The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 12

12 SCRANTON TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970. Good News Letter Five thousand people gathered in New York for a Feminist Burning Bra demonstration. It dispursed without incident when none of the girls showed up. What can I tell you about home? Your schools still smell like chalk and wet gym sneakers. Your.

Mother still reads every letter over the phone to your sister. Your car still leaks oil on the driveway. Your wife still irons at night. Your dad would rather work Saturday than write a letter; Your kids still say evening prayers (and would bless King Kong if it meant staying up later.) This is not, in: any way meant to paint a pink and lavender version of the way things are back home. You are furnished with headlines that tell you what people are dying for.

This nonews is simply a reminder of the things worth living for. Newsday, Inc. By ERMA BOMBECK A few months ago I published a Good News column for sons and husbands stationed in Vietnam. The response was -tremendous. Mothers and wives said they enclosed it in their letters.

Servicemen wrote their appreciation for normalcy they had thought ceased to exist. Spiro Agnew wrote and wanted to know where I found good news in the first place. Since New Years is notoriously depressing I thought it time for another Goodtime letter. The whooping crane population is on the increase. The U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service reported there were five more birds produced this year than last, bringing the total to 55 produced this year. If there are any whooping cranes in your, outfit, pass it along. Prayer is still allowed on the Moon. An unsuccessful attempt was made to silence the astro nauts from reading scripture there. (They tell me when youre hovering over a crater in the Sea of Tranquility they need to summon help from someone with more authority than the Highway Patrol.) At least one local boy was enthusiastic over the draft lottery.

His birthday placed him 363rd. (Which means after women over 35 with varicose veins, he goes first.) Chet Huntley smiled the latter part of November indicating the news is getting better or the starch in his underwear is stiffer. Bob Hope appeared last week on an American stage, giving rise to a rumor that the war may soon be over. Shirley Temple is alive and well and creeping into the little hearts of delegates to the United Nations. It is great to live in a country where you can rise above being the bottom of a blue cereal bowl.

bracelet length sleeves enhanced with rolled gold braid and topaz rhinestones. Soft gathers eased the modified A-line skirt. A full length veil of illusion was arranged to a Camelot headpiece. She earned gold poinsettias and holly- Robert Dougherty, Scranton, was best man. Serving as ushers were: Frank Durkin, Scranton, and Paul Brazill, Endwell, N.Y.

An afternoon reception was held at the home of the brides parents. The former Miss Durkin, an alumna of St. Anns Monastery High School, was employed by Harper and Row The bridegroom, a graduate of West Scranton High School, is serving with the Air Force at Duluth International Airport, Duluth, where the couple will reside. Miss Elaine Ann Durkin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Durkin, 1113 W. Locust and James Dougherty, son of Mrs. Robert Dougherty, 409 S. Main and the late Mr. Dougherty, were united in marriage, Saturday, Dec.

27 in St. Anns Monastery Church. by the Rev. Robert Mulgrew. For her wedding the bride selected an empire gown of white karate featuring a high stand-up collar and short Juliet sleeves.

The neckline, bodice and cuffs were enhanced with bands of venise lace fleuretts and ribbon lace, above a cotillion sweep skirt. She wore a matching karate bow headpiece complemented with a cathedral length veil of illusion. She carried white poinsettias and holly. Mrs. Joan Durkin, Scranton, was matron of honor, attired in a cognac saki gown featuring an empire bodice, MISS CAROLYN ANN LANUTI Mr.

and Mrs. Leo M. Lanuti, 111 East Eynon, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Carolyn Ann, to 1st. Lt. William Babcock, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James W. Babcock, Indianapolis, Ind. The bride-elect is a graduate of St. Patricks High School, Olyphant, and St.

Josephs Hospital School of Nursing, Car-bondale. Miss Lanuti is employed as a registered nurse on the neurosurgical unit of George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. Her fiance is a graduate of Cathedral High School and Marian College, Indianapolis, where he received a bachelor of science degree in biology. He is serving in Vietnam with the Medium Marine Helicopter Squadron, as a Helicopter pilot section leader. The couple is planning a May 2 wedding.

in Gstaad on New Years Eve Arthur Little Jr. and his wife, Harriet, gave a thing at their beautiful half-round house. The Little villa has tremendous gardens and a staff of 30 or so, and will always be remembered as the place where the queen mother stayed on her visit to Jamaica. Adele Astairo Douglass, who has a cottage at Round Hill, entertained the next night. No matter where you go, theres no way out unless you take to your bed with influenza.

Rafaelle, Duchess of Lien-ster, former wife of Irelands 77-year-old premier peer, has decided to tell all about her life with the much-married duke. Currently visiting in New York, the American-born Rafaelle, second of the dukes four wives, has written the story of her four-year marriage to Lienster, during which time he was declared bankrupt for the third time. Rafaelle was given professional help with her book by Barbara Cartland, the prolific English romantic novelist who writes a paperback every other week or so, it would seem. (Barbara is the mother of the beautiful Countess of Dartmouth.) Barbara has touched up the Duchess story and has entitled it, Duchess on a Shoestring. Well, there are plenty of those.

