The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 33

MM Baha'i Speaker Promotes Equality Jy VEBNA MURRAY The Journal Travelling 50 fo M.000 miles Pr year is child's play to Mrs Mildred Mottahedeh. who has done it for 30 years and lovn every minute of it. And she literally lives out of a suitcase most or the time. "I don't unpack, except to hang my dresses up." she said in an interview Thursday. Mrv Mottahedeh is principal speaker at the National Convention of the Baha'i World Faith being held at the Chateau Laurier this weekend.

Mrs. Mottahedeh, who "frankly admits" to being 58 years old, is propably one of the few people in North Am-erica bom into the Baha'i faith as was her husband. "Ours is the first religion that recognizes the equality of male and female," she says. "We also believe that every child must be and if it comes to a choice between a girl and a boy, we believe the girl should be educated. "Girls will be the mothers of the race, and if we have Ignorant furthers, we will have ignorant children." The Baha'i also believe that a world parliament is neces- CHOICE OF 15 BONE CHINA PATTERNS 4 in Paragon Bon China 2 in Royal Albert-Bont China 2 in Coalport Bont China 2 in Tuscan Bon China 3 in Aynskry Bon China 2 in Adderley Bon China Wiece woce betting-' 1M I patter patterns nn mm ill mi MRS.

MILDRED MOTTAHEDEH sary and Mrs. Mottahedeh works actively toward this end at the United Nations where she has been the official observer for the Baha'i World Community since 1947. She. admits a world parliament may be decades in coming, but says it is "evolving." Asked if the Baha'i ideals among them equality for one world religion, com munity of man were not Regular! Up to $17. i Mrs.

Mottahedeh pays all her travelling expenses herself. She is a technical and design expert in the field of home industries and as such has been consultant to governments in Europe, Asia-vnd North Africa. The Organization for European Economic Development, a branch of the Common Market, brought craftsm from Greece and Sardinia to Florence to attend a handcraft seminar where she taught them new techniques and adaptations of. old. DEVELOPS CRAFTS With her husband, she did a survey of craft development in Morocco to help the people improve their existing crafts and develop new ones.

Mrs. Mottahedeh fell )n love with East Africa and wanted to do something for I the people there, whom she f) I PQ described as "real people." The people there wanted education so they could be "citirens of the world," "she said, so Mrs. Mottahedeh founded two schools. Because there are more than 50 tribal dialects in Uganda. "Hie' schools-started at the kindergarten level so I it Jl I I I nf- it1-rf.

I 1 50 a 5-Piece Ploce Settjng VThesX are regularly tip to $17.50 a plape.setting and all are specially priced at $7.95 a place setting for this special introductory offe. All are open stock patterns, each place setting consists of bread and butter, salad and dinner plates with a cup and saucer, txtra pieces available at special prices. For Over 60 Years The China Hall of Ottawa" America's largest retail selection at lowest prices of Open Stock English China Dinnerware Naturally We Would Be Pleased to Open a Charge Account for You 267 BANK STREET 54 ELGIN STREET at A A Cenf drotlen 4quart) 233-4831 OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 9 P.M. They added one grade per year, and are now up to grade seven. From Ottawa, Mrs.

Mat-tahedeh will go to Wilmette, where the main North American Baha'i temple is located, then to Rome and New York and back to the Rocky Mountains, all by first weeks of -COLLECTS ART "Home base" for Mrs. Mottahedeh is irt a "small" 38-storey I apartment building in New York; in the summer and in a house ih Connecticut in the winter. When she is hot travelling, she enjoys cooking and sewing. She and her husband have a "small butjgaod" collection of- Chinese art dating from 2500 BC to the 12th At Smiths Falls Mrs. D.

F. Geddes and Miss Joey Noad are conveners of a tea and money shower to. if thr rhildren could learning- held on Thursday, May 12; to have a sewer outlook?" lish. from 2 jo 6 p.m. at For Over 60 Years "Tht China Hall of Ottawa" Open Friday Night Ml 9 p.m.

Special Introductory Offer! ENGLISH BONE CHINA DINNERWARE the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ketchum, Smiths Falls.

The event is being held to benefit the Smiths Falls Branch cf the Victorian Order of Nurses and to increase interest in the work of VON In that area. Miss Ann Burk is the VON nurse at Smiths Falls. I il I i -M-wr A -M- AUWTXW la I ST 1 II II 11 SALE ENDS SATURDAY I Cotton Bandeau I Dainty cotton bandeau styled with Specially I lace cups and Kodel fiberfill. Sizes Vti at I A32-36, B32-38, C34-38. White ff I only l.UU I Friday, April 29, 1966 i 1 an 7 SI NATIONAL HOSTESS Her Excellency Madame Georges P.

Vanier, wife of the Governor General, is national hostess for a series pf "make believe' teas being held by provincial divisions and branches of the Canadian Mer Health 1 Association during Mental Health Week, 1 to 7. Madame Vanier, will attend a membership invitation tea given by, national president Mr. Murray Rankin at the Ottawa branch headquarters, 157 MacLaren Street, on Tuesday from 3 to 5 p.m. PM'S WIFE HONORED AT LUNCHEON Mrs. Lucien Lamoureiuc wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, entertained at luncheon in Room 16, Parliament Buildings, on Thursday, in honor of Mrs.

Lester B. Pearson, wife of the Prime Minis ter. Mrs. Lamoureux is seen at left with Mrs. Pearson and Mrs.

W. Walton Butter worth, wife of the United States Ambassador, IJoumol Photo by Dominion Wldt) OCIAL and PERSONAL Her Excellency Madame Vanier, attended by Miss Sidney ShaKespeare, Lady in-Waiting, visited the Women's Guidance Cenfre (Ingleside) at, Brampton, onVThursday. A group pf officer cadets from the Royal Military College in Kingston visited the public rooms of Govern ment House on ThursdayN His Excellency the Governor General, accompanied by Her Excellency Madame Vanier, and attended by Miss Sidney Shakespeare, Lady in-Waiting, and Lieutenant Michael Price, RCN, Aide-de-Camp in-Waiting, opened the Exhibition "Art Treasures from Japan" at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, on Thursday. The Prime Minister and CLEARANCE SALE ENDS SATURDAY MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS Famous maker short sleeve shirts Reg. to 5.00 in finely wovenVsanforized cotton.

Sale 'Price Regular or button-down collars. ff Assorted colours. L. itUU II I '-FASHIONS SINCE 1867 JFyiN867 Mrs. Lester Pearson are attending the Lakeside Theatre Productions performance of "The Glass Menagerie" at Lakeside Gardens tonight.

Miss Mary Duff has returned to her home in Lunenberg, NS, after spending a week at the Chateau Laurier. Mrs. J. R. Fletcher and family, of Manchester, NH, taken" up residence in Ottawa.

Miss Grace Lemon has returned to her home in Calgary Alta, after spending six weeks as guest of her sister, Mrs. Norva Farley. Mrs. Dalton McCarthy entertained at the tea hour in honor of. her husband's aunt.

OLE Reg. to Mrs. Lester Albright, who is celebrating her 90th birthday today. Mrs. Frank Pranschke poured tea.

Miss Janice Chaput, who will be married on Saturday, was honored' at a miscellaneous shower given by Mrs. Mona Monette and Miss Catherine Kealey. Mrs. Harvey Noblitt and her daughter. Miss Shirley Noblitt, entertained at towel shower, honoring Miss Audrey Boyd, a bride-elect of Saturday, May 7.

Mrs. H. B. Parkes and Mrs. Dora Roy entertained at a party in honor of Miss Heather Walker, whose marriage to Mr.

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