The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

THE MORNING HERALD THE EVENING STANDARD The Chinese Know How To Shape MaleClay By AILEEN SNODDY NEW YORK (NEA) Irene Kuo is a frank woman. Recently in the quiet sanctum of her new Chinese restaurant she admitted the red, made in Hong Kong dress she wore was 12 years old. It wasn't necessary, since her current wardrobe reportedly includes at least 1,400 dresses. These are ordered in a gamut of fabrics from Hong Kong--not less than a dozen at a time. To adorn them she occasionally wears pieces from a collection of jade jewelry which once belonged to the last dowager empress of the Manchu dynasty.

On this particular sunny day she wore the dress as a good luck gesture for Mike Todd, and the cast of "And I Met a Man," opening in Lincoln Center. Stitched on the dress were ancient Chinese symbols for luck, prosperity, wealth and good health. Unfortunately for Todd and the cast, the dress did little to bring them luck (the play flopped). But all enjoyed a fine Chinese dinner at The Gingko Tree. Mme.

Kuo, it seems, gets better vibrations from her good luck dress than others. She already runs the 11- year-old Lichee Tree, a highly regarded restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village. Why, at this stage in her life, would she throw herself into the 18- to 20-hour day required in opening a second restaurant? This she answers simply, "It is like having another child. Do it now or never." She picked the area for The Gingko Tree because it was near Lincoln Center. As a matinee addict (because of her work schedule), Mme.

Kuo spotted a need for good restaurants nearby when she went to shows. Her free time is limited and she makes the most of it by working on a new cookbook, or reading and listening to records in the sanctuary of her penthouse apartment. During the off-season she takes weekends at a summer cabin on a lake for quiet. Now that the "infant" restaurant is weaned much of her time goes to her cookbook. It will feature the Chinese view of life and traditions and recipes that don't require a shopping list two miles long.

"I am a good cook now," she says with a smile and admits that this was not alway the case. She was married to a former Chinese general who was assigned to Washington, D.C., after World War II arid she confesses, "I had to admit I didn't know what I was doing, especially the day when the fire engines pulled up to the apartment house because my rice was burning." Her two sons "tasted some unusual dishes" until she learned to cook. In Washington, and later in Italy, while Gen. Kuo was still in government service, she was hostess to hundreds. It was good training for the restaurant business.

After years, though, she still must overcome the male attitude toward a woman boss. "I feel deeply about a woman's role because of the Salad Ingredients In Shampoo Make You A Tasty Dish' UNJONTOWN, TUESDAY, JUNE I IRENE KUO teaching of Confucius and the Chinese attitude a women," she explains. "If women have no liberty, it is tragic. "In hiring I beliefe the salary should cover the job and not be decided on whether it is for a man or a woman. A man applied recently for a job in the coat room here and was appalled when I offered him the same salary that a woman was getting.

He wanted more money than the woman but I didn't know if he could handle the work or not." She calls her approach the old velvet glove technique. "In Chinese thought, woman is the water and man the clay. If a woman can't control and direct one man she can't be part of liberation. Woman's position traditionally in the Orient is her influence behind a man and her children. If you can influence one man, you can influence others." (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) Meet Called Wednesday Members of the Ladies Auxiliary of Ft.

Mason American Legion Post, 423, a will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the post home. Election of officers is scheduled. Serving on the June committee are Mary Slavcosky, Ann a Veronica Manor, Ilean Welch, Bessie Miller and Edith Voithofer. BPW'Meet New Salem Business and Professional Women's Club held its regular monthly meeting in the form of a covered dish dinner at the New Salem Presbyterian Church.

Civic participation committee was in charge of the program. Edith Coughenour, chairman, introduced the speaker, Vivian Lucy, who spoke on Flower Arranging. Modiste McGill club president. New officers will be installed at the next meeting, June 23. STAINS The longer stains and grime are allowed to stay in durable press materials, the harder they are to get out.

Garments made from such materials should always be washed when only lightly soiled. By HELEN HENNESSV NEA Women's Editor NEW YORK (NEA) -There are name 1 droppers and place droppers. But Jacques Lawlor is a food dropper. His conversation is literally laced with such items as- mayonnaise, cucumbers, cider vinegar, eggs, baking soda, almond extract and lemon juice. He's neither a French chef nor a gourmand.

He is a hairdresser, and, as he likes to call himself, a ladies' barber. He doesn't whip up tasty dishes with the ingredients he loves to talk about. He uses them as hair treatments. And wKen he gets your hair back into what he "considers good condition, the "tasty dish" may well be you. "Nearly everything we use in the can be eaten," he said.

