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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-05-15, Page 3By Their Dress You May Know Them Deliberateand orderly by na- ture, Amos Zaugg does not do things on the spur of the mo- ment; he likes to plan his days In advance, and has -a firm belief in the homely virtue of punctu- ality, In his home, as in most others in this locality, clocks are kept from ten to thirty min- utes fast to prevent tardiness. Emmaline, on the other hand, follows a work pattern that is more elastic, and one of her en- dearing traits is her chi'l'd=like impulsiveness. If she feels "for dyeing" on a weekday, „no mat- ter which one, out come her dye pots. And no gifted artist with palette and brush ever mixed colors with more artistry than this .simple Dutch housewife. Out of her judicious blendings she brings forth bright violet, soft delphinium -blue, rich wine - red, brilliant winter - wheat green, midnight -black, and all the shades of gray. Once we are deep in winter, all the farm wives hereabout get busy with their sewing. There is no exchanging of pat- terns, as in communities not peopled by the "plain" sects. For Emmaline and the other Amish - women there is once one way to make a dress: a tight bodice with long sleeves, a kerchief brought to a point below the waist both in front and in -back, a long full skirt. No trimmings of braid, ruching, or embroid- ery is allowed; color is their only outlet for creative urgings, and it is restricted to the young girls. ' Married women wear blank, or a subdued dark gray. It is like the habit worn .by mem- bers of an order, not subject to change. But these fixed modes portray a way of life that has successfully combated the blight. of the century: materialism. Men's and boys' clothes are made at home -for where could you buy a suit with broadfall pants and a coat without lapels? So broadcloth is bought by the bolt, and fastenings of hooks and eyes -and even zippers - for Only buttons are forbidden. It was the lavish use of buttons on military uniforms in the sev- enteenth and eighteenth cen- turies that led to the Amish ban on buttons. Emmaline sews aprons and bonnets of black for herself, and under- •". e commodious bonnet, Witha full skirt or ruffle in back, she wears her simple little prayer caps of white lawn or white net throughout the day to cover her head, as St. Paul commanded, and to be ready at any time of the day for prayer. Anna and Hilda have bonnets of soft rose and blue "for nice" and their mother makes little black jackets for them to wear to church under their fringed shawls. They are counted young ladies now, and Emmaline half sighs and says: "No more yet do I put tucks in the skirts and sleeves tolet out for growings." In all this flurry of sewing, no drapes or curtains are made for the small -paned windows, for these are strictly forbidden. Yet there are ways to beautify a house without ostentation. In room -to -room doorways where there are no wooden doors, her handiwork is evident in bright - hued curtains that swing and flutter briskly with each passing to and fro. Clean rag rugs dot the kitchen floor; hooked rugs are used ,in the "good" room, and pretty embroidered towels made by the girls, as well as calen- dars from the local business firms, snake bright spots on oth- erwise austere walls. Every sunny window is filled with potted plants: geraniums, begonias, primroses, delicate Patience Plants, and the prized Christmas cactus, to name a few. Large windowpanes may be forbidden, but the small panesshine from daily wipings • and seem more cheerful than any picture windows ever de- vised. Over all, there is the at- mosphere of home. Trina held .her first quilting party in 41ier new home this winter, and therewas a great to-do there as she and Eli got ready for the quilters, Every- thing is always neat and clean, but of course there.had tobe a sort of supercleaning for the big event, witheven the cellar stairs getting a good scrubbing by the man of the house. No quilting would be 'considered complete unless everyone was invited down cellar to see theshelves of homemade jellies, canned toma- toes and string beans, sour cher- ries for pies, ,chow -chow, picca- lilli and ketchup, spiced pears and peaches, and all the other good things that are there in abundance. Every woman has these same things at home in her own cellar, but it is a sort of ritual, and they would feel cheated if denied the opportun- ity to inspect it. Trina's shelves were perfect, from the fringed paper linings to the last shining jar, and there were two items on them that captivated her