is the first time he as been in this section. He was ccompanied by a brother and his m Dr. A. F. Fortune, Jr. Mrs. Maggie Gilliam and grand aughter, Barbara Jean Gilliam [sited their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. o hn H. White last Saturday. o Mrs. Daisy Culbreth of Norfolk, a , i s back on the River after a vo week’s visit in Greenville, S. and Asheville. She expects to eturn home Sunday. o Mrs. Mary White celebrated her ,9th birthday September Ist. "your “SHIP WILL COME IN” Sooner By the Aid of Newspaper ADVERTISING 1 fsmmi BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS ■ 4! We Welcome Your Battery For A Complete Check-up MOORE BROS. PURE OIL STATION Black Mountain ,N. C. ITS YOUR SAY iEND IN YOUR NEWS Bring in vour battery | set for conversion to | electric. I Complete I Radio Service f By i Trained Technicians X Using Modern | Test Equipment i Pick Up And f Delivery J MURRY’S RADIO I COMPANY I Near Bus Station I Phone 3791 | Protection, Comfort Important In Infant or Toddler Garments £rtta J^adeu. V\7"HEN vve think of clothes for babies, most of us make the mistake of clothing them, at least in our thoughts, with ruffles and bil lowy dresses. Actually, though, the most important considerations in making baby's clothes sensible are comfort, protection, room for rapid growth and room for plenty of movement. So, when you plan a layette, or do some sewing for a friend with a baby, don’t get too sentimental. The gift-type garment may bring most Ahs and Ohs from friends, but the mother will appreciate sim plicity and ease of placing the gar ment on the baby most of all, and this should be your main aim. It certainly will be your main theme if you’ve ever tried to dress a squirming, wriggling youngster. The garments you'll want to avoid are those with tiny collars that wrinkle and crush easily, garments that have to be slipped over the head, and tight, gathered sleeves. Whenever you can, make clothing for baby with wide, raglan sleeves because these slip on so easily. Show a definite preference for gar ments that open and close in front, particularly nightgowns and the like that can be folded over and tied. Fabrics may be just a little diffi cult to find, but remember to choose those that are soft and fine: batiste, soft muslin, voile, extra-soft flannel and crepe. The seams may be French fell, flat hand-rolled or bound. , Special Care Needed For Toddler’s Clothes Have you ever watched a baby learning to crawl or reach? Notice this the next opportunity you have and see how much leeway the gar ment has to have to accommodate all this activity. The sleeves should be loose and free so as not to put any strain on the youngster. The little seat of the pants comes in for its share of the strain too. Little rompers or panties for the baby at the creeping stage need extra full ness at the back, and should be shorter in the front because of the positions they get themselves Into. Because toddler’s garments come in for their share of buttoning and $ * * If you’re sewing lor baby. . . . unbuttoning, you will want to make these as secure as possible. Top tips which you will want to follow for sewing on buttons are these: first, use only a single thread; sec ond, do not make the mistake of sewing on the buttons too tight. There is pull and strain on the but ton that easily gives way if it hugs the garment too tightly. Save the Sentiment, Lean Toward Practical All mothers want their youngsters to have lovely pastel coats of soft wool with silk linings. This is a nice sentimental gesture, but actually this type of coat is more practical if made with flannel or challis that is unlined. Then the coat is more easily made, simply washed and more durable. Another good idea is to spend time making rompers in several sizes for the toddler. Boys, of course, use rompers as soon as they begin to crawl, but it isn’t such a bad idea to make rompers for little -~1 Make them sensible and practical. girls, too. Dresses may be lovelier, but if you will notice, they easily get in the baby’s way. and she may trip and fall more often than nec essary. Dress the child as if she Summer Fashion Notes For beach and sports wear, these are the fabrics found most suit able: shantung, calico and chintz. Select them in their brightest, gay est colors. Brown and white spectator sports dresses will, I think, always be popular during the summer. When they match shoes and bags they give the impression of neatness and trim. Figure-Hugging V'w ■ l|g ißlllllllgfi i fc;* flji 11 * Jew . 