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SECTION 2 Home and Family Education .23,24 Boms and Family 21, 22 Television SS 2 THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1965 foe mmm Assignment America Fashion Shoiv Nets $3,400 For Auxiliary Romans Broke Cake Over Head Of Bride ON aW' I', I tives "when a bride was captured by force, which was fairly common from old Roman times right up through Rudolf Valen tino. Cresskill A luncheon and fashion show here yesterday at Tammy Brook Country Club netted $3,400 for the Saddle River Branch of Valley Hospital it was announced this morning by Mrs. Brice A. Eldridge, chairman. Serving under Mrs.

Eldridge were Mrs. Robert E. Kuhn, cochairman; Mrs. Timothy M. Tamblyn, treasurer; Mrs.

Herbert W. Johnson and Mrs. George E. Richardson, publicity; Mrs. Charles E.

Burton and Mrs. Duncan H. Cameron, tickets; Mrs. Joseph H. Cullinan and Mrs.

Laurence B. Free-burn, raffle; Mrs. Carmine J. Parisi and Mrs. Edward S.

Jacobson, door prizes; Mrs. Douglas S. WidnaU, program; Mrs. Hensel B. Millican Jr.

and Mrs. James D. Patton. decorating; Mrs. Ralph M.

Bogertman, fashions; and Mrs. Joseph A. Vanore, music. Models were Mrs. Knox Armstrong, Mrs.

Edward A. Black, Mrs. Joseph B. Boyle, Mrs. Kermit Kapner, Mrs.

Peter M. Kenyon, Mrs. Walter J. Minton, Mrs. Howard J.

MuUin, Mrs. Walter F. Powers, Mrs. Edward R. Rowley, Mrs.

Fred J. Schineller. Mrs. Lucien Sellet, Mrs. Joseph M.

Turino, Mrs. Ernest R. Zellweger, and Miss Patricia Storms. Child models were Barbara and James Bishop, Paige Kenyon, and James Patton. By PHYLLIS BATTELLE New York There are only three more shopping days till June.

This may give pause to thousands of young men who are due to stop shopping (girl-wise) forever, come next month. For June, as every Ogden Nash fan realizes, is the time when. "Ladies grow loony, and gentlemen loonier; "This year's June Is next year's junior." Of the 15.5 million single males and 12 million single females in the U. a goodly number will be bound as they say, appropriately within the next 34 days. In tribute to the month of weddings and to distract the distracted brides and grooms from the business at hand (the business-at-hand being the digestion of their fingernails), here are some Items of interest about the history of wedding traditions: 1.

The wedding cake. For cen 6. Throwing rice at the bride. The Hindus, not the Romans, of course, started this tradition. The bride would throw three handfuls of rice at the groom, and rice-versa.

Object: fertility. Today, the guests throw rice at the bride and groom, and often it is instant rice. Everything moves faster these days. A new book, titled "First Aid for the Happy has recently been published by marriage counselor Dr. Rebecca Liswood.

It is written for people who are about to be married, or who are so recently married that they don't realize how miserable they can become should familiarity breed contempt, not to mention children. In her opening chapter. Dr. Liswood discusses the prepara tions for marriage. She writes that teen-age marriages are a uxHC -gsn rr4 Vl'r-fef turies, the cake has been considered a delicacy to enhance the marriage chances of the spinster guests, who are supposed to sleep on hunks of same thus assuring themselves of an early mate and a sticky bed.

ROMAN INTENTION This ritual actually was invented by the Romans. When they started it, they insisted that the cake be broken over the bride's head thus assuring her an early shampoo, and great 2. Bride over the threshhold. It was a bad omen, thought the Romans, for a bride to trip during her wedding day. It was a good omen for her to step great mistake.

No matter how advanced they are for their years, teen-agers cannot possibly be prepared, emotionally or financially, to take on the problems of adult living. Among other tips: never live with in-laws after marriage. Wait to marry until the groom, or the bride and groom together, earn enough money to maintain a home and family. And always make that most important economic decision whether the wife will work before the vows are taken. Be tolerant, thoughtful, kind and understanding, not only of Tammy Brook Country Club before modeling In the fastiion show of Saddle River Branch, Valley Hospital Auxiliary, given by B.

Altman and Company. (Staff photograph.) VALLEY LOOK Mrs. Howard J. Mullin, Barbara Bishop, Mrs. Peter Kenyon, her daughter Paige, and Mrs.

Knox Armstrong posed on the edge of the golf course yesterday at I r4 I 71 i ,4 '-v'- i spouse but of friends and in English Singer Jubilant Over Success laws. And if you are all these things, you don't need a final bit of advice: Be emotionally mature! (Distributed by King Fettum Syndicate) What she likes about French Paris (WXS Pctula Clark, Petula's parents were of an 'fabulous offers to sing in the into her new home with the left foot. Because women are awkward and incapable especially in orange blossoms and togas, grooms were required to carry their wives over the doormat and drop them, port side first, where they belonged. 3. The bridal costume.

