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v , v * ** ' 'V 1 * 1 ' PG. 2 - PLAINDEALER - FRI. DEC. 20, 19681 Wedding Plans j-vX"- r ^ :w% "*r * ' . " apter In ' |M"i?7V' f'-' }f - i«f9?!SS0; -V MISS LAURA LEIGH PERRY / •Bride ,JI . t. . . . . . . . . W &'-L-r , > t" ' "* / 0 ' '•'••'• to McHenry school West ' • Mr. aiid' Mrs. E.W. Perry of Wonder Lake announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Leigh, of Santa Monica, Calif** to James Raymond Pumphrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Pumphrey of Baltimore, Md. A February wedding is planned: / * tlie Commons Community high campus was the setting for the pre-Christt^as meeting of Alpha Theta Chapter, Delia .Kappa Gamnia society, recently. thirty-two^ members of Future Teachers groups in McHenry, county high schools, and two foreign exchange students were welcomed as guests Dorothy Ullrich, president. The featured speaker, Richard A. Swantz, principal at West campus, . was introduced by Helen Curran, program chairman. Mr. Swantz summarized the reasons for, and manner in which the innovative scheduling for the 738 juniors and seniors enrolled at West campus has been programmed by computer. Gone are the traditional fiftymitiute class periods; "in" are twenty-two minutes in lefigth. Twin objectives in the new program are individualizing instruction and placing major re*. sponsibility for learning directly on the student. The impact of this fourth "R" - responsible ity - is being feltas.thestudents accept the challenge presented by the new flexibility in the 1ise of school time. * Follow^ : a ishbrt Queis^bfi and answer period, McHenry F. T.A. members assumedtherole of guides, and conducted the group through the building, calling attention to special features such as the unusual resource itrnw centers for each discipline. , At the business meetingwhich concluded activities, it was announce^ that members had contributed over 150 gift-wrapped packages for the patients in Elgin State hospital. rstitions MEMORIAL HOSPITAL . , WOODSTOCK On Dec. 14 a daughter was born to Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Walling of Wonder Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Parlow are parents of a son Dec. 12. Mr. and Mrs. John McNish announce the birth of a son Dec. 9.1 A son was born Dec. 11 to Mr. and Mrs. John Miller. , Hold Sing, Si .;mVV. H 1 Pink Lady" Christmas Christmas arrives atthe Pink Lady Shoppe in the McHenry hospital. Mrs. Lawrence Huevelman, right, shows one of the many gift items available to an interested visitor, Mrs. Beverly Lee. "We do not have aJjazaarorYummage/ sale" said Mrs. Huevelman, "and proceeds from the sale of gifts and other items help benefit the hospital through the work of the Woman's auxiliary". Hie shop is located just off the lobby of the McHenry hospital and is open week days 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ^iuNtativity To Give ^Christmas Program 4. * December 22 * David LaGreca, 5, Wonder * Lake, will play a featured role * when Nativity Lutheran church, C "Wonder Lake, presents its •; annual Christmas program Sunday, Dec. 22, at 6:45 p.m. > Preceding the meaningful Christmas pageant, a pot-luck *• dinner for members of the J parish and the Sunday School I children will start at 5:30 p.m. - Sunday School superintendent, Mrs. Marie Helm, is general £ chairman. Z During the program portion * when young David plays the -* "Little Drummer Boy", the Sunday School children will decorate the tree and sing carols, accompanied by church organist and Confirmation choir director, Miss Cheryl Elberson. Guitarists, Mrs. Gordon Gran, Mrs. Glenn Robe and Miss Sylvia Helm, will contribute vitally to the program. The Rev. David H. Allin is the new minister at Nativity. ers FUMT1ME IS BOWUN6 mmmmim TIME. SPECIAL!! 3 Lines $ 1.00 No Age Limit WED. ONLY fcs Mr. and Mrs. Harold Frett, accompanied by their daughter, and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bohuslav, of Arlington Heights, vacationed the past week in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Calif., enjoying the many sights including Disney Land. The trip was made by plane. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK During the past week patients admitted to Memorial hospital, Woodstock, included Rosemary Jorgenson, Christine Sances, Theresa Rodgers, Martha Feitz, Mrs. Clara Miller, Charlotte Dasing, McHenry; James Boyd, June Roske, Lois Osteen, Peggy Sterba, James Strachota, Harold Hoffman, Mary Anderson, Wonder Lake; Ewald Koenemann, Round Lake. u HARVARD HOSPITAL Thomas Hountras and Florence Johnson of McHenry were patients in Harvard hospital during the past week. $ 0 v * * Beauty superstitions can be puzzling if you don't recognize them for what they are. If youthinkthere's not much you can do to retard the aging process of your skin -- that eating beets will give you rosy cheeks --or that garlic can make your teeth gleam, there may be more witchcraft than wizardry in your beauty program. Women once tried to lighten their hair with oney, and one famous queen took strawberry baths to keep her skin soft and snowy white. Johnsburg 3312 Chapel Hill Rd. Make your reservation early