feat PAGE §. THE HERALD, Thursday. November 24, 1977 Mennonites exploited ELMIRA, Ont. (CP) — Mennonite women aré being exploited by people who offer small sums for intricate quilts, an Elmira shop keeper claims. Carla Krause, with the aid of her husband, Rudy, and her daughter have made their craft shop the outlet for Mennonite quilts in an effort to protect Mennonite quilters. A number of the beautifully designed quilts have been shipped as far as Australia, Japan, Switzerland and Germany. Orders are received from many parts of the world at The Sap Bucket, & non-profit craftsmen’s co-operative store. Some- times samples of wall paper or swatches of material are sent and a co-ordinate quilt is re- quested. Krause, an industrial engineer, creates a corresponding design for the quilt. Considerable time is also spent by Mrs. Krause in finding fabries for a Special custom-made quilt. “That is what makes the quilts, which are displayed here, unique. Mennonite women are tremendous quilters but ordinary fabrics. We choose striking materials and the finished quilt is yery beautiful,’’ Mrs, Krause said. Designs, handed down in Mennonite families through generations—the double wedding ring brick designs an othere— are frequently used when the quilt is not for a specific order. The shop has about 10 Men- nonite quilters on call. Custom orders are handled only by one quilter, usually the most experienced. The most adept is a woman in her eighties. OFFER LOW PRICES “City people come to this area and offer about $80 to Mennonite women to make a special quilt. This means she has to find the design, the fabric ap do all. the work i cluding quilting, piecing and finishing, for this small remuneration. It represents months of ious work.’’ The entire top storey of the quaint Elmira shop is filled with handmade quilts. They range in ice from $140 to $250. e stock is large enough for customers to make an on-thespot selection if they don’t want to wait they generally use quite several months for a Husband Says Cut Out Those Business Trips by Abigail Van Buren © 1977 by The Chicago Tribune-N.¥. News Synd. tne, DEAR ABBY: I've been married lesa than a month and my husband has already given me an ultimatum. If IF go on any overnight business trips with the professional group I belong to, we are finished! Abby, this is my third marriage, and I want it to be my last. I am a professional woman and I've gone to these meetings for years, I am not going to give them up just because my husband feels threatened. I made the mistake of telling him about a couple of flings Thad on these trips, but that was long before I knew him. I swear I have no interest in any other man! He won't believe me. He is an absolute nut on the subject! I'm 38, and don't need any extracurricular flings. How can I convince this nut I'm married to that he can trust me out of town? NOT GIVING IN DEAR NOT: You should have settled this with your “nut" before you tied the knot. If you invite him to go along on the trips, he may feel less threatened. If that deean’t work, you will have to chose between your nut and your business trips. DEAR ABBY: My husband's bos. ants to transfer us to a bigger city about 500 miles from here. It has more advantages for our children and would mean a big promotion for my husband, but every time I think of moving, I burst into tears. I've evan put off going there to look for a place to Live because I hate the thought of leaving this town. I've lived here all my life. My family lives here. Our children’s friends are here, And we have just built a lovely home. 1 know [ sound selfish, but I can't help it. My husband wants to move. If I need a good lecture, let me have it. HATES TO MOVE DEAR HATES: You rattled the right cage. Ifa manis to succeed in business, his greatest asset is a wile who is always in hia corner. Let him accept the promotion. You and your children will make new friends. Help your husband climb the ladder of success by being supportive, and you will have another lovely home that his “Jack” it. DEAR ABBY: I’ve just had the biggest slapdown in my life. My insurance company has disallowed the prosthesis I bought for the mastectomy I had four years ago. It's not a case of vanity or replacing a piece of female equipment, It's a case of restoring equilibrium. Without proper. balance, a woman cannot walk straight, Also, her neck and shoulders ache from the lopsidedness. Those little pads and “falsies” from the department store don't work, At my son's wedding, I was dancing and having a marvelous time, when my sister caught my eye and whispered urgently in my