Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 37, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 October 1981 — Page 5

Supermarket Shopper Public facilities are in short supply

By M ARTIN SLOAN E Many readers have responded to the recent column in which I reported the views of several supermarket executives concerning the lack of restrooms in their stores. A reader from West Palm Beach, Fla , complimented Publix Markets for their clean restrooms and then derided a competing chain, saying, "I don’t think they would know a restroom from a hole in the ground." SEVERAL READERS FROM California praised Hughes Markets for their restrooms. In commenting on the need for restrooms in supermarkets, Mrs. G.C. from Canoga Park, Calif., wrote: "Older people who have certain medical problems are always in need of such a facility and make it a practice to find out w hether a store has a restroom before shopping there." Her feelings were echoed by 60-year-old Barbara C. of Hermitage. Tenn. “I must often walk home during my shopping trip to use the bathroom and then return to the store to finish my shopping,” she wrote. "Even if I had to put a dime in the restroom door, to me it would be well worth it.” HERE ARE SOME OTHER comments: "I chuckled when I read the lame excuses of supermarket executives for not having restrooms. The most rediculous was the one who said that shoppers perferred that the space be used for things like larger deli sections. Most mothers would gladly give up a chance to buy a deli sandwich for a clean restroom when little Johnny cries, “Mommy, I have to go now!” - Frances, Johnstown, Pa. “Prior to my retirement as an employee of Wegmann’s Supermarkets in Rochester, N.Y., I was aware of the appreciation of our customers for the restroom in our store. When my wife and I moved to Florida, the restroom was a major consideration in selecting Albertson’s as ‘our’ supermarket.” -Basil G., Suwanee, Fla. “MY HUSBAND SHOWED ME your column because he knows that restrooms are a sore spot with me... 1 have been complaining about the lack of restrooms for 31 years, and it is high time that supermarkets woke up to this important need.’’-Mrs. D.L., Chicago. *** SMART SHOPPING TIP Mrs. Kenneth Ness, Litchfield. Minn., takes envelopes that she receives in the mail and cuts out the 3-by-5-inch sections that have her name and address printed on them. She uses them for requesting refunds that don’t require forms and for short notes to those with whom she trades refund forms by mail. She knows that her name and address can be read easily, and she saves the cost of having name and address labels printed. MRS. NESS AND OTHER READERS whose smart shopping tips appear in my column receive a copy of my refunding magazine, the National Supermarket Shopper. Write to me in care of the Banner-Graphic. *•* REFUND OF THE DAY Write to the following address to obtain the form required by this $1 refund offer: International Playtex Inc., Living Glove $1

French Chef has vocal fans

By CECILY BROWNSTONE Associated Press Food Editor One reason I have the New York Times delivered to my door at the crack of dawn every day in the week, including Sunday, is to read Russell Baker. He’s the man who contributes to the Times Op-Ed page and writes the “Sunday Observer” for the Times Sunday Magazine. Baker’s witty commentary on our society helps leaven a day. Take his recent Sunday Observer column, “No no smoking.” Baker writes: “I have nothing against people who don’t smoke. I stopped smoking myself for five years once and it didn’t do me any noticeable harm. If people want to sit around not smoking, it doesn’t offend me in the least. I certainly wouldn’t bully them and try to make them feel absolutely terrible about not taking up the habit.” The way Baker feels about nonsmokers is the way I feel about the disciples of Julia Child, television’s “The French Cher’ and cookbook author. Although the juliachild fans constantly tell me that French cooking is superior to American cooking, my specialty, I have nothing against them. I certainly wouldn’t insist on their watching a TV program called “The American Chef.” I don’t feel they should be forced to give up working their way through “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volumes One and Two” by Julia Child et al and “The French Chef Cookbook,” a collection of recipes Julia demonstrated on television. I never remonstrate when they serve me juliachild dishes. I have cooked some myself. If the juliachild people want to sit around talking about how the only edible French bread in the United States is that made from Julia’s recipe, it doesn’t offend me in the least. I never try to make them feel miserable because to bake Julia's French bread they had to run

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out and find the necessary equipment Vi-inch thick asbestos cement and a solid 10pound rock. Nor do I look at them pityingly because the recipe is 20 pages long. And I wouldn’t think of reminding them that in her latest book, “From Julia Child’s Kitchen,” Julia herself extols the virtues of some American dishes. Baker says, “As a smoker I feel no sense of moral superiority whatever. I don’t even feel self-righteous about smoking. Not even when I am in a crowded room with 15 or 20 nonsmokers. After all, I might want to give up smoking again one of these days, and if I do I don’t want smokers looking down their noses at me. “Being of this turn of mind, I am baffled by the growing intolerance among so many people who don’t smoke. Not long ago, I was severely put down by a New York cab driver for lighting up in his machine. It was puzzling. He was off ided by my smoking, yet I wasn’t offended by his not smoking.” As a long-time American food history buff, even the Bicentennial Bandwagon doesn’t make me feel self-righteous. I don’t ordinarily boast about having a large collection of culinary Americana cookbooks, utensils and incunabula. Not even when I am in a room with 15 or 20 juliachild people all talking about their cocottes and charlotte molds. After all, I might want to buy a batterie de cuisine myself one of these days and try some more juliachild recipes and I don’t want the nonjuliachild cooks looking down their noses at me. Being of this turn of mind, I am baffled by the growing intolerance among the juliachild followers. Not long ago I was severely put down by some of them because I had never given Julia’s recipe for Homard

