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/ Wonder Lake Mary Jean Huff 728-0267 Love-Marriage 100 Years Ago Members Urged To Attend Legion Auxil iary Meeting The Wonder Lake Unit 1169 American Legion Auxiliary members are reminded that the regular meeting of the auxiliary is to be held on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. in the post home. President Marge Hartung is urging all members to participate in the meetings as all chairman reports are given and it also gives support to the new of­ ficers this year. President Marge Hartung and Alice Rossberg attended the county meeting held at Woodstock last Friday and will give their reports. Members are also reminded that dues are due and can be sent to Lois Haak or given to any auxiliary member. Lois Haak, publicity. BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Jack Weber on Sept. 17 and to Joan Scheib on Sept. 23. LEGION MEETING The regular meeting of the American Legion Post No. 11609 was scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 16. Commander James Hales announced that events for the coming year were to be planned. The executive board meeting was held on Monday, Sept. 15. Dues are now due for the coming year and may be mailed to the post or paid to any Legion member. Wilbur Haak, Publicity. GIRL SCOUTS The Girl Scout Troops of Kachina Neighborhood (Wonder Lake and Richmond) are beginning their fall program of meetings and ac­ tivities. Brownie Troop No. 418 with Leaders Beverly Haas and Sue Spgraphos, will meet on Tuesdays at Harrison School at 2:40 p.m. Their first meeting was Tuesday, Sept. 9. Troop No. 418 still has some room left for girls interested. Brownie Troop No. 419, Leaders, Betty Harney, Gert Nielsen, Marcy Parker and Marlene Lundborg, will meet on Wednesdays at Harrison School at 2:15 p.m. Their first meeting was on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Troop No. 419's membership for first and second grade girls is filled. Junior Troop No. 534, Leaders, Judy Grauman, Nancy Murray and Carol Tyrell, will meet on Tuesday evenings at Harrison School from 6:30 p.m. til 8 p.m. Their lirst meeting was Tuesday, Sept. 16. Membership in Troop No. 534 is still open for fourth and fifth grade girls. This troop plans a weekend campout at Shabbona Hills Girl Scout Camp in Harvard on Oct. 17. Senior Scout Troop has as its Troop" Advisors, Nancy Berg and Marian Eising. Troop membership is open to all high school girls in the neighboring area and meets approximately once every three months to plan outings and activities. Girls interested in joining may contact Senior Scouts Cindy Berg 653-47771 or Mary Eising 653-9279. Cadette Troop No. 420, Leaders. Mary Lou Cope, Pat Schuler and Gerry Sakinsky, will meet on Wednesday evenings at Greenwood School from 7 to 9 p.m. The first meeting is Wednesday, Sept. 17. Membership in Troop No. 420 is still open to sixth and seventh grade girls. Many varied and interesting ac­ tivities are open to this age group. Leaders are still needed to work with Brownie Troops at (ireenwood School and with the 8th grade Cadette Scouts. If leaders are not found to work with these troops, these girls will not be able to enjoy the Scouting program. Anyone interested in working with girls in the Scouting are encouraged to call Lucy Coleman at 653- 9676 after 5 p.m. Girls interested in joining the above Troops that still have membership openings may do so by contacting the leader or attending a meeting. INSTALL TEACHERS In observance of Catechetical Sunday, celebrated by Catholics throughout the United States, the C C D. teachers will be installed at the 10 o'clock Mass at Christ the King church on Sunday, Sept. 21. Classes for C.C.D. students, kindergarten through seventh grades, will start the week of Sept. 28. Parents- will be notified by the teachers as to the time and place for each child. Eighth grade classes will start Sunday, Oct. 5. Sister Virginia Lawrence will soon be meeting with two Bible Groups at the religion center. "Continuing with the Bible", will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 9:30a.m. and "Beginning the Bible", will begin on Oct. 15 at 9:30 a m. Anyone is welcome to come to either session and may contact Sister Virginia at 653- 2581 for further information. Christ the King parishioners are asked to note that the regular parish council meeting ("Women's Liberation" Not a New Subject!) Although "sexism" and " i i ale chauvinist" were not in the lexicon of the day, ladies writing to newspaper editors a hundred years ago left no doubt of tneir feelings about men and marriage. A check of the files of the Chicago InterOcean for September, 1875, in the Illinois State , Historical library, Springfield, shows that, on the subject of marriage, the paper's female readers had plenty to say and little hesitancy about saying it. "In one breath (men) anathematize all the girls for being anxious to marry," a Clinton, IA, writer protested, "and the next revile them as 'old maids, ' considering that the acme of disgrace. Let me tell the young men that many a wife today would be far better off in every way were she an 'old maid. ' " Warming to the subject, she went on, "No man has a right to marry unless he can give his- wife as good a home as he took her from; no man has a right to ask a girl to leave a home of comfort and affection for his society merely. It is all very beautiful to talk about, but when it comes to want of food and clothing the romance has pretty well evaporated. It is far easier for a girl to support herself before marriage than to support herself and an indolent husband scheduled for Sept. 21 has been changed to Sunday, Sept. 28. SUCCESSFUL GARAGE SALE The Wonder Lake Tennis Boosters are happy to report their weekend garage sale a huge success. They acknowledge the help of all who came and purchased items; also the Wonder Lake Fire department and all those who showed interest in the project. The next meeting of the Booster club will be Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Harrison school. Discussion