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Newman center Esther Howland, originator The eairly valentines were a labor-of love Father Clean in lecture series Southern Illinoisan Family living I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1976 Page Six Illf llllr j' The way to her heart Is with a quality diamond from The Newman Center at Southern Illinois University will present Father Francis X. Cleary S.J. as a speaker in their Newman Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Father Cleary is a member of the theological faculty at St.

Louis University and will speak ou "Hie Real Jesus of the Ne Testament Writings." As a speaker in the Newman Lecture Series, Fatner Cleary follows such notable speakers as Frank Reynolds of ABC News, Mrs. Paul Simon and R. Buckminster Fuller. The Newman Lecture Series is underwritten by The Catholic Knights and Ladies of Illinois who have sponsored free lectures to the Carbondale community for the past three years. The public is requested to (Advertisement) LOSE UGLY FAT OR PAY NOTHING Start losing weight today OR MONEY BACK.

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Her cards also had hand-painted silk and satin centers; models had set-in mirrors and many were multiply-folded to reveal their 1 i o-graphed message gradually. One card, folded seven times, reportedly sold for $30 quite Father Francis X. Cleary S.J. obtain complimentary tickets from the Newman Center, 715 S. Washington, Carbondale, ill Karr Drug Store 119 E.

Cherry- nernn Hart's Pharmacy-Murphys boro-Mail Orders Filled. Under the date of Feb. 14, 1848, Emily Dickinson, a student at Mont Holyoke Female Seminary in South ley, wrote' her brother that Mary Lyon, the founder of the college, forbade the students to send "those foolish notes called valentines." Ironically, Esther Howland, who was graduated from Mount Holyoke the previous year, was just embarking on a career as a commercial valentine manufacturer. Born in Worcester, Esther Howland received her first English valentine in 1847, the year she graduated from Mount Holyoke. She became so enchanted by the ornate delicacy of this English novelty, that she tried making some valentines of her own.

She persuaded her father, a leading bookseller and stationer in Worcester, to import an array of notions linen laces, colored paper, and paper flowers specialty items unobtainable in America, which she would use to make her valentines luxuriant in detail. Pleased with the artfulness and incentive of his daughter, Southworth Howland obliged. And after Esther had pasted together over a doxen elegant messages, her brother Allen, a salesman for the family firm, carried them as samples on his next business trip. Esther, who had hoped for perhaps $200 worth of business to get herself started, might well have been overwhelmed when her brother returned with orders valued at $5,000. Working alone, her first set of orders would take her years io fill.

But, undaunted by the enormity of the undertaking, Esther used her enterprising mind while some of her friends came a sum in those days. She also employed tints and embossed lithographed ornaments onto Hand puppets help pastor with message the valentines, two techniques which were copied extensively in the United States. In the less than two decades that Esther Howland continued her labor of love, her trade had. expanded across the country to the Pacific Coast, and she earned between $50,000 and $100,000 annually. Miss Howland is reported to have paid her staff liberally, and each year she gave valentines to all the neighbor SHOP EVERYWHERE THEN SEE DEGASPERI'S FOR FINE FURNITURE REMEMBER YOU ALWAYS SAVE MORE AT DEGASPERI'S FLEXSTEEL TH0MASVILLE BEDDING BY REST0NIC The Bedding that's nice to get home to.

HOME FURNISHINGS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS DeGasperi's is located "IN THE FIELD" MURPHYSB0R0 18 mile North of Grandpa John's on 127, then Va mils left. STORE HOURS: DAILY 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Evenings by Appointment Onlyl PHONE 687-2814 He calls it 'ministry with media' hood children. Such valentines today are purchased by collectors and museums.

In 1886, Esther Howland sold her business to George C. Whitney, so that she could devote IRENE, S.C. (AP) Pastor Richard Zawistoski is making a part of his ministry "child's Play" The 28-year-old minister, known in Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Irene and in Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Merino as "Pastor Rich," will be using hand puppets as part of his duties. Pastor Zawistoski and his wife, Patsy, Maryland natives, met at Towson State College, where they were studying and where she took a course in puppetry. They moved to the Midwest when he attended Luther Seminary in St.