Thermidor (Lobster Gratineed in its Shell) a trial run. They were offended because I meekly blamed my dereliction on the fact that lobster costs over $3.00 a pound. Yet I wasn’t in the least offended when I discovered they had never tasted California’s razor clams, made New England’s Indian Pudding or New York’s Concord Grape Pie. Or that they had never heard of the first cookbook of American authorship published in the United States: “American Cookery” by Amelia Simmons, whose nom de plume was “An American Orphan.” Baker’s last words: “Smokers have historically been tolerant of their nonsmoking compatriots. Too tolerant perhaps. It may be time for us to ... start accusing the nonsmokers of bigotry. If we put on enough heat, we can give them such guilty consciences that they will never again be able to refuse to light up after dinner without explaining that some of their best friends are smokers.” My last cue: We cooks who specialize in America dishes have been historically tolerant of those of our compatriots who are devoted to French cuisine. It may be time for us to accuse them of partisanship. If we put on enough heat we can give them such guilty consciences that they will never again serve Julia’s Gigot a la Moutarde (Herbal Mustard Coating for Roast Lamb) or Le Glorieux (A Very Rich, Very Light Chocolate Cake) without explaining that some of their best friends gobble up Big Macs and Oreos. I wouldn’t think of trying to convert juliachild cooks to such American dishes as marshmal-low-sauerkraut salad or orange jello studded with elbow macaroni. If they would just keep quiet about French cooking and ask me to their juliachild dinners oftener, I could find it in my heart to be more tolerant than ever.

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Colors send career messages

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Do you want to move ahead or be popular? Look at what your superiors wear and take a lesson from them, advises a Purdue University clothing specialist. Lois Gotwals says certain colors are perceived as red flags and others are rather universally accepted. “Colors send out messages,” she says. “If you wear a lot of bright colors, an all bright dress, people assume you’re fun to be with, perhaps a good conversationalist.” But she Warns that colors could give wrong messages, too. In general, Mrs. Gotwals says light colors are perceived as more cheerful, active and feminine, and darker hues are considered more businesslike. Those judgments are often carried over as perceptions of character, she says. “People assume you’re more professional, and sometimes assume more intelligent,” she says. “Most shades of blue are generally acceptable by most groups, particularly some

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medium to dark blues. Medium to slightly dark colors are acceptable by everybody,” she says, adding that polls she has conducted while speaking to groups around the state indicate that darker hues don’t generally arouse violent or controversial reactions. “On the job front if you want to play it safe, I’d go with either the neutrals or the dark colors. People associate those with professional or business life. Those colors are never associated with homemaking,” she said. As far as fashion trends, she says most professional women now wear skirted suits or coordinated jackets and skirts. She says you can tell a lot about the psychology of clothes from watching others. “Mainly the message is interpreting the reaction that you gain from other people,” she says. “Each person needs to test it out with his own clothing and do their own research.” If you want to get ahead, Mrs. Gotwals advises “Study what people in that kind of position are wearing. Don’t duplicate it but study it and learn from it.”

In many cases, perceptions of color and fabric depend on a peer group. She cites polyester pantsuits as an example. “For many retired people, particularly women, the kind of status uniform is the polyester pantsuit, and among their group of peers that’s fine. But if a young woman is trying to break into a job or profession and appear in something that’s definitely a polyester pantsuit, not woven to look like wool, she’ll probably be labelled as something out of date and not too professional,” says Mrs. Gotwalls, adding that the reaction to the pantsuit depends on kind of job a person is seeking. She says the popular fabric denim also evokes different reactions. “Again, it makes a difference on what kind of job or group that you’re with. A young fellow trying to break into the job market in denim jeans and jacket and tie in some professions wouldn’t have any problem but it probably wouldn’t get him very far in the law or banking industry.”

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October 19,1981, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

DAR recollects Yorktown

The Washburn chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) have sponsored projects all year' in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the victory at Yorktown, Oct. 19,1781. On Oct. 6, Mrs. William J. (Florence) Boatright, chairman of the Yorktown project, witnessed Mayor Jane Harlan signing a proclamation recognizing Oct. 19, 1981 as the 200th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown

Anniversary Davidsons hallow 65th

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davidson, Coatesville, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 22. Mrs. Davidson is the former Mable Artie Ruark of Fillmore. There will be no open house because of Mr Davidson’s poor health. THE DAVIDSONS were married on Oct. 22, 1916 and have resided in Coatesville sin-

Craft Day to be held

“Crafts by the Bushel” is the theme of this year’s craft day sponsored by the Montgomery County Extension Homemakers to be held in the 4-H Building in Crawfordsville Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 10a.m. to6p.m. CRAFTS WILL BE demonstrated and for sale by 34 Extension Homemaker Clubs. A new feature of this year’s Craft Day will be the public voting for the club and runnerup who have the best display and the club and runner-up who best shows the most creativity in their craft. Commercial exhibits will include Apple Head Dolls; Bread

Other chapters of the DAR, such as the Major Abraham Owen chapter, also have been active this year. Members will be participating in the Apple Butter Festival. Members will also be sending clothing to DAR-sponsored schools this month and the donations for the Veteran's Christmas box will be collected by November The chapter also sent three members to the State Conference at the Atkinson Hotel in Indianapolis held Oct. 5-7.

ce their marriage. The couple are retired school teachers, Mr Davidson taught for 44 years and wrote a column for the Ban ner several years ago and his wife taught for 41 years. Both are members of the Coatesville Methodist Church Their only daughter, Lois Ann Johnson, lives in Plainfield. The Davidsons also have three grandchildren.

Dough Art demonstration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; soft sculpture from 2 to 6 p.m.; herbs spices and naturally dried materials; candy-making and candycoating demonstration at 10:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 4 p.m. and4:4s p.m. LUNCH WILL BE served by the homemakers from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sandwiches, homemade pies, coffee and soft drinks are on the menu. Pies and drinks will be available from 3 to 6 p.m. The event is open to the public.

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