You may not insist on baths in crushed strawberries like one famous queen did, but chances are you hold at least one beauty superstition. Have you ever eaten beets for rosy cheeks or garlic for sparkling teeth and shining tresses? Maybe not, but there is food for thought in many a famous and some infamous beauty concoctions! Hie women of both Greece and Rome anticipated Theda Bar a by about twenty centuries when they painted their fiaces with a white lead foundation and then applied chalk powder for a "vamp" look. The juice of strawberries was thought, at me time, to be good for getting rid of freckles and for whitening and preserving the skin; .Marie Antoinette owed her peaches and cream complexion some say, to the fact that she insisted tan ticking baths in crushed strawberries! Not all beauty practices were as harmless as Marie Antoinette's strawberry baths, however. For example, one 16thcentury inventor of a proces s for preparing carbonate of lead for rouge and lip salve described how the men working with the .substance became dizzy, had headaches and often went blind. This information was kqpt secret from the public, though, and the women went right on using the make-up. Even the lemon juice that is still used occasionally today by women who want to lighten their freckles can be harmful, because the harsh citric acid can cause eruptions to break out on sensitive skin. But while some beauty practices have been hazardous, others were far ahead of the scientists. FAMOUS FACIAL The recipe for Helen of Troy's famous facial included such ingredients as ground-up narcissus bulbs, powdered hart'shorn, honey and gum. Apparently it worked--for historians estimate that Helen was 60 years old when Paris abducted her and touched off the Trojan Wars! The narcissus bulbs, hart's horn and honey lost their popularity somewhere along the way, but certain vegetable gums are still used in the manufacture of a variety of cosmetics. European peasant women of a few centuries back thought their kitchens were the best source of cosmetic aids. They powdered their fiaces with plain, everyday flour and used beet juice as rouge. Now ifyouthink this has more to do with baking than beauty,you're wrong! A new beauty aid has recently come out of grandma's kitchen. Would you imagine that corn cob dust is so fine that it makes into a face powder that can't clog pores? Rinsing the face with red wine was a sure-fire way to save your skin--or so thought many ladies of Queen Bess's time. One woman of the day, who apparently thought that it was impossible to have too much of a good thing, was Mary Queen of Scots. Whenshe ruled, she asked for and received a regular government allowance of wine in which to bathe. MILK BATHS But while wine was a cosmetic fit for a queen, most of the ladies of the court had to content themselves with milk baths. Before long, milky skin caught on all over town, and tubs throughout Europe started filling up with the white, foamy beverage. Taking milk baths has soured as a beauty "must" but for many modern women, bath-time iys as important a role, in their beauty programs as ft did for Marie Antoinette or Mary Queen of Scots. The latest in royal treatment for women who prefer to take a scientific, rather than a superstitious approach to their beauty treatment is a moisturizer after the bath. Hair-care has also come a long ways since Cleopatra tinted her tresses with henna. When golden curls became the fashion in ancient Greece, women who wanted to lighten their locks sat sunny-side up with a sticky mixture of honey and hard-boiled egg yolk draped on their locks. Women inthe late 19th century also used egg yolk in homemade shampoos, and today, egg is still in as an ingredient of many shampoos on the market. Victorian ladies used dyes derived from lead, iron and walnut juice. But today women can cover the gray or even change the color of their hair with much less harsh potions thanks to the advances that have made a wide variety of effective, easy-to-use rinses, tints, dyes and color shampoos available. Superstitions still prevail, however, and you're not alone if you believe the old adage, "Pluck out one gray hair, and seven will grow in its place," or avoid covering gray, because dyed hair looks "hard." Another superstition that got its start a few centuries ago and is believed by some people even today is that women who retire after midnight will develop a pale haggard look. Going to bed early is still referred to as "getting beauty sleep." Whether or not you believe any of these beauty superstitions --or have some of your ownseparating fact from fancy and. not sleeping on the job vyhenyou set up your own beauty program may work like magic tQcreate a new, more glamorous you. DEADLINE FOR REFUNDS AND EXCHANGES ON CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE IS SATURDAY, JANUARY/4 AT 6 P.M. GREEN STREET MALL i 1219 N. Green St. McHen St. Johns, New Brunswick, has one of the very few reversing falls in the world. r N O T I C E McHenry School of Beauty Culture will be open for patrons all day Monday, Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Christmas Eve day New Year's Eve day - Open from 8:30 a.m; to 