of business will include final monetary results of the garage sale and planning further activities. New members are always welcome. afterwards." The letter was signed "Patience Pillsbury." A letter signed "Lacinde" went even further: "As the question 'Can young men afford to marry?' has been discussed so long, I should like to ask this: Can young women afford to marry?" Writing from Woodbine, Iowa, Lacinde noted that the majority of that state's population were farmers. She remarked that she knew many farmers who, while not in the least averse to hiring four or five or even seven or eight farm hands, would never think of hiring help for their wives who cooked and laundered for the hands as well as for the family. "Iowa has thousands of young women, who, as clerks, teachers, authors, milliners, dressmakers, typesetters, etc., are not only supporting themselves comfortably, but laying up a fund for a rainy day. Talk of a husband sup­ porting them! Not a few Iowa women are supporting their husbands. "And when some women by marriage give up their present independent positions," Lacinde concluded, "and then proceed to cook, wash, and sew for a family merely for the sake of being supported, an outcry of 'female extravagance' is raised by their liege lords and taken up and echoed by the world. If they ask for money to get a magazine, a volume of poems, A-l HEARING AID „ , SERVICE , Free Loaners - Complete Service on all Makes Custom Earmolds-30Day Trial on New Aids Try Before You Buy! c Maico-^enUfh-Radio EatT., Quamone R0BT. STENSLAND & ASSOC 3937 W. Main St. 385-7661 Behind-the-ear AID tt aa Reg. $239 * JJ \A( )VI( ,< >\AI KY vlva U u SAT., SUN. 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A Chicagoan, however, identified only as "N.L.," clearly did not sympathize with those who extolled the single life: "The present progressive state of social reform," wrote N.L., "by considering (single people) as if- in every respect they were the equals of married people, by according to them the right to be guided by their own inclinations, and by neglecting to visit upon them the disapprobation that they once received, has knocked from under the great institution of matrimony one of its strongest supports and left it tottering on the verge of an impending and final crash..." The end of marriage, N.L. perceived, "made now almost a foregone conclusion by the mistaken and neglectful policy of the young people of today, will begin the great preparation for the end of the world..." If so, "Nell" of Hamilton, Illinois, offered one ex­ planation: "I always go home from a party disgusted with myself and1 with mankind in general. We girls, when we are together, do not talk as much nonsense in one week as we do in one hour in young gen­ tlemen's company." For example, Nell wrote that she and a young man "had been discussing the marriage question. He had said he for one could not afford to get married. .JOIN COMMUNITY New families at Wonder Lake include Cris Grunst. 7202 Salem road. Feyerer subdivision; David E. Jones. 8211 Elm wood drive. Wonder View No 1; Ronald Montgomery. 4705 W. Lake Shore drive. White Oaks Bay No. 2; Thomas P. Mrowka, 7201 Hiawatha drive, Indian Ridge No. 2; Gene P. Skultety. 3601 Meadow lane. Highland Shores No. 5. SERVES UNIVERSITY Karen Weingart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weingart, 4215 W. Crestwood drive, McHenrv, is serving as a resident assistant in Wells hall, at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater for the 1975-76 school year. Miss Weingart, a junior majoring in business education, was a member of Phi Beta Lambda business society as a freshman and sophomore and served as Arey hall council treasurer during her sophomore year. I asked why not, and expected the old story of woman's ex­ travagance, but to my amazement he replied: 'While cigars are 25 cents apiece, a horse and buggy $4 an hour, and boots $14 a pair, it 's all I can do to support myself. ' Mr. Editor, to come down to the truth of things, I wonder if that isn't what is the matter with all of them." Perhaps Nell 's gentleman friend was only taking to heart Kipling's famous saying, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke." PAGE 11 - P LAIN DEALER-U I-. I»M\M>.i»rtrtr «i.».1*. • Study Abolition Of Personnal Business Tax The House Revenue com­ mittee will take up where the Local Government Tax Study commission was forced to leave off by beginning to study how the General Assembly should replace the corporate personal property tax that is scheduled to be abolished by 1979. The Local Government Tax S t u d y c o m m i s s i o n authorization and $50,000 ap­ propriations bills were vetoed by Governor Walker last month, but the hearing that commission member. Cal ,Skinner. Jr., (R-Crystal Lake) was organizing in Rockfofd's Winnebago county courthouse for 9:30 on Sept. 24 will be held anyway. The purpose of the legislative hearing will be the same; sponsorship will shift to the House Revenue committee on which Skinner and a number of other commission members serve. Representatives from commerce and industry are being invited to testify on two topics: (1) Implementation of the 1970 constitution's mandate to abolish the personal property tax on business by 1979 after the replacement thereof with some other tax or combination of taxes and (2) Administrative reform of the assessment and collection of the corporate personal property tax in Illinois. "In essence, we are asking businessmen in Illinois to name their own poison." remarked the former McHenry county tax collector. "The constitutional fathers and mothers have told us legislators that we must complete the job of abolishing the personal property tax that was begun in 1970 when Illinois residents voted overwhelming approval for abolition of the personal property tax on in­ dividuals. "Prior to complete abolition, however. the General Assembly must pass legislation that will result in the corporate community's paying the same amount of taxes. 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