ear, “Please go to the ladies’ room and check your falsie!" It had worked its way up to my shoulder!) After that, [ phoned my local American Cancer Society to find out where to get a properly fitting prosthesis. Just two days after I had it, my neck and shoulder pain disappeared. And it feels so good and looks so natural, Abby, if you print this, maybe some bright insurance executive will see it and realize that such a prosthesis is not simply cosmetic. It’s vital to the health of a woman who has had a mastectomy. ST. LOUIS WOMAN letter. Ingurance DEAR WOMAN: Here's your executives? Tell your troubles to Abby. For a personal reply, write to Abby, Box 69700, Los Angeles, Calif. $0069, Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. custom made quilt to be completed. . Many of the orders come through tourists who have visited the shop and told friends in their homelands of the unique Mennonite quilts available there. Mennonite women are quilting Christmas tree wall hangings, Christmas stockings, place mats, tree skirts, chair covers and table cloths for the shop which also handles their hooked and braided mats, as well as Men- nonite sun bonnets, Men- nonite dolls and apple dolls, maple sugar and maple syrup. Pillow shams are also quilted to match any design. A special children’s room at the shop displays hand-made wooden toys, smocked dresses, stufied toys and dolis, children's aprons and other gift items. Mrs. Krause said the nonprofit shop handles crafts from about 300 craftsmen but the Mennonite quilts and quilted articles comprise e@ major portion of the business. She estimates about $50 is received by the shop in the: transactions for fabrics, designs in the sale of each quilt. The Mennonite women know nothin about business and when asked to make quilts for trivial sums they usually agree,’’ Mrs. Krause said. Inquiry delayed By ANN DUNCAN OTTAWA (CP) — An announcement Tuesday that a five-year-old inquiry into accounting procedures of federally- regulated _tele- communications com- panies will not be com- pleted until 1980 drew eavy criticisms from a New Democrat MP and the Consumers’ Association of Canada. Cyril Symes, NDP communications _ critic, called the announcement outrageaus, while the consumers’ group called it incredible. The inquiry, being conducted Vy the Canadian Radio-tele- vision and Telecom- munications Commission (CRTC), eventually may result in substantial sav- ings for users of the-tele- communications com- panies, including telephone companies, if the firms are made to change their accounting procedures. The inquiry also might result in more effective regulation cf the com- nies and prevent them rom siphoning off profits into unregulated sub- sidiaries, a CRTC official has said. But both Symes and Greg Kane, lawyer for the consumers’ group, said in separate in- terviews that it is Your Individual Horoscope Frances Drake ureasonable for the CRTC to make con- sumers wait until 1580 before they derive the full benefits of the inquiry. BELL SINGLED OUT He singled Bell Canada for particular criticism, ealling some of their present accountin practices “screwy” an saying those practices have resulted in un- necessarily hi telephone rates. Kane criticized the CRTC for drawing the inquiry out until 1930 because it contradicts an earlier announcement from the CRTC, saying it wanted to bring the inquiry to a rapid con- clusion. However, CRTC chairman Pierre Camu said the lengthy process of the inquiry is unavoi- dable because of lengthy studies that are being conducted and time needed to wade through all the material. But Symes called that comment ‘bureaucratic jargon.” He said reams of documents and studies already have been filed with the commission on the issue and there is no apparent reason for mounds of more in- formation. Camu also said, if at all possible, he will try to wrap up the inquiry by 1979 and push forward the deadline. FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1977 What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth Sign. ARTES (Mar, 21 to Apr. 20) TES Especially favored now: career matters, opportunities to increase prestige. You may be given increased responsibility but, with it, there’s increased potential. TAURUS" (Apr. 21 to May 21) Bayr Be prepared to cope with strangers, odd situations. Pinpoint objectives; be selective about activities. Step up momentum where possible. GEMINI Fie (May 22 to June 21) Make sure you have checked all facts and factors before making agreements or con+ mitments, But do not quibble foolishly and lose out. 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