Page 6 RAIN February-March 1979 GOODTHINGS Older Women's Network 3502 Coyote Creek Road - Wolf Creek, OR 97497 • Newsletter available, supported by donations Wonderful Older Women 1014 S. 47th St. Philadelphia, PA 19143 The energy and honesty of these two groups of ~omen turns me on. Older Women's Network (OWN) is a couhtry ·collective in Southern Oregon.which puts out a newsletter filled with warmth and caring. In past workshops they have constructed a solar greenhouse, •taught country survival skill,s and held support rap sessions. In contrast to the rural setting of OWN is Wonderful Older Women (WOW), an urban collective associated with the Movement for a New Society (4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143). They offer workshops, perform street theater and write songs. - PC ,, Jean Rose's Kitchen Cosmetics: Using Herbs and Eatables in Natural Cosmetics, 128 pp., $3.95 from: Panjandrum/Aris Books 99 Sanchez Street San Francisco, CA 94114 •The word cosmetics, from the Greek root Kosmetiko, really means the art of beautifying the body. Commercial-cosmetics have a tendency to deal with external applications alone, where Jean Rose's Kitchen Cosmetics is concerned with gradual and long-lasting effects which harmonize and bring a balance to skin functions. Her cosmetics recipes, many that work from the inside to the outside, are devised to keep you not only looking but feeling healthy and 'attractive from head to toe. Rose spices her simple recipes with herbal lore and witty epigrams. Based on common kitchen and garden ingredients, from yogurt to strawberries, it 1also offers generai'hints on the~gathering and preparation of fresh plants for cosmetic application. Here is a book which should be kept on the kitchen shelf next to your favorite cookbook and used just as m_uch. -NS from Indian Artists 1;1t Work Indian Artists at Work, Ulli Steltzer, 1978, 163 pp., $8.95 softcover, from: University of Washington Press Seattle, WA 98105 One of Rain's favorite books, from which we have drawn both a cover photo and a photograph for Stepping Stones, Ulli Steltzer's perceptive dqcumentary of the Native craftspeople of British Columbia is now available in softcover at a lower price. Over 200 penetrating photographs and short texts come together to remind us that "the only way ·tradition can be carried · on is to keep inventing new things." -SA Herb andAilment Cross Reference Chart, $6.00 plus $1.00 postage from: United Communications Box 320 Woodmere, NY 11598 , If you are not intimidated.by fine print and take the time.to read the simple instructions as to how to use the chart this 30"x40" hand-drawn pen and ink' labor of love can be an invaluable guide to any of you interested in the medicinal application of herbs. v This chart is thoroughly cross-referenced with just about every herb book I own or would like to own, from Jethro Kloss' Back to Eden to Cu/pepper's Herbal and V. J. Vogel's American Indian Medicine, to mention a few. Just in case you don't have six hands and 30 fingers to assist in the crossreference process, a yardstick type strip containing the ailments comes with the .poster, making it easier to correspond ailment to herb. Uses, minerals, symbols, vitamins, properties and definitions are all found in this visual encyclopedia of herbal lore . . . and coloring it in makes it that much more useful. - NS FOOD A Guide for Action on Food and Hunger in the School and Community, John Ripton and Susan Hall, 1977, 50 pp., $1 from: WHY Box 1975 Garden City, NY 115 30 Looks like a good guide to _get teachers and students involved with the issues surrounding food in their community. Suggested classroom and community activities are intertwined to examine food production, ma-rketing and advertising, nutriton, hunger and community gardens. Anyone using the pamphlet also might want to consider the subjects of recyclable containers and compost operations to complete the cycle. Resource list of films, books and groups included. This booklet is for doers. - PC
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