Paul, Minn. Puppetry entered the picture while he served at Branden-Split Rock Lutheran Parish and put on a puppet show with borrowed puppets and script. said she could make better puppets, and I felt I Woodworking Mennonite farmer finds a new career 1 give a gin ot roe nearc her time to the care of her ailing father. A woman of artistic ability, organization, and energy, she was perhaps one of America's first "liberated women" in the sense of her success in business. Tne originator of the famed "Worcester Valentines" never married, perhaps' because no man ever sent her a valentine original or convincing enough as the one she first received in 1847.

ST. JACOB'S, Canada (AP) Each morning Daniel Krae-mer, 72, one of the best-known Old Order Mennonites in County, drives down the main street of St. Jacob's in his could write a better script," he, said. Four days a week "I do all the kind of pastoral duties that have to be done that's really what I'm called to first," he said. On two other days it's puppets and other media.

Instead of a puppet ministry, I would rather call it a ministry with media," he said 'because it's not just puppets. You work with tapes and slides everything. "It's as valid as any. other ministry," he added. "It just depends on where your talents are.

"I'm a kid at heart, and most of the puppets are geared fou children," Pastor Zawistoski said, "but anything that's geared for children, adults listen in too, so you have both audiences at the same time. "Puppets are a way to get to kids at their level, and it's also a way to get to the adults almost without them knowing it." BautHul ftnuln diamond pendants in 14 let. whltt gold. Rg. $54.95 REPAIR SERVICE ON HOOVER VACUUM CLEANERS And Most Other Makes.

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Villagers eagerly snapped them up. He bought an empty shop down the street and added croquinole boards to his output. Thecroquinole boards brought him unexpected recognition. Polished to a satin smoothness with patient hand polishing, they drew customeres from all over the province. Soon he had orders from other areas in Canada.

Dealers from the United States began to visit the shop. Today the croquinole boards, which never warp, are shipped as far distant as New Zealand and Europe. His workmen are all Old Order Mennonites from the St. Jacob's and nearby Elmira area. Today Kraemer arrives at his office in his dachwagle and son, Ivan, who has a modern outlook, arrives in a car.

Between them Kraemer woodwork flourishes. to the rescue. More embossed and perforated paper arrived from England, and Esther transformed a spacious room of the Howland residence into a valentine factory. Long before Henry Ford began to produce cars, Esther Howland used the assembly line as a manufacturing process. Esther herself deisgned each card, while each of the half-dozen young women helping, her assumed a different part of the process from cutting and pasting to hand-painting flowers and birds or folding the valentine or hand-inscribing the rhymed message.

The valentine cards were passed from hand to hand. And each frilly addition was made until they reached the hand of Miss Howland, who inspected the completed works. By the end of 1849, Esther Howland found herself a businesswoman in her own right. And in 1850, when her sales had doubled, the entire third floor of the Howland house was converted over to the manufacture of the romantic missives. Though Esther Howland was not the first manufacturer of valentines in the United States, she is credited with horse-drawn dachwagle and stops in front of a modern shop.

The former farmer starts another day in his woodwork shop, one of the best-known businesses of its kind in southwestern Ontario. Over the last 20 years, since Kraemer put away his plow and quit his farm for village life, Kraemer Woodcraft Ltd. has developed into a business where $50,000 orders' for high-fashion items are commonplace during week. Incongruous as it may appear, the woodcraft company with its crew of Old Order Mennonites, who generally shy away from fashion or glamor, turns out some of the most sophisticated store fronts and interior decors in the province. No female staff runs the office Old Order Mennonites believe women's place is in the home.

But Kraemer and his son, Ivan, the mechanical genius of the firm, have their own office system. An office telephone is a necessary evil Old Order Mennonites do not have phones on their premises and most of the company business is transacted over it. yf io off yf on all programs I Mi Offer good thru Nko Valentine's 17 DRUGS 714 Hlmoi Ma. Srt. JO JERI LYNN Mm.

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