Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • Page 55

KIN0SPQRT TIMES NEWS HOME AND FAMILY KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE, 37660, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1907 A Facial Too 'I hope my friends A new look after the comb-out Take a little off the sides and straighten the top He was cute when he walked in the shop a typical 17- year-old with long, unruly iiair. But when he walked out he was handsome, sporting a new European hair style. Ronnie Kabool a a thought styling shops were for women, and he din't believe the advertisement saying: "Men's hair styling, hair coloring, hair straightening, skin care and face Efts." HE DIDN'T believe it either when he found out he couldn't just walk into Homer Alien's Shop on Henry and say "take a little off the sides." AHen works by appointment only. So Tlo.nnie, who had never had a facial, manicure, straightening job, style, or corrective cut, got himself an appointment for the works. "I DON'T know what I'm in for," he said, "but whatever it is, I've probably been through worse." Perhaps; but it must have been painful for him to sit and watch long strands of hair on his shoulders, after carefully nurturing it through more than a month's growth.

Oh well, Allen said it had to go, and he's been in barbering for 21 years and styling for three. RONNIE WAS a litOe embarrassed about the facial and manicure, but Allen assured him "everybody does this," so he just settled back to watch and enjoy himself. After he watched his hair fall little by little, he saw the straightening lotion "looks like vanilla icing" being applied, then a. face mask, "I'm cracking up," and then, most embarrassing of al), a hair net covering his head while he sat under the dryer. "I ONLY hope my friends forget this by the time school starts again." Almost finished, except for the long, agonizing "comb-out." Allen combed and brushed and sprayed, and Ronnie looked better with every flick of the wist.

Finally, Allen asked, "How do you like it? It's finished." And Ronnie looked and looked at himself and said "Gosh," Which means he like it very much. "MY PARENTS (Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kabool, 1622 E. Center St.) wiH love it.

It's so short!" "Well," Allen said, "you really should have had it cut about three more inches, Ronnie." Ronnie looked a skeptically, looked back in the mirror, and asked slowly, "You mean like all over?" IT'S BUT 'Such A Good Feeling When Challenges Are Conquered' By ANNA GILREATH Times-News Women's Writer At 3 a.m. -of any 1 everything slumbers except.the crickets and frogs outside her window, Mrs. Claire Heermans be found in front of her typewriter. The keys i 1 a steadily, and filled sheets mount on the table. When her work is finished, and only then, will Mrs.

Heermans carefully replace the cover on her machine and join the world of the sleeping. SHE'S 70 years old and beginning to feel it. She can't run here and there carrying out various missions as she once did, but she can still get- there. Slowly and carefully, her work is finished. Mrs.

Heermans was recent- elected' president of Sullivan County Chapter of u'l a Association of America for the ninth year in a row, and for the ninth straight year she's accepted the that's getting to be too much for her. SHE DID IT, because "it's a challenge; and I'm a sucker for challenges. You have such a good feeling when you've conquered them." Staying; hours of the up reports', doing research on muscular dystrophy to be used in fund drives, Mrs. Heermans is facing another challenge -one which will be more difficult to conquer. SHE HAS TO work by artificial light, a sunlight "blinds" her.

Another disease dominates her life in Mrs. Heermans docs her work in early morning hours. a more personal way than her work with MD. Mrs. a has glaucoma, a disease of the eyes which causes progressive loss of vision.

Perhaps that's why she uses so much of the energy she still has on the fight against a disease with no known somewhere, someone else may, be still up at 3 a.m., searching for an answer to glaucoma, A FEW YEARS ago, Mrs. Heermans was active in almost every service club in town. She attended a meeting of some such group every night, "and sometimes two or three in one evening." "But I've given up everything now except my work with MD, Women of the Moose, and the Charles DeWitt Byrd Post 3382, VFW Auxiliary. "I WOULDN'T belong to a bridge club or any other kind of social club. My time is too valuable.

I plan to give of myself as long as I have something to contribute." So she continues to accept the work that other, younger people leave to her. The challenge now is to keep going. Sometimes she'd like to sit down and just sit there, never to move again. "BUT NOBODY who can move has a right to sit still for very long. There are so many people who can't, who need the assistance we able- bodied people can give." At 3 a.m.

this morning. Mrs. Claire Heermans sat in her study at 140 Archdale Dr. She was tired, her back hurt, and she wanted to go to bed. But there were reports to send out, appeals lor help to be typed and mailed, find somebody had to do U.