1 1 This duotone wool suit from Gunth sports a figure-hugging jacket and turn back collar and cuffs. The blouse is matching African marigold rayon crepe and the belt is ginger pigskin. The halo hat is made of straw, banded in velvet. were an active youngster instead of just a pretty doll, and the baby will be much better off. Always make little girl’s dresses with large hems. Then as the child grows, the hems can be let out and more wear achieved from the gar ment. A little girl’s dress should have an opening sufficiently large around the neck to permit easy getting in and out. Only one button is used for this opening. Very large or small buttons or snaps and hooks are considered poor choice for youngster’s gar ments. Child authorities say that it is easy for the child learning to dress to use the medium-sized flat button, but he is lost with the out size or small size. Teach him self reliance by making it easy for him to dress himself. For boys’ one-piece garments, use a drop seat controlled by a belt. This is easy for the boy to manage even at an early age and looks neat. The drop seat can have an elastic rim through a casing so that it snaps back into place easily after being stretched. Laundering Tips Study the directions that come with your garments when you wash them. It’s no longer true that everything must be washed in the hottest water possible. Sort clothing so that all sim ilar colors are washed at one time with light clothes first. Bluing follows the final rinse, and is usually given to all white clothes to prevent them from turning yellowish after age. Starching follows the bluing proc ess, but in many cases these two are combined when you use a ready-made starch that has the bluing already added to it. This mixture is ready to use and is just diluted as directed. Select a ready-made starch that is smooth, otherwise you will have difficulty mixing it with the wa ter. Clothes should be properly hung to save ironing time. A gar ment hung on the “off grain” will not iron well and will not set properly when worn. Hang dresses by the skirts or at the shoulder seams; hang socks by the top so as not to put unnec essary wear on the foot, etc. Iron rayons and synthetic fab rics according to instructions that come with them. Your heat ing guide on the iron will be an invaluable aid in applying the correct amount of heat to each type of fabric. You’ll find few sleeves on dresses for sportswear of this type, the Idea being that you want as much sun as you can get, and also, no sleeves will offer more freedom for playing. Felts are scheduled to be made in a tempting array of colors, and you’ll find many of them made for easy traveling because a big boost in this department Is expected In the coming months. THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS Rules Listed for Treating Heat Victims Heat exhaustion and sunstroke are two entirely different things, al though both may seem to result one from the other. With heat exhaus tion the patient’s skin is cold and clammy—while with sunstroke, the skin is hot and dry. A simple rule may serve as a guide and avoid confusion regarding the treatment. Briefly it is this: If the patient is cold, make him warm; if he is hot, make him cool. The following measures will help prevent heat exhaustion among farm workers: Drink cool water and lemon or other citrus fruit juices, avoiding alcohol and ice water. Eat vegetables and light, easily digest ed foods. Wear light, loose clothing; avoid over fatigue; bathe daily; get plenty of sleep. Replace body salt lost through perspiration by salting food, drinking salt in water, or by taking salt tablets—about eight 10-grain tablets daily. Sunstroke results from prolonged exposure to the rays of the sun. Consequently it is advisable to keep the head covered with a broad brimmed hat and the body, includ ing arms and legs covered with light loose-fitting, comfortable cloth ing. In sunstroke cases move the patient to a cool, shady spot, remove the clothing and then place him on his back with head and shoulders raised. Apply ice cold cloths to the head and cool the body gradually with a cool bath. Call a doctor as soon as possible and administer cool drinks (not cold) if the patient is conscious. Explore Means to Increase Oil in Corn Breeding a by-product value into corn—an increase of oil in the germ —has advanced as an economic pos sibility as a result of research by department of agriculture chemists. They have found that the oil con tent of hybrid corns may differ widely—as much as 36 per cent in the case of two popular hybrids. As a result, corn growers one of these days may be growing and sell ing