If a bride is married in white, she's chosen aright. If blue, her groom is true. Pearl, she'll live in a whirl. But beware pink, her husbands: the 31-year-old Lnqlish blonde! older generation that opposed Lnited States. Chapter Heads To Be Guests 1.

They make a woman feci who has been building a sue-i the mixing of nationalities, ccssful career as a Popular; wh teenager, my singer in France for the past cnantafl mo hi like a woman. "English hus Despite her international outlook on life, she wonders if she and her family would do right to leave Paris and make a new home across the Atlantic. i "I wish that some Americans would write to me and give me Oradell Mrs. Isadore Roth-17 years, was more ml tn man of this borough and Alrvithan anybody to learn that her Antih. nrtf bands are silent.

and prefer to read the newspaper. Frenchmen talk and take an interest in their women. They know all about couture, coiffure, make Jack Waxman of Teaneck, neck, co- record of "Downtown had i chairmen of Tuesday's honor-1 sold than one-million all Frenchmen were immoral. roll luncheon of Bergen Region in America, and her O. R.

T. (Oreanization for Re new one. I Know A Place up, cooking, everytning. My husband and I live truly one for the other." CHAIRMEN Mrs. Brice A.

Eldridge, left, and Mrs. Robert E. Kuhn were cochalrmen of yesterday's benefit luncheon for Valley Hospital. (Staff photograph.) their advice, she tola me. "They could address their letters to me in care of the Olympia Theatre in Paris." Petula Clark is all in favor of young people abroad.

She also likes the idea of nations getting all mixed together habilitation Through Training), announced today they will entertain the chapter chairmen at a luncheon June 4 at Mrs. Wax-man's home. Tuesday's luncheon honored 2. A French husband protects wife. "A Britisher feels that there are enough laws to protect women.

A is well on its way to the same goal. "I didn't even know it had crossed the Atlantic," she confided in her Paris dressing room at the Olympia Theatre. "To me, this is just one more and it was years before I got over the resulting complex against them." Today Petula Clark is married to a Frenchman, Claude Wolf, and they have two darling daughters, Barbara, 3, and Catherine, 18 months. "I have centered my career in France because my husband spirits will sink. Yellow she's ashamed of her fellow.

And red she'd better be dead. 4. Happy is the bride the Sun shines on. This is the simple legend. Behind it is another old Roman wive's tale: the Sun's rays are supposed to produce many children.

(July marriages are more prolific than most.) 5. The best man. Roman custom made it necessary to have an extra man, beside the groom, to fight off angry rela Frenchman takes care of it Pascack Historical Group To Conduct Tour Of Homes all O. R. T.

members who had raised $25 or given its equiva- My husband takes my try marry the boys of another, i i-j. i proof that we moderns are be- arm, leans me safely through lent in time to the work of i ing forced to become complete- "We grow up with such wrong ideas about the pople she said. "But crowds, finds taxis, is- always on my side, and has even had O. R. T.

in assisting displaced ly international whether we like works here," I am receiving dozens of in other countries," she com- persons around the world. it or not. i now has been restored and decorated by its current owners. three fights over me Neighbors of the Dorfmans, 3. Although he fights for his The Pascack Historical Society will conduct an Early American Home tour through five homes, a church, and a museum Saturday from 1 to 5 P.

M. Tour guide maps, programs. wife, he doesn't fight seriously Mr. and Mrs. Dallas A.

Taylor Jr. of 349 West Saddle River with her. "We couldn have a Ruth McDevitt Loves Success fight. As soon as my voice Road, also will open their home plained. "It is necessary that we break down these prejudices through direct experience." As example, she pointed to the fact that she.

as an English girl, was supposed to be prudish whereas Claude Wolf, the Frenchman she finally married, was supposed to be wolfish. "I fell In love with Claude which is an early sandstone house covered over with stucco. rises, he laughs, and everything becomes a joke. He always has a smile, a charming sense of Prior to 1795, the house was humor, and a kiss on his lips." ow ned by Albert A. Terhuneone The French husband is in dependent.

"I had an English boy friend who was always at and tickets will be available at the first stop on the tour, the society museum, 19 Ridge Avenue, Park Ridge, and at the third stop Upper Saddle River Reformed Church. The first home that the tourists will visit is the Spring Valley, N. Y. residence of Leland R. Meyer of 920 South Main Street.