guests: whole string beans and tiny spiced crabapples dyed red with food coloring. "Ach, it's just some- thing I thoughtup to do," she protested, but her eyes were shining and her cheeks were pink as the primroses in her window, and, one could see that Emmaline was pleased that her son's wife should show such in- genuity. It is by such things that happiness is achieved here where housewifely arts are so highly prized. Eight women, each provided with her own needles and shears, and with a long white sleevelet • drawn over her quilting arm, gathered around the frames stretched on the backs of four chairs in the living room. No- where are patchwork quilts more beautiful in design, more exquisitely sewn, Trina's quilt had a border of grape clusters, with each grape tufted and hand -sewn or appli- qued on a white top to form a design as startlingly vivid and clear as any pattern etched on fine china. One dared not voice fully the praise it deserved in a company of women dedicated to abstinence from all forms of pride, so I could only call it "pretty," a puny word for such beauty. A queen might delight in such a cover for her bed, yet Trina could only allow that it would be "nice and cool for summer." There was much chatting about quilts and who was mak- ing what kind. I heard of one called "Turkey Tracks," another was "Four Doves in a Window," then there was mention of "Tree of Paradise," "Seven Stars," and the ever popular "Bethlehem Star." I wanted to see them all, and may in time. A delectable Odor pervaded every nook and corner of Trina's clean house as the noon hour drew nearer. It was not quite the pungent scent of sauerkraut, but akin to it. Lizzie Mast, bux- om and hearty, identified it for me: sauerbraten. Food for a " quilting party is always furn- ished by the hostess, and for this most important occasion Trina had selected the zesty meat dish that employs ginger- snaps as an ingredient for the gravy with which it is covered when served. ' It has been said of them, "By their dress, you may know the Amish.." It could as truly be said of their faces, for they portray the rewards of a good way of life. -By Mabel Slack Shelton in The Christian Science Moni- tor. A dairy cream which can be kept without refrigeration up to six months has been developed by the U.S. Department of Agri- culture. CROSSWORD 8. Rumor 9. Destiny Ill (lulrlo's note 1 I.Rouse angle tJL ,I i Al i. Request �I t,,�'m, 38. Ali that could be desired 22 Distant but DOWN - within view 1. 113untinution 24 Wide. 2 .Declare tomtit; ed jar 3 Kind of 25 (ion tallied rubber 26 r'Ity of the 4. 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Sow enters "pigloo" at least seven days before farrowing. WLPAIN F2OT The following account of what !some Oregon wheat growers have done towards getting rid of their surplus grain is repro- duced here because it seems so different from what is happen- ing on this side of the border, where the tendency is to blame' either our own government or the "dam Yanks." • • • A few thousand Oregon wheat growers are changing the eating habits of literally millions of men, women, and children in the Orient. Three years ago the Oregon Wheat Growers League set about the considerable task of educating the Japanese palate to wheat products as a substi- tute for the facie food, rice. So successful has been the promotional program that it will now be extended throughout southern and southeastern Asia, in India, Pakistan, Burma, Thai- land, and Indonesia. 9 • • As the Oriental taste discov- ers wheat, the objective of the Oregon wheat salesmen is be- ing realized: The wheat surplus of the Oregon -Washington -Idaho "inland empire" is dwindling away. Shipments of wheat to 'Japan and India from North- west ports have never been so great. • 9 • In 1955, the league took the first small step in its campaign to win a new market of a billion consumers. It dispatched to Ja- pan an Oregon farmer, Joseph Spiruta, with instructions to make friends, influence people and sell wheat. He did all three. • • • The program established so recently in such a small way has produced startling results• and has been significantly expanded. The league's chemists . and home economists have devised new processes for wheat, result- ing in grain products which cook much like rice. Under various trade names, these new wheat products have become popular in this country as well as in Japan and India, for whose tastes they were prepared. • • • ' In Japan, the league has taken its demonstration of .wheat as a food directly to the people. A fleet of eight mobile kitchens has been operating throughout. the