Even his shampoo is Service In Erie Scotch hair set tape Is used by stylist Jacques Lawlor to create i soft, finger-waved coif that complements the flowing, fluid lines of the 'SOs-inspired dress. Lawlor feels this round, cherub cut gives the total look for any girl's midi-minded mood. The soft, clinging crepe dress (right) with its forest green and eggshell-white pattern is an actual copy of one worn during the '30s. It is an original design from Kamali, a New York boutique. protein shampoo that smells like raspberries.

And it's sold in health stores. "If we had room for a refrigerator," Lawlor said, "we would keep one here." The shop, located in a basement on New York's upper East side, is furnished more like a charming apartment, than a beauty salon except for the small room where the actual work is done. Lawlor trained and worked for several years under Vidal Bassoon. He respects the techniques he learned but has ideas of his own on how a woman's hair should be cut and set. "I prefer a lack of rigidity," he said.

"A girl should look like a girl and not like a creation. The haircut should be part of the woman, not as accessory. But the extensive training is necessary. You discipline before you can free yourself. MRS.

LAWRENCE NEWCOMER United in marriage in St. 'Stanislaus Church in Erie were Mary Jo Ann Kalista, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund John Kalista of Erie and Lawrence Newcomer, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Eugene Newcomer of Jumonville Rd. Maid of honor was Judy Deeter; matron of honor was a a Jaroszewski, sister of the bride. Mrs. Susan M. Kidd, another sister of the bride, was bridesmaid.

Ronald Eugene Newcomer, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Ushers were David Jaroszewski, brother in- law of the bride, and Wayne R. Kidd, brother-in-law of the bride. The reception was held at the Polish Sharpshooters Club in Erie. Following their honeymoon in Canada the couple will reside at 63 E.

Fayette Uniontown. The bride is a 1964 graduate of East High School and was formerly employed by Dr. Raymond M. Blasco and Hammermill Paper Co. Her husband is a 1962 graduate of Strong Vincent High School and a employed by General Electric.

He is now manager of the Torch House Restaurant in Unionlown. Chuckwagon SLICED BACON Reg. 79c Ib 45c FOOD GARDEN CENTER Rt. 40 W. of Unionlown REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER SCHOOL Sat.

June 12-131 Hours 1 to 6 at the KATY LYON DANCE STUDIO S. Bceson Avc. Professional Training for the Serious Student LOW, LOW PRICES PIUS TOP VALUE STAMPS 51 NORTH FAYETTE PLAZA BUTTER 69c "It takes about three years to train a talented person to feel free and not tied up by techniques. When I was in training I felt I would be a vegetable if I were on my own. But my wife helped me to get over that." Lawlor cuts hair so that you don't have to come back to him for six weeks.

When cut too often, he believes, hair looks too manicured. "We never use any setting lotion except a solution of 10 parts water and one part almond lotion," Jacques said. "And we prefer hair setting tape to clips. The tape eliminates that rigid, plastic look." Lawlor thinks that too many beauty salons turn out everyone with look alike hairdos'. "I like both a soft look and a hard look," he said.

"It depends on the wife had a chic, hard look until recently and looked great. But now we have a baby and she wants to look pretty." At the shop every client is cause for a class in hair cutting and hand drying. Hair problems are discussed with the customer so she knows how involved the job really is and everyone gets into the act. "With natural products we can keep the hair in good condition," Jacques maintained. "Mayonnaise is a pro- lein treatment.

It has egg in it. After applying it, we use hoi towels." Apple cider vinegar is used as a rinse after washing with a protein shampoo. Lawlor has his own dandruff treatment and he swears it works. He crunches 30 aspirins into protein shampoo, washes the hair, rinses under strong pressure and brushes with a plastic brush. He claims that oily hair is a much bigger problem here than it is in Europe.

And he goes back to the food store to combat the problem. Two ounces his shampoo spiked with a healthy tablespoon of baking soda will keep your hair clean for days, he says. He uses lemon juice to remove yellow from gray hair. Egg whites and cucumbers were thrown in as bonus beauty tips. They have nothing to do with hair.

Lawlor claims that cucumbers help remove lines under the eyes. For firming the face and tightening pores, he suggests dampening the face with warm water and dabbing egg while all over. When the drawing sensation becomes uncomfortable, splash off the egg while without using a face cloth. It all sounds as though we've come full circle to when grandma was a girl. But if it works, all but the cutting and hand drying which is Lawlor's method of setting hair can be handled at home for a few cents.

Just be sure the family doess't whip up a salad with your hair treatments. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) GAS AIR CONDITIONING It keeps out summer heat, and pollen, and dust, and noises, and lots of other aggravations. Call the gas company. Now. YOU'VE GOT GAS ON YOUR SIDE,.