The Pamela Curran-Bruce Norris charade is apparently reaching some sort of happy crescendo in Palm Beach. The romance began last summer in Southampton, where the multimillionaire Chicagoan met the beautiful blonde so- ciety actress, once the outstanding debutante of her year. Meanwhile, Norris almost-ex-wife, Armene, with whom he remains on the friendliest terms, is being seen with an old buddy of hers who resurfaced when Armene and Bruce broke it off. Regine, the queen of whats left of La Vie Parisienne, is arriving in New York for her Carnegie Hall concert Jan. 16.

Not only are the Ahmet Ert-guns of Atlatic Records renown giving an enormous soiree for her at. the Carlyle Hotel, but Claude Terrail, the Paris restauarteur, is giving a Lucullan repast in Regines honor at his La Seine Restaurant in New York. Claude has already laid in the necessary provisions to make Regine feel at home away from home. There will be baskets of langoustines accompanied by tourines of chive sauce, followed by broiled Gigot dAgneau with lemon sauce, salad Regine with cheese, and a sublime cream cake. The guest list, on dirt, is formidable.

On verra. Hohoho By SUZY KNICKERBOCKER Gstaad is reeling under an embarrassment of celebrities. Not only are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burton and the four children lolling in their chalet, but Soraya, the ex-empress of Iran, and her faithful (for the past year, anyhow) Italian beau, director Franco Indo-vina, can be seen shlepping through the -snow.

Soraya is staying with her mother at the chalet Les Aroles, which she takes each winter. Franco comes to fetch her in a sleigh each morning just like Santa Claus, hohoho. Alexander of Paris, hairdresser to queens and stars, has made four wigs for Sophia Loren in shades of blonde, red and chestnut. With eyebrows to match, no doubt? Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, divorced from Princess Maria Pia of Italy, is looking for a job in Paris, where he In the past, Alexander has been linked with Minouche LeBlan, Mrs. Antenor Patinos pretty blonde daughter, but it doesnt look as though that deal will ever be closed.

Barbara Hutton spent a cloistered Noel in the Imperial Suite of the Mark Hopkins (at a measly $2,500 a day) atop San Franciscos quaint cobbled Nob Hill. Her Vietnamese prince charming was not around. Swathed in sable covers, Barbara rests on the floor in her Japanese bed surrounded by magnificent Japanese antiquities collected just for her holiday sojourn at the suite by Drew Ponder-Greene of Gumps. Escadrille, the new private club, is getting its share of names. Frank Gifford dropped in not to sell refrigerators and air conditioners, but to play billiards.

So did Orin Lehman, with Natalie Cushing Fell. Then there were the young and beautiful types like the Philip Isleses, Prince and Princess Egon von Fursten-berg, the Guillermo Aguileras, Christina Drew in black and white, and model Marisa Ber-enson, just back from Tahiti, wearing purple Pucci pants and a gypsy scarf wound around her head. Marisa was with her new admirer, Jean Noyer, who runs a mens boutique in New York. Ad-mireres are where you find them. Mrs.

Oscar Hammerstein and artist Frank Milan nipped off to Mrs. Hammersteins lovely Jamaica place. High-. land House in Montego Bay to get away from it all. Well, wouldnt you know the first night Jane Langley had a party, the following night was Ellen McCluskey Longs turn (shes an interior designer and a Lehman heiress), and Unending Mahjongg Game Scranton Photo Portrait VC A DC.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. UArvO. Morini, 711 Fifth Dunmore, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.

A Mass of Thanksgiving will be celebrated at St. Marys Church, Dunmore, followed by a dinner hosted by their children at the Ru-Val Lounge. An open house will be held at the couples home at 8 p.m. Mr. and Mrs.

Morini were married Jan. 8, 1920, in St. Lucys Church, West Scranton. Mr. Morini, a retired chef, is the son of the late August Morini.

Mrs. Morini is the daughter jpf the late Mr. ami, Mrs. Felice Esposito. They are the parents of six children.

They are: Mrs. Angelina Derrig, Philip, Anthony, Andrew Mrs. Mae Bernardi and the late August. They also have 10 everything to themselves. They held it all in.

The result is they died early. Todays women tell their friends and are emotionally released. And so, right after lunch we begin the game and we play on sometimes through the night breaking only for tea and dinner. Mahjongg keeps us out of troulrie. I asked another acquaintance, a beautiful wife and mother originally from Shanghai: And just how do these little ivory tiles keep you out of trouble? She replied, We dont look for men like American ladies in their 40s do.