1 p.m. LI NCQLN AND CHARLES AVES Magician Show For Youngster! , On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 21, the Woodstock Fine Arts ' association Will sponsor a carol sing in the Woodstock _ city square and a magician show in^ the Opera House immediately following. AH children are invited to attend but a special invitation is extended to the • small folk, 4 through 8 year olds. The carol sing will begin at 1:30. Everyone i^ asked to gather around the band stand, where someone will lead the singing for the enjoyment of the participants and passersby. After 15 or 20 minutes of singing, everyone will depart for the Opera House, where cocoa and doughnuts will be served. Then while everyone is getting warm, a magician will be behind the "Great Curtain" of the Opera House getting ready to begin his magic show. He has about an hour's worth of tricks for everyone. And the entire afternoon is free to all children. The show will be over about 3:30. Open House Birthday Party For Mrs. Condren Mrs. John (Alice) Condren, ° one of Wonder Lake's favtfrite "senior citizens" will be guest of honor at an open house birthday party Sunday afternoon, Dec. 22. Friends are invited to join, members of the Past Presidents guild of the Ladies' sodality of Christ the King parish hall from 2 until 4 p.m. to celebrate her eightieth birthday. Mrs. Contfren is a graduate of the University of Indiana. She has resided in Wonder Lake for the past eighteen years, -p She was the first president;of the Wonder Lake'Garden club and has been active in many other organizations in this area. ?-S" iZtSiAmmdmn.; DECEMBER 22 Santa Claus willvisitall small children in McHenry Shores Subdivision from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Holiday Hop -- Teen Dance- St. Mary's School Gym - 8 to 10:30 p.m. Music by well known band. DECEMBER 31 Fund Raising Dance - Johnsburg Community club - Sponsored by St. John's Home and School Association. DICKSON MOUNDS CLOSED Dickson Mounds Park, including the picnic grounds and the Eveland prehistoric village site buildings, will be closed to visitors until about March 1, 1969. Winter weather and road maintenance problems make this decision necessary, according to Charles R. DeBusk, deputy director. The museum Ki *' MR. AND MRS. EUGENE STILLING Miss Jeannie Jo Benoche was a lovely lyide on Saturday, Nov. 30, when she approached the altar of St. Patrick's Catholic church to meet her bridegroom, Mr. Eugene Daniel Stilling. Following a trip to Spain, the newlyweds will reside in McHenry. LANGDON STUDIO PHOTO Graridmq Sez - - - The adult feminine image is coming back, and it gives this old-fashioned grandrfta a sense of satisfaction. It has bothered me, no end, to see the mothers a tryin* t' immitate their female offspring, and not the older ones, but the little gals.Seemed rediculous t' people like me, and I had a real sadness fer the little ones, and a pity fer the women, who, it seemed* were afraid of growin' up. Some time ago, in my letters, I mentioned that a female human bein' seems t' be greatly affec- ^pd by the garb she happens t' be a wear in'. Put her intopants, o* any variety, and she assumes the role, hingin' on the Tomboy. Get her into party dress and she is a perfect lady, demure and fine. The trend tf style encouraged her t' try and look like her little daughter, and she acts the part, too. Pm real glad t' see that the real "Woman-look" is t' be the order o* the style of the future, at least fer a while. The main part 0* my worry was, that little girls and boys had not the image of a "Grownup mother." It may not seem so important, from many a point of view, but it truly is a satisfyin* experience t' have a mother that looks like a woman, and not the baby sister in the household. Never can tell how much the younguns have been affected by the recent style, psychologically. I was a thinkin* that the women should have a voice in settin* the styles. O' course, a person kin do as they wish about wearin* them, but many folks feel out cf place if they are different than the majority, and follow the trend o* the day. As fer me, I never did care much what was popular. I kin remember how my friends wanted me t' cut my hair, but I wanted it long, and I kept right on a wearirP it_ like I wanted to.. I looked different than every other gal, and I wasn't bothered by the fact. When it became the style t' wear the hair long, again, I cut mine, jest f see how itwas. One thing, I believe in doin' things accordin' t' how I feel abbut them, and I guess that is the way with a lot o' folks, but <fmany do as the trend dictates, 'cause they don't feel good if they seem different. ' Anyway, Pm glad that <mce more little children will have mothers that look like mothers, and ye kin bet that it will make a big difference in their lives. AFTER THE PARTY Breakfast at Bill's Lamplighter Cafe 3313 W. Elm Street Open Every Day 5 a.m. We'll Open at 2:00 a.m. January 1st. Sittler's CHOCOLATES Sweetest GIFT under the tree I FOR THAT LAST Ml NUTE Q\ FT FOR THAT BUSINESS GIFT FOR THE HOUSE OVER THE HOUDAYS Stocking Stuffers • Christmas Greetings To One & All \ "Try the Agatha Shop first.. . You'll be glad you did" -i,