The Bensenville Register from Bensenville, Illinois • Page 13

THE REGISTER Novembar 18, 1970 Section 2 Luncheon Is Served Easy Road To Profits TRINITY CHURCH members served guests at the Luncheon is Served benefit but had none of the work of planning, purchasing and preparing the three-course meal. Mrs. George McCaughrean gave appetizer samples to Mrs. Robert Black, Mount Prospect, and Mrs. Jack Grimm, Palatine.

Suburban Speaking Lady Editor by KAY and MARY ELLEN Are you the one woman in a hundred who can identify Sarah Josepha Hale? Then you know how much this woman who lived from 1788 to 1879 had to do with the way you live today. Do you, for instance, clip recipes and other homemaking ideas from the magazines? As the first woman editor in America, Sarah Josepha Hale made Book the forerunner of great service publications. Do you wish you had more free time? Sarah Josiepha Hale championed every labor-saving home appliance, knowing the value of even seconds saved to the busy housewife. She often said, can be no education without leisure, and without leisure education is Did you go to college? Sarah Josepha Hale was a passionate filter for education and had much to do with making Vassar the first college attempting to offer women an education comparable to that then available to men in the great colleges (rf the East. ARE YOU A working wife? Sarah sepha Hale began the fight for the retention of property rights by married wom- 1 In her day, all property of a wife, including her earnings, belonged to her husband.

Are you a working mother? Sarah Josepha Hale started the first day nursery. Are you thinking about going back to work, but afraid that too old? Sarah Josepha Hale even start her career until she was left a widow with five children to raise. She won her first job at the age of 40 years, and all her achievements took place after she was 40. She was the first to advocate women as teachers in public schools, the first to stress the necessity of physical training for women, the first to suggest public playgrounds. Among her many accomplishments, this lady who lived to be 90 also founded the first society for the advancement of wages, sent out the first women medical missionaries, introduced the idea of a fund-raising fair bazaar and wrote some two dozen books and hundreds of poems, including Had a Little SARAH JOSEPHA Hale herself was something of a than a militant feminist.

Strikingly beautiful and exquisitely dressed, she worked well within the establishment, attacking the very foundations of Victorian society and playing upon the sentiments of her audience to introduce revolutionary ideas in the most ladylike editorials. Susan Anthony, Emma Willard, Lucy Stone, Amelia Bloomer and other controversial contemporaries got much more publicity than the circumspect lady editor of She got results. In the words of her biographer, Ruth E. Finley, Josepha Hale, above all other women of her time, speeded the thought and progress of her sex in this It may well be, as the Hb people say, that we have a long way to go. But, in the words of the commercial, come a long way, thanks in no small part to Sarah Josepha Hale.

So, as you count your blessings this Thanksgiving, you may just want to include Sarah Josepha Hale. AND, INCIDENTALLY, you can thank her, too, for Thanksgiving itself, at least as we know it today. The influential lady of wrote hundreds of letters and editorials in a long campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Her fight was won in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued his National Thanksgiving Proclamaticm. Have a happy Thanksgiving! EXPERT COOKS from Luncheon Is Served take over the kitchen of Trinity Methodist Church.

Ladies of the church help with serving, decorating tables and cleanup. June Gooris fills a plate of small pizza appetizers for Mrs. Charles Lorch to serve guests. by DORIE McCLELLAN Imagine inviting 100 to 150 women to a luncheon without having to plan, purchase or prepare any of the menu. Besides that, think of selling tickets to the luncheon and then depositing all of the money except a very small amount into your club treasury.

Sounds like just the dream of a zealous ways and means chairman. But it a dream. an unusual idea for staging luncheons for groups called Luncheon Is Served. The organization is sponsored by food manufacturers whose products are used in the meal. It provides a hostess and several cooks who bring along the entire three-course menu, while the club giving the luncheon needs only to supply women to help with table setting, serving and clean-up.

The club can sell tickets at any price it wishes, tickets that are also furnished by Luncheon Is Served. All of the proceeds go to the club except for a small service fee. Food prizes are also distributed. THE LUNCHEON IS Served production was started in Philadelphia in 1945 by a home economist working with groups. It has spread from coast to coast, however, it is not too well known in the northwest suburbs.

Trinity Methodist Church in Mount Prospect presented the luncheon recently and combined it with a fashion show from the Cynthia Shop of Des Plaines. The dual event made a pleasant afternoon for members of the Society of Christian Service and their guests. After luncheon in the church hall, the women moved into the Christmas-bedecked sanctuary for the fashion parade of models from the membership, church hall, featuring cornucopias filled with autumn fruits centered on yellow and white checkered tablecloths. These decorations were furnished by the churchwomen, but one of the LIS sponsors sent along large turkey mobiles and colored leaves to add to the festive setting. AT EACH setting was a collection of coupons to use in shopping for foods that went into the meal.

Several food samples also dotted the tables. After the meal, gifts were distributed from a display table filled with the products. The real winner of the afternoon was the Society, which enjoyed the easiest of fund-raising activities. Marvel Larson of Northbrook, area representative for Luncheon Is Served, was an amiable hostess. She had her cooks and the volunteer staff well organized, keeping the food service running smoothly and punctuating her show with recipes, tips on convenience foods and comments on serving the meal at hand.

The menu for the Trinity church luncheon? For starters there were appetizers of tiny pizza squares, teriyaki meatballs, potato salad (using instant mashed potatoes), beef sausages and a pink goddess dip. This was all complemented by a table of iced cola. THE ENTREE CONSISTED of ham slices, wild rice, green bean bake and hearth bread. Dessert was orange sherbet accented with sugar wafers. Ways and means chairman Mrs.

Donald Meanger of Des Plaines was so enthusiastic about the apparent success of the event, she explained, is great; going to ask Marvel back again next Because so many homemakers are going back to work, difficult to get a good turnout to a weekday luncheon, say the chairmen of many groups. In contrast, 150 responded to tickets for this church benefit which filled the hall to capacity. An audience of 80 to 125 is the usual that LIS anticipates for a comfortable and profitable party for the host group. But that figure is flexible. The organization advertises: fun in your It can be fun when you consider the two aspects of Luncheon Is Served little work and lots of profit.

LUNCHEON IS SERVED hostess Marvel Larson shows Adams, a member of Trinity Society, and her samples of food served at the recent fund-raiser at Trin- daughter, Mrs. Frank Svoboda Jr. of Des Plaines, at ity Methodist Church, Mount Prospect. Mrs. T.

Gordon right, were among the 150 guests..