European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 30, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 army wife s Art is frosting on the cake Ansbach Germany Sis a freshly baked cake is taken out of the oven. It s done just right ready to be frosted. Then a hand squashes the top putting a Dent in it or mls Chevious fingers tear a chunk out of one Side. Us. Of. Disaster. That cute decoration of the Fonz you were going to inscribe with Butler Cream frosting on your child s birthday cake just went Down the Drain. Or did it not so according to Phyllis Adams who ruins cakes in the classes she teaches in order to show students How to make re pairs. In cake decorating you arc Only limited by your own imagination and daring Adams said. An army wife herself Adams first Learned cake decorating from another army wife while she and her husband copt. Robert c. Adams were stationed in Virginia. I decided i had a flair for decorating and started she said adding that she was soon swamped with orders from neighbors and by seethed by other wives who wanted to learn How. Adams said that cake decorating has expanded her Outlook on life. It makes you Independent. It gives you something to do. It kept me from being a bored Little House wife who could t get a Job has no training and can t take time off from motherhood and housework the Mother of four said. Another Benefit to doing your own Deco rating Adams said is that it saves Money on gifts. Everybody else buys perfume from the Avon lady for a gift. A decorated cake makes a personalized gift. Plus there Are no mistakes in cake decorating. What you Don t eat you cover up she said. The Only disadvantage she mentioned was that Licking your fingers constitutes five in the past four years Adams estimates she has taught cake decorating to 150 women. Her classes consist of five three hour lessons in which each woman Deco rates two cakes per session. Adams said that during the classes she does t make a cake because in the past it led to student morale problems. Students would look at their cake and compare it with mine and say it s not Good i d Tell them to take it Home and that their husbands and friends who Haven t made a cake will All rave. The next week they would come Back All smiles and Tell me i was right the teacher said. For Adams the real Challenge in Deco rating is coming up with new cakes from old have a pan shaped like Raggedy Ann. From this pan i have made a football player a cheerleader a bavarian girl and boy a spaceman with a helmet and a baby for a Shower the decorator said. Barbara Cullen yoga instructor Sample Loken shows students at Kam Sweln a How to stretch properly. Air Force photo by Yancey Hughes of wife clears up misconceptions does yoga make you veg Efan an by Barbara Cullen staff writer Ramstein Germany sol the oohs and has grew louder. Some said in disbelief it does t seem for the several Hundred women packed in the theater Hall the demonstration going on before Thorn seemed like a Mira Cle. On stage a woman dressed in Black tights rested on her forearms her Torso arched above her. Her legs Bent Over her Man at the microphone described the position As the some Mem Bers of the audience leaned Forward in their scats to better judge the woman s facial expression. She did t seem to be in pain. If anything she seemed quite relaxed and Content. One woman in the audience whispered loudly she s Young and does t have any children Only to be corrected by the announcer that the instructor was .16 and the Mother of a 17-year-old son. An old adage says that a healthy doctor is the Best advertisement for his practice. Similarly yoga instructor Sammie Lokun is proof of what she preaches. Like Many yoga converts liken first became inter ested in the exercises to lose weight. "1 had a shift of weight to the hips and thighs instead of where i preferred it to the Fonz one of the teacher s pet creations. Photo for is by Phyllis Adams the former Legal Secretary said. I did t realize the mental benefits until i got into 11." she said people usually attend her classes or demonstrations out of curiosity. The first thing they ask is. What can yoga do for me " she said. After that she is asked questions yoga instructors hear wherever they go is yoga a religion does yoga make you a vegetarian i o you have to meditate docs yoga turn you into an occultist she said the answer to All of the above is no. You Don t have to do any of the above to enjoy yoga. Loken said that to practice yoga one does Mohave to become a vegetarian. However she added that Many times Stu dents of the Art Cut Down on their meat con sumption because they find eating meat makes them eel As for yoga being a religion Loken said Many people have this misconception be cause yoga was started by monks. I m not trying to change anyone s religious beliefs she said and 1 Don t go into medi tation. But i admit i am interested in Lokun said that what you get from yoga depends on How devoted you Are in your practice. I gear my classes assuming that they students practice five limes a week. Ever Day is the Ideal. It took me a year to get into the habit. Yoga has to be a habit and it docs become habit forming. It s a Day in Day out habit and that s the secret if you Don t think this much of yourself who will she asked. Loken said that another mistaken belief Many people have is that yoga is Only fur women under what statue of the Law was this Man arrested Athens. Greece api an italian tourist arrested for strolling nude around the Center of Athens said he was inspired by the nakedness of the ancient statues Dis played in so Many Public places in the greek capital police reported. Bernardo Antonio Fuchs 23, protested that his arrest contradicted the greek glorification of the human body. But he was ordered to stand trial on a charge of of fending Public morals. Not she answers. Yoga is for men As much As for Loken gives a demonstration she twists through three positions in each of the three hierarchies of difficulty. For a demonstration she gave at the american women s activities. Germany conference in . She arched and stretched her Way through such positions As the plough shoulder stand hip stand the Crane the scorpion and the Sun Saluta husband. Air Force maj. Thomas Lokun of Ramstein a was the announcer at the demonstration As he is at most functions. He explains what position she is doing and tells the audience what benefits they will derive from she has finished Lokun addresses the audience. Yoga she warns is not something you master overnight she said that for most people it requires four years of practice before they can master such advanced positions As the scorpion and Sun in her mind the mental and physical results Are Well Worth the Effort. Once you re introduced to yoga you never forget it she said. It s such an Awakening to find out How out of shape you Are. Your body is supposed to be Sample Loken