We know that a man wont sweep us off our feet when we reach that age. We also know that a husband needs much sex in his 20s but the woman needs it in her 40s which is when hes off trying it -with another girl who is still in her 20s. So, we Chinese ladies have a saying: Start the game early and play late and forget the men. For us, mahjongg is a salvation. loses face.

If you bring it in the open then your husband has no need of even keeping up appearances. Often he wont even bother to come home after that. Thats why Chinese ladies play mahjongg. Ask how that makes for mahjongg and youre told, It is therapy. You must use your brain to play and that takes your mind off your problems.

You get together with your good friends and you unburden your unhappiness. -It is not shameful or embarrassing because many others are in the same situation. In olden days men had to be very rich for this. Today even the middle classes have such minor wives. And so, you play mahjongg with your close friends and they comfort you.

Stoics Years back my countrywomen were stoics, explained Kitty, whose relationship with her husband is one of the rare dose ones Ive seen in this part of the world. They kept By CINDY ADAMS HONG KONG (WNS) We Chinese ladies have a saying, said the beautiful 42-year-old woman in the tight fitting cheongsam. When the men get older the mahjongg game gets longer. My years in and out of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the heavily Chinese areas of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia have taught me that, to the upper middle class Chinese housewife, mahjongg is not a game its a necessity. A recent discussion with four Chinese ladies on four separate occasions illuminated the major role the ivory tiles play in their lives.

One of them, Mrs. Leung, explained, A Chinese womans big protection from growing old is not to do anything. We play mahjongg or tell our amah what to do. Even the poor ladies have still poorer amahs. Mahjongg is the Chinese ladys outlet; she said Mrs.

Leung lives with her husband in a five-room apartment ten minutes from downtown Kowloon. The rent is about $135 a month in American money. The live-in amah gets $50 a month. (Ten years ago it was only $12 a month.) Labor costs are rising, while executive salaries are not. Although Mr.

Leung is a modest salaried man with three children, his Regional Ladies Auxiliary to Steam, fitters Local will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at IBEW Building. An interior decorator will be the guest speaker. Refreshments will be served. Mrs.

James DeAndrea will preside. 0.0 Mrs. Ida Schwartz, president of the Sisterhood of Congregational Beth Sholom announces the cancellation of the regular sisterhood meeting, which was scheduled for Monday evening, Jan. 12, because of weather. The monthly meeting which will feature a dinner and entertainment will be held in February at a time to be announced.

00 Koch-Conley Auxiliary, American Legion, will meet Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the post home. Datebook Election and installation of officers will highlight a meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Scranton District Den-tal Society, Monday at 6:30 p.m. in Jermyn Motor Inn.

Mrs. Alexander Casella will install the officers. Mrs. Richard Dikeman, retiring president, will. preside.

Reservations for Monday evenings meeting, may be made by calling Mesdames Michael A. Bagley, Richard Bush, Nicholas Saccone, Stanley Stempien, Ted Stampien, Vincent Coccodrilli and William A. Rose. Mrs. Norman Unitis, Mos- cow, will conduct a card party at her home on Tuesday at 8 p.m.

Members are reminded to call Mrs. Unitis for reservations. bridegroom, served as best man. Mrs. Gordon was graduated from Bryn Mawr College and is a graduate student at Columbia University School of Social Work Her husband, who was graduated from Amherst College, is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York City.

The couple will reside in New York City Miss Lewis Wed Bra Business Bounces Back To Ronald Gordon wife, like all her friends, spends her afternoons gambling. My wife, like most Chinese ladies, cant even cook, smiled Mr. Leung. Since the riots of 68 some are learning because they might have to move away and they must know how to cook their native dishes, but even that must be sandwiched in between sessions. All Chinese women play mahjongg every day, explained another friend, Mrs.

Kitty Chan, whose husband, Eddie, is a camerman. Chinese ladies accept the fact that most husbands cheat. The occasional fling we dont even think about. It is only the mistresses or concubines we think about. Even though a new law has been passed that a concubine is not a lawful heir to your husbands estate it stiU does not help because now they insist that the husbands give it to them before they pass on! I asked the difference between a concubine and a mistress.

She told me, A mistress is someone you pretend you dont know about. A concubine is someone you know about. Most Chinese ladies pretend they are unaware of such developments because this way the other woman does not gain stature and nobody Best buys in fresh vegetables are limited mostly to the hardy group including old crop cabbage, yellow cooking onions, radishes, rutabagas, squash and potatoes. Relatively short supplies of crops such as snap beans, cucumbers, peppers, celery, new cabbage and tomatoes are keeping prices from moderate to very high with variable quality in some, commodities. Meat prices have not changed appreciably and best buys are among store specials.