rural areas of Japan show- ing Japanese housewives the uses of wheat flour and other wheat products. Recipes feature the combination of wheat pro- ducts and foods' available to families in Japanese villages and towns, such as fish sausage, whale meat, ginger and beans. e. • + The leagues representatives ,are also helping with the Japan- ese school lunch program. More than six million Japanese school children -half of the entire en- rollment of Japan's elementary schools - receive wheat Polls with their lunch. Prior to the Oregon -based experiment, few had ever tasted wheat rolls. • • 4 The school program is in the process of expansion to reach another 500,000 Japanese chil- dren. The camps'gn to win the hearts of the children's mothers also will be enlarged. Four new lcitr!,on eeuir'-cd hoses . will be added to the demonstration fleet. The aim is to reach at least 45 per cent of the popula- tion of Japan living outside the large urban areas with the hope that, once having tasted wheat products, these millions will be- come permanent customers of the Oregon wheat farmer. • • • The league also conducts a bakery training school in con- junction with the Japan Insti- tute of Baking in Tokyo. Stu- dents learn to create a variety of products from Oregon wheat flour. • • * The impact of the league's Far East development program is apparent in statistics released here recently by Jack Smith of Condon, Ore., president of the league. In certain areas visited by the league's mobile kitchens in Japan, wheat consumption has tripled, from 30 pounds per capita per year to 90 pounds. At the same time, average Jap- anese annual per capita con:. sumption of rice has declined from 330 to 264 pounds. Mr. Smith credits the league's pro- gram with the remarkable in- roads wheat has made on the traditional Japanese staple, rice. * • • Early this month, Wayne B. Gentry of Pendleton, a former United States Foreign Service officer, arrived in Japan for a period of indoctrination prior to taking charge of the league's program in India. The India program will be expanded to match that in Japan. And next will come other countries noted above. Oregon has found that there is a better way than letting sur- plus wheat pile up in elevators and moth -balled ships. What's in a Name? Proud parents of a bonny baby boy in Italy recently expressed their pride in his birth by giv- ing him no fewer than sixteen Christian names. Whether the boy will like hav- ing such a long name when 17e grows up is a matter for specu- lation. His initials alone take up quite a lot of space. They are: S. F. I1. K. 0. L. R. W. U. T. Z. A. P. Y. B. E. M. If the day comes when that lad is asked to write clown his full name for some business pur- pose, he'll, be kept pretty busy and may even develop writer's cramp! It was the boast of an Ohio woman named Miss Cerasacasa- dannovaladetzalazambra that she could pronounce her astonishing suinname in one breath. The shortest of all genuine surnames is believed to be 0. When a Belgian business execu- tive, Mr. Anton 0, visited Lon- don six years ago he had great difficulty in persuading people to spell his surname correctly. A hotel clerk, for instance, seem- ed convinced that he was an Irishman with only part of a surname. Another very short surname is Irish - Fk. A once -famous explorer was named John Ex and one of his Swedish descend- ants, named Ede Eh, used to claim that her natnes were the shortest in the world. Bath In Dew Was Beauty Treatment It was a sunny morning in, early May and the village clock was striking six as the young French farmer strode across on* of his fields to tend his lambs. Suddenly he saw something which made him rub his eyes in amazement. Rolling in the d e w y grass ahead of him were two of the local village girls. Unaware that anyone was near, the girls were bathing their slim bodies in the fresh morning dew. The farmer gallantly called out to warn them of his ap- proach: With startled, cries the girls dashed for their clothes, darted behind a hedge and dressed hurriedly. A few minutes later they were explaining to the highly amused fanner. A beauty expert had told them dew was very good for the skin, so they hadrisen early to get some free treat- ment at nature's expense. They confessed that they had visited the field unobserved on three previous mornings that week and claimed that as a result, their skins were already much clearer and smoother. It was, however, the last time the blushing girls visited that particular field for their beauty treatment! Taking a bath in May dew was a popular custom among French girls early in the last century. The