The original part of the immediately, but it was three months before he even tried to hold my hand." she recalled. I had to use every feminine trick to get him to kiss me." By JEAN BENNETT (Staff Writer) The fautless timing with which Ruth McDevitt delivers every line on stage, in films, or on television screen, and the expertness with which her every gesture Is turned, is only part of the ability she has used for planning her entire life. Backstage at the Playhouse on the Mall, where she is currently enjoying another triumph in "Absence of a the jolly, unaffected comedienne was frank to admit that she is aware of her success and that she loves "Although I was 40 when I started out to get work in the theater, I had planned it very carefully from the time I was seven," she said. "My mother took me to a play and from then on I was hooked. Of course, there was school, When he finally said.

"Je of the early settlers in the area. Mr. and Mrs. Donald II. Ladd of 595 Chestnut Ridge Road.

Woodcliff Lake, are stop No. 6 on the tour. Their home was built in 1872 by Peter R. Worten-dyke to replace an older house. The smoke house in the rear is original and dates from the ear.

lier structure. Last stop is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Farrell of 156 Ell Road, Hillsdale. Erected about 1767 and remodeled in the middle of the 19th Century, the house is being restored by the t'aime, Petula," he also de Dutch homestead was built in 1752 as a tenant house.

It re manded her hand in marrige. There were two weddings: one mained unchanged until 1889 my feet, always doing whatever I wanted. That's not manly. Claude protects me, but he's the boss, and I jump when he asks for anything. I don't know exactly why I do, because he always speaks gently." 5.

He spoils the children, but he does it in such a way that it doesn't spoil them. "We English are firm with our children. The Frenchman cannot give them enough love and physical coddling. But the children jump to obey papa. They know who's boss, and they love having such a nice boss.

in rrancc on May 8, 1961, and the other in England the next when it was enlarged. TERIIUNE HOME day. After a -visit to the Reformed "I have heard that American men make the best husbands in the world," remarked the blonde singing star. "Well, they Church, tour goers will stop at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Dorfman of 361 West Saddle River Road, Upper Saddle Farrells and is furnished with antiques. Tourists are requested to wear will have to go mighty far to River. The frame farmhouse I low-heeled shoes. beat the French husband but before I married I did go to the American Academy in New York." Born In Michigan, raised In Ohio. Miss McDevitt has lived as a married woman and clubwoman principally in Florida, and as a widow and actress principally in New York City.

She enjoys living in California when making pictures but is always glad to get back to New York where she appreciates the concentration of her interests and the comparative ease with which she can get from one to the other. Meeting Miss McDevitt for the interview was like bumping into an old friend. She is warm, gracious, and her ability to put a fan at ease is one of her qualities that have made her president of the St. Petersburg Woman's Club for a number of terms and, as such, now a life member. started my after-40 life writing character sketches patterned more or less after Ruth Draper.

I did some television work and it seems, a theatrical career fell into my lap," she said. "My life-long dream had come true." "I seemed to have something, a necessary quality I cannot define, for television," she admitted. I appreciate this medium, the exposure it gave me. I critically analyze myself while I watch from bed," she continued, "and It Is a frightening thing. But I must admit, of course, that the stage is my real love." Asked If her rugged schedule of taped shows, movies, and stage commitments tired her excessively, she said, "No, I have lots of energy.

I watch my diet because I feel better when I eat correctly, and can say truthfully I do love to eat!" It turns out that Ruth McDevitt Is a gourmet cook, likes all cuisines, and finds it as easy to change her food patterns as she does her wardrobe. As a married woman, cooking and entertaining for any number was as easy as it Is for her to learn lines now. As a peripatetic actress, she now limits her dinner parties to 4 or 6 when she is in town. Asked if she liked cherries and strawberries, she seemed surprised. "Why do you ask that?" She seemed more surprised to have it pointed out to her that the dress she was wearing had red cherries printed on it, the apron for the play was a riot of strawberries, and a very handsome costume for the third act was a solid, bright raspberry.

"I do like the crisp red fruits," she said. "Come to think of it, I don't like the texture of bananas at all!" Here, pleasing the Bergen audiences, Ruth McDevitt has come from her television role as the original Mom Peepers, as well as roles for S. Steel and "Dr. On Broadway she played' in "Arsenic and Old "The Solid Gold The movies have featured her In "The "Dear and "The Parent Ruth McDevitt has come a long way since 40, and ex-pecta to get a lot more mileage on the boardi In the yean to com. I I I I ipJS jT i i MMl inngragj.

JMWtWW WjW' ljuagn "-a im h'i 'H 4 i 4 mmsm''-mtAamm in of this season of Northern New Jersey Vassar Club. Mrs. Worcester Is group's new president. Mrs. Jones represented Winterthur Museum of Wilmington, of which the showed tildes.

(Staff photograph.) VASSAR GROUP ENDS SEASON Mrs. Wilmot Jones, Mrs. Julian Scholl of Englewood, Mrs. William W. Worcester of Tenafly, and Mrs.

Richard N. Pleraon of Englewood were photographed at lmch at Bod Lloa Iaa, ftruJ function ACTRESS RUTH Mc DEVTrT i.