new hybrid corns bred to supply more corn oil when processed—and worth more on the. market because of this increase in oil value. This applies particularly to grow ers who sell corn for use in indus tries producing products such as starch, alcohol, breakfast foods, hominy and oil. The oil reaches the public and industry in a variety of commodities ranging from short ening, margarine and salad dress ings to soap, paint, varnishes and printing ink. The importance of corn oil in the United States —production averaged more than 200 million pounds annu ally from 1940 to 1945—started re search at the department’s North ern Regional Research laboratory, Peoria, 111., to discover the range of oil content in hybrid corns, wheth er the variation is wide enough to be significant to both growers and processors. F. R. Earle, J. J. Curtis and J. E. Hubbard found that two commonly grown hybrid varie ties showed a difference of at least 36 per cent in their yields of oil. In most corn the oil is mainly in the germ. By dissecting many ker nels and analyzing the parts it was found that hybrids did not differ from open-pollinated varieties in their physical proportions. Oil was still confined mainly to the germ wheth er oil content was high or low. I > FOR THE SMILE / N OF COMFORT /j Don’t luffer acid indigestion! ( BISMA-REX neutralizes excel! \ / y acid; aide in removing goi! ' / J BISMA-REX ii economical! \ \ / SO d 0,.., SO* A / the \ Available Exclusively DRUG STORE BLACK MOUNTAIN DRUG COMPANY The Rexall Store We Deliver Phone 4121 Electricity on Farms On farms there are many practi cal uses of electricity for saving time and labor, for reducing oper ating costs and increasing farm in come. Electricity provides light and heat and power for many purposes, including refrigeration and the pumping of water. One kilowatt hour will pump 1,000 gallons of wa ter from the average farm well. It will milk 30 cows, heat 5 gallons of water, grind 100 bushels of grain, run a tool grinder for 4 hours, shell 30 bushels of corn, cool 10 gallons of milk, or cut 1 ton of ensilage and elevate it into a 30-foot silo. Run ning water in the house brings better sanitation and saves many steps. Refrigeration preserves food and makes better nutrition possi ble. The electric washer and the electric iron make the family laun dry less of a chore. The radio keeps the farm family in touch with the rest of the nation and the world. Eye-sight is preserved by good lighting. Cool Room There are several tricks of fur nishing which will help the family to forget that the mercury is bubbling up around a hundred. If possible, move every bit of unnec essary furniture out of the room. If you have well-finished floors, you may wish to roll up the rug and use some inexpensive grass mats. Or perhaps you are one of the fortunate persons who can move to the porch. Emphasis on cool colors the blues and greens helps to create the right illusion. Take down the heavy, dark draperies and put a temporary cool tint in your window curtains. An excellent way to get around the prickly woolens on youi overstuffed furniture and at the same time carry out your soothing color scheme is to slipcover these pieces. Wash Water Estimates say that most wash days mean a consumption of about 96 gallons of mixed hot and cold water. If an automatic washer, in stead of the conventional washer, is used the water consumption is reduced to about 82 gallons of mixed hot and cold water. The greater per cent of this washday water must be hot. In fact, good results cannot be obtained from automatic wash ers unless the temperature of the water is 140 to 145 degrees F. for the first washing. This is too hot if the user has to get her hands into the water, and washing in the ordinary washer is done with hot water at a temperature of about 125 degrees F. ||a, . Choice Os Three I 9| Fine quality built “conversa- I Jj| back, channel tufted or wing I JK I back. Attractive figured tapes- B covers. Exposed frames in ■ HtTKKUI 16 BILTMORE AVE. ASHEVILLE, N. C. I Subscribe now for The Black Mountain News .<■ m mm ; MICHIGAN WHEAT TITHING PROJECT ... A block-long fence of wheat was built at Adrian, Mich., for the Lord by Michigan and Ohio farmers who joined with Perry Hayden, Tecumseh, Mich., to complete a six-year tithing project. The original cubic inch of wheat planted by Hayden multiplied into a 2,660-acre crop in its sixth year. You Get jPji g I. you deal with us. ™ THE NORTHWESTERN BANK Member F. D. I. C. Black Mountain, North Carolina uummuu-uu-I mmmmmmummmmumt Page 5
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