Fryer chickens, chuck roasts, boneless Boston butt, rib end pork loins, smoked picnics, and round steaks are among the specials you can expect to find in area markets. During the weeks ahead your nearby market will offer attractive sales on a variety of canned products. Pears, peaches, and tomato will be among the sale-priced foods. Canned tomatoes and tomato products, including juice, sauce, paste', puree, soup and ketchup are in good supply too. You can always stock up on canned foods because they keep their flavor, color and texture if stored" in a cool, dry place.

Citrus Fruits Good Buy Now Miss Stephanie Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Lewis, New Rochelle, N.Y., was married to Ronald Gordon, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Gordon, 70 Elmhurst Blvd. on Sunday, Dec. 21, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, by Judge Hoffman. Miss Diana-Jean Lewis, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Robert Gordon, New York City, brother of the av.vswvv;.v;v.wv v- AV.

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A I A A A A A AV. A A. a Womans World $. By JAN KING NEW YORK (WNS) Okay, ladies, the advertising profession has made a clean breast of it: You had them scared for a while with your fad for going without a bra, but that trend seems safely reversed now. In fact, youre spending more for such underthings than before.

Communications a voice of Madison Avenue recently reported the uplifting sage of how an impending disaster, the no-bra fad, was converted into a marketing coup. The down-with-the-brassiere movement reportedly began two years ago in England as a natural follow to the skirt. Crossing the Atlantic, it saw bra-burnings at the Miss America Pageant and a no-bra among women working at a California airplane factory. Obviously, the garment sections $200 million bra business needed quick holding up. And the sages' of Seventh Avenue peered deep into their D-cups to come out with an answer make bras that are hardly there have strong fashion appeal; that being in a sense non-bras, offer so much freedom that even a careful girl-watcher might be fooled.

Their idea clicked. Market-ingCommunications said the manufacturers came up with a coup instead of a catastrophe by getting over the notion they were in the but-tress-and-support business and seizing on the urge to be more natural by exploiting the beautiful body business with designs that give an unrestrained, unsupported and unpadded look. As one brassiere firm says, The bra used to do something to the bosom. Now the bosom shapes the bra. Eighty per cent of all girls under 25 think of themselves as being part of tlje no-bra generation, says another marketer.

But this doesnt necessarily mean going without a bra just having the same feeling as if you were! The underwear makers met theltopless fad, says Mar-ketingCommunications, by giving women the promise of nudity, if not the actual performance. This they did with advertising appeals like Shouldnt your second skin be as lovely as your first? So well have the bra people burst the are-bosom-bubble that sales now are reaching about $250 million annually. Todays mere nothings cost more than yesterdays unmentionables, and every female over 14 years of age will buy another 3.6 more bras before she gets another year older. If you are looking for methods to cut food costs this month, then, its a good time to check the seasonal foods that are in heavy supply. Leading items for January are fresh oranges and grapefruit, apples and potatoes.

Although fresh citrus fruits have been traveling North for several weeks the biggest part of the crop will be arriving from now on. Excellent crop prospects in Florida, Texas, California and Arizona boost chances of finding your favorite variety in local markets. As a result of the fine crop, both fresh oranges and frozen, chilled, and canned orange juice and other orange products will be in outstanding supply. Texas boasts of its largest grapefruit crop in 20 years. Some of their fruit along with shipments from Florida and other areas should assure us of plenty of breakfast grapefruit for weeks to come.

Apple harvest has been over for many weeks, but there are plenty of top quality apples coming out of refrigerated storages. Pennsylvania grown Red and Golden Delicious, McIntosh and Stayman are among the best buys this week. Hangdog Frenchmen PARIS (WNS) Andre Couteaux, author of Man Today, reports in this new French best-seller that Frenchmen lost their roles as masters of the house when they began losing wars. Frenchmen returned to their homes defeated in the War of 1870, he writes. Since then, Frenchwomen have more and more skinned the dog that bit them, if I dare to put it that way.

ANNIVERSARY: observed their 45th wedding anniversary Wednesday. The couple was married in St. Patricks Church by the late Rev. Thomas Durkin. They were attended by the late Mrs.

John Dowling and the late Frank Murphy. Mrs. OBoyle, the former Annabelle Mahon, is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mahon.

Mr. OBoyle, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John OBoyle, was employed by Haddon Craftsmen, prior to his retirement in 1967. They are the parents of two children, Mrs.

Robert Lons-dorf, Cincinnati, Ohio, and John Dupont. They also have four grandchildren. Prestige Work PARIS (WNS) The French Senate has advertised in the governments Journal Officiel for a lady to take care of its drhpes, curtains and other linens. To qualify for the job, the lady must first pass tests in typing, dictation, mathematics and other subjects worthy of Senate employes. After that, she must win a contest to prove that she knows more about linens thap her competitors.

It includes a dozen different examinations. The pay is small, but the lady will have the honor of caring for the famed Luxembourg Palace, where the Senate meets..