816-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, April 26,1986
On being
a farm wife
Joyce Bupp
-And other
hazards
There are emotional moments in
every woman’s life.
Her first date. Her wedding day.
Days she gives birth. A child’s first
day of school.
And smaller clashes with
trauma: finding the cat sampling
the bake sale chocolate cake, a
dishwasher clogging which turns
your kitchen floor into a swamp, or
getting a flat tire when you’re
already late for a wedding and
dressed in your new cream
colored, dry-clean-only, best
summer suit.
Not to mention moving into a
new handbag.
Fewer possessions are more
precious and critical to a woman’s
life than her handbag. A woman’s
whole identity is encapsulated
within the leather (or imitation)
confines of her purse.
The closest male possession
comparable to a handbag is a
toolbox, briefcase, or maybe a
fishing tackle box.
Males, naturally, are quick to
poke fun at handbags. They are
also the first to request that this or
that be stashed in them at op
portune times. Such things as
candy bars, road maps, and a list
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of part numbers for the haybine.
Women, on the other hand, are
frowned upon if they poke fun at
the size or contents of a toolbox, or
question the need to add more
ingredients to a well-stocked
tackle box. Still, for supplying
impromptu family necessities,
such as baby diapers, Band-Aids or
a safety pin, briefcases, toolboxes,
and tackle boxes are generally
useless.
Unless a woman spends her life
on a social party circuit (no one I
know), a fairly-sized purse is a
necessity. Sections, preferably
with zipper or snap closure to keep
the contents therein are desireable
and allow at least a hint of
organization. Color, style, and a
designer name are optional. The
basic idea, though, is a compact,
attractive, lightweight unit with
the storage capacity of a four-,
drawer filing cabinet, and U-Haul
portability.
It is with extreme reluctance
that I personally move from a well
broken, comfortable pqrse, which
feels like home, into a handbag
stranger. A familiar purse is like a
familiar room you can find your
way around it in the dark. With a
In
Location
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RICHLAND, PA.
717-866-5701
LYONS, NY
315-946-9758
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new one, you need a directui y ,
index, or road map.
As you probably guessed by now,
I have recently dealt with this
stressful lifechange. Just getting
through the paper stuffing in the
new handbag proved to be a time
consuming procedure.
Someone should introduce
national legislation to prevent 600
acres or so of trees annually from
being chopped down to provide
paper for stuffing in new hand
bags. (This practice is actually
encouraged by a Political Action
Committee of Litterbugs, Inc., the
same people who bring you fast
food packaging containers.)
The real adventurous part of
moving into a new handbag is the
retrieval and relocation process.
The deciding which goes where,
and with what, and how. A wallet
in the checkbook section? Or is
that too fat to fit? Lipsticks with a
compact, or with the comb and
brush? Is there room for the little
pack of makeup tissues, several
sets of keys and the screwdriver
sometimes needed to jiggle the car
door mechanism.
KEN CLUGSTON VERNON SEIBEL
665-6775 665-2782
CRAFT-BllT
CONSTRUCTION INC.
FARM-HOME BUILDING
R.DJ2 MANHEIM, PA.
PH: 665-4372
BUILDINGS REMODELING FOR
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And somewhere you must leave from the last cattle show to bed a
a comer to stash the equipment calf hutch.
part you’ll be asked to pick up on if you feel about this matter as I
your next trip to town. do, consider signing up with me as
One economic plus: by the time a charter member of HA! (Hand
you have conquered the move from bags Anonymous). In place of
one purse to another, you will have handbags, we’ll carry large, color
discovered enough throwaway coordinated toolboxes. Stocked
junk to keep the neighborhood with chewing gum, marker pens, a
trash service in business for pack of Lifesavers and list of
another week or two. And in my family members’jeans sizes,
case, enough shavings and straw just call it another step toward
equal rights.
Perry County seeks
dairy princess candidates
LOYSVILLE All single young
women between the ages of 16 and
24 from a dairy farm background
are eligible to compete in the 1986
Perry County dairy princess
pageant.
The pageant will be held Friday,
June 20 at 8 p.m. at the Perry
County Fairgrounds in Newport.
The pageant will be held in con
junction with the annual Heritage
Days.
Any single woman who has
completed her junior vear in high
(717)
299-2541
DON LOHR Northern MD & Southern PA 717-684-8431
HAROLD BRECHT... North Central PA Rep 717-356-7962
DAVE BORSOI Eastern PA Rep 215-865-5795
JAMES H. McKENNY. Southern Maryland 301-257-2572
school, is not over 24 years of age,
never married and whose parents
or guardians are dairy farmers, is
eligible to compete. A candidate is
also eligible if she is a full-time
employee on an operating dairy
farm or if she owns at least two
dairy animals.
Young women interested in
entering the contest should contact
Beth Anne Rice, Rl, Biain, PA
17006 or Roxanne Gable, Rl, Box
361 Newport, PA 17074, by May 23.
FRANK A.
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Competitive Prices Paid
Slaughtered under
government inspection
Call: Frank Filllppo -
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