Mrs. Heermans had a herself "Gcnrgo" of "let Gcorgfi do It." MRS. STANLEY BURGIN MRS. J. STONE-KAMINSKI MRS.

DANNY GEYER still loves Scotland Kingsport's the best misses tea shops MRS. CHARLES KEILY people warm, polite FOREIGN-BORN RESIDENTS COMPARE Their Native Land Versus Kingsport By ANNA GILREATH Times-News Women's Writer "I'd go back for a visit, but have to have my return ticket with me before I left here." That's the way Mrs. Charles Keily feels about her new country, and she says it with a pure Alabama accent. Mrs. Keily, wife of an American engineer, came to this country from Germany 13 years ago, settling first in Alabama.

She's moved several times since throughout the South, and now lives in Colonial Acres. NOW A NATURALIZED citizen, Mrs. Keily praised her new home recently in a "gathering of the nations," when she and three other foreign- born Kingsport area residents compared the old with the new, their native land to the United Stales and Kingsport. There was Mrs. Joseph Stone Kaminski, 2128 Ft.

Henry an intensely patriotic citizen, who came to the United States from Poland more than 50 years ago, and says "There's no better country than America." And Mrs. Danny Geyer, a naturalized citizen who came here from Japan ten years ago, and whose only complain Is "the telephone system. Something's always messed up." She and her husband, station manager for Southern Airlines, live In Indian Springs. THE ONLY MEMBER of the pnnel not citizen was Mrs. Stanley Burgln, 317 Woodcrest whose husband Is a business consultant to physicians and dentists.

She came licrg from Scotland about ten years ago, and still misses "A little place to go for a nice tea with your friends." A common observation by foreign-born people living in the United States has been the lack of interest in cutlure. It's been said American women are more interested in a new washing machine than the threatre or good music. Not so, Mrs. Keily said. "It might have been lacking in former years, but it's different now.

Education is being stressed more, and people have more leisure time with which to enjoy music and literature." "AMERICA IS SUCH a young country," Mrs. Geyer said. "There's no comparison between the culture here and in the Tokyo, for instance. But Tokyo is the largest city in the world, and an old city. They've had more time to advance." "Kingsport's a boom town now," Mrs.

Burgin says. "But, for such a cosmopolitan place, it's still hard to mix. There's nothing here to encourage getting to know everybody, and you won't meet any of your neighbors unless you belong to a lot of clubs." "ON THE OTHER hand, those people you meet are very friendly," Mrs. Keily said. "I've found everyone in the South to be very warm and polite." At fault in the lack of communication between neighbors in the United Stales is the oar, the ladies said.

Here, "you liop In your oar and run downtown, or to Ihc supermarket, or to the pool. Nobody moves leisurely." "In Japan," Mrs. Geyer said, "anywhere you go there's a little tea shop with music. If you're downtown and want to rest a minute or talk to a friend you've run into, you can go in any of these shops. That's what I miss." From tea shops to television was a short hop for the ladies, and they proved their Americanism by complaining about commercials.

"THERE IS A government-owned station in Japan," Mrs. Geyer said, "which has commercials only at the beginning and end of the show, with no interruptions during the program. It's much better." "That the way it is with the BBC," Mrs. Burgin said. "There are no commercials, and the standards of the programs are much higher." Mrs.

Geyer said many US-produced shows are presented in Japan, with Japanese dubbed in. "It was strange to see Matt Dillon talking in Japanese," she laughed. WOULD THEY LIKE to return to their native lands? "No!" Mrs. Stone said. "This is my home, I would not leave it.

I can travel anywhere I wish here without a passport. I can buy anything I want. Why should I leave?" "I go home sometimes to see my family," Mrs. Geyer said. "But I'm a United States citizen now, and I always return." "My children arc Americans," Mrs.

Kelly said. "They don't even speak Gcrronn," "I still love Scotland," Mrs, Burgin saW. "I haven't decided yet whether or not to naturalized. Scotland is really my home.".