two twentieth- century girls had been doing exactly what their great-grand- mothers and great -great-grand- mothers and great -great -great- grandmothers had done before them, Woman's unceasing quest for natural and artificial aids to glamoursometimes takes quaint forms. Ever since the voluptu- ous a n d fascinating Cleopatra bathed in asses' milk, women have tried immersing themselves in all kinds of fluids and have spent fortunes in their search. for greater beauty. Roman beauties bathed in a s t is k y mixture of mllk and honey. A French beauty, the Empress Eugenie, wife 'of Napoleon III, had a beauty -bath every day in strawberry juice. She had beds of strawberries specially grown for this purpose. Only a few weeks ago the film actress w 11 a of a Hollywood bandleader started a new beauty fashion by bathing in coffee, each bath costing her about $60. Some Scottish fisher girls de- clare that buttermilk, in which the hard roe of a herring has been macerated, will remove tan and freckles. In some parts of rural England girls used to ga- ther the roots of the common bracken fern, dry them thor- oughly and pound them in a mortar. The result was a starchy meal which made an ex- cellent face powder of a creamy colour and velvety softness. Cosmetics today are perfectly safe to use, but it was differ- ent in the past when women sometimes died because of their vanity. It is on record that Maria Gunning, Countess of Co- ventry, youngest of the famous Trish Gunning sisters, whose beauty was the toast of the eighteenth -century beaux, died. at the age of twenty-seven from acute lead -poisoning after coat- ing her face with dangerous white -lead powder. Real estate salesman C. E. Swindler won court pernfessien to change his name because it interfered with business. NDS' SCIIOOl LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren' B.A., B.D. When God's People Worship Exodus 35: 20-26; 40: 34-38. Memory Selection: Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His Name: bring an offering, and come into His courts. Psalm 96:8. Building a .place of worship is an important an d arduous task. Doing it while treking through the wilderness adds t0 the difficulties. But the manner in which Moses and the Children of Israel constructed the build- ing of the tabernacle has many lessons for us. The leader, Moses, had receiv- ed a vision from God for this • work. He saw the Divine plats and received specific instruc- tions. He knew God's will in this matter. He had the ability to communicate this vision and en- list the enthusiastic cooperation of the people This is important, As people have a share in build- ing a place of worship so they will want to participate in the worship of God there. Group participation may seem a more cumbersome way of doing the job but it yields lasting divi- dends. The response of the people was overwhelming. They were under no compulsion to give: their forefathers, Abraham and Jacob, had paid tithes to the Lord. But these people were wandering in the wilderness and raising no crops. They did have flocks and herds however. They gave with a willing heart, They presented their bracelets, ear- rings, rings and jewels of gold for the furnishing of the taber- nacle. Men who had shittim wood that was serviceable brought it. Women spun goats' hair and prepared linen, Moses finally had to ask the people to cease from bringing for they had too much. They gave as unto the Lord. Finally the work was finished. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. The cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night. When the cloud was taken up it was the signal for the people to move. Many churches are being built today. One editor praised those who give sacrificially and "mort- gage themselves to the hilt to Make the House of God a thing of beauty.' One minister replied, "Rather praise those who give sacrificially, build simply, spend sanely, and make the church a thing of beauty ... without join- ing the thousands who are the victims of the 'mortgage to the hilt' craze of our day." Follow- ing the minister's advice may aid us In sensing more readily the presence of the glory of the Lord when we enter to worship. Upsidedown to Prevent Peehind O 3 1 3 A 3 1 1 na OId31,dO1 O O 3 .1. d V N 3 3 M 9 3 V 9 3 O 1 3 14 9 V l O 9 0 0 9 9 30 0 d V M 3 S N 0 A 0 .1. 3 H 0 3 8 s 9 9 V .1. v V a D V 9 .1. 11 1'1V 31VBVi, VA3 333!x3d VS dVI V d V D 3 S THE CAT'S HAT -Fashion -conscious "Boots" keeps her ears warm with o stylish head scarf. Boots likes to get dressed up but usually winds up stepping on the ends of the scarf e.7,d flipping her topper.