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Ano Landers.
Friers
DtAR ANNDANDERS: I
never read your column; but I
stumbled across it accide tally
yesterday, You certainly have a
nerve claiming, credit For •, he
• saying, "The only way to have a
friend is to be one." That motto
did not originate with you. The
credit' belongs to . Ralph Waldo
Ernerson. It:Opeats .in his Essays
on Friendship. ' •
• I'll betthis. is one letter you
won't print, „ FLORIDA.
DEAR - -FLORIDA': I hope
,you honor me again today by
• accidentally stumblingacross my
"subject -Matter-
might' be of interest. Please read
the following Tetter:
DEAR ANN LANDERS: I've
known for some time that you
think you are God, but I didn't
realize your identity problem
was so severe that you would
claim the Lord's 'word as, your
own, I 'refer to His, counsel on
friendship as it appears in the St
James version ofthe Bible. It is
as follows: "A man that hath
friends must show -himself
`friendly." _.
DEAR ANN , LANDERS:
Nothing is lower than a person
who steals ideas. You did NOT
originate the line, "The way 'to
have a friend is to be one." I
heard '.Edgar Guest say those
very words from the platform in
Detroit at leaseforty years ago. I
can't remember whether it was
f• rom a poem or if he made the
statement in a lecture. Anyway,
I wrote the phrase down because
it struck me _as worth
remembering. You owe your
'readers an apology. -= BIG,
RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
DEAR BIG RAP: Thanks for
youlletter. Please read the
next
one.
Derek is a good-looking bob',
g g as you see, 19 months old.
Scottish, Irish' and German in origin, he is nicely built, with
' big blue eyes, very long dark lashes, fair skin and rosy •
cheeks. He . is in excellent health. •
Derek is an affectionate 'Iad° who loves to he cuddled.
He's not boisterous or rambunctious but he likes to be with
other children in . the midst of their *activity and he knows
very well how to get into mischief, which means into,
clpboards and drawers.
Sincehe is a good-natured, easygoing boy he would be
an lade[ son for` :inexperienced parents to: start their family.
To inquire about adopting Derekpleasewrite to Today's
Child; Department
i
of" Sbc al and 'Family Services, Parliia-
• inent Buildings, Toronto 182. For general adopton nforma-
tion. ask .your Children's Aid Society. "
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-� on 81- Sons Ltd
James�- 'R�c-�a ds
Serving The Feed, Dealers of Western Ontario,
PHONE 5248388, GODE$ICH
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DEAR ANN LANDERS: In
the past you've, been .big enough
t°" admit it when you are wrong.
I hope y_ouu_wiil do sq again. You
claim' to have made, up the'
• .phrase, t,The way to have a
friend is to be one." Robert.
• Louis Stevenson wrote those
•
#ter
words,, Hem's - the eompiete.
.sentence: ' "To have a friend is to
be one; not just once in a"while,
or when it's convenient, but year,
inand year out,"'
I hope I see this hi the paper,.
INIR. X
'DEAR MR.: ° I hope soy, too.
And here's more. •
So, dear readers, this is wpat .
my Wail has been li)e! these: past
several days. •Your letters .prove
once again `there{is nothin e.,'.
,. l� w
under the
Sutn'--
and: I'Im ° nat
claiming that quote as Mine, For
all I. know it may have been said
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar
Guest, Robert Louis Stevenson
or the Widow Zander -^- and It
undoubtedly appearsrsomewhere
in the Eible,
CONFIDENTIAL' TO JUST
TESTING: Cold as a well -digger's
knee, eh? I_ -"dc n't.--think --she'd
'appreciate the comparison. Make
another card b>r forget.lt,.
—'HEALTH & SAFETY
Mainly for -Mother
by Carol. Hart
Follow Your Toddler and Learn
If one of the great pediatriciflns found it useful to know the work-
" of of a tnind,.surely a► mother would find 'it worthwhile, says
the Council on Family Health. .
Dr. Bela Schick was past his 99th year when he died, in 1967. Dtit'-
ing his life he develuped.the famous immunity test which.helped in
the, eonqu'cst of that. _dread chi}- 4.- •
dien'
-
dren's disease, diphtheria. He
leni'n'd tht• vnlue"of playing ‘ith
children to win their confidence.
And he told other doctors, "To be
a good pediatrician it helps to. be
a littlee childish yourself."
So be cl little childish yourself,.
advises the -Council un Family•
Health. a ,tun -profit organiitttion
sponsored t. a public service by,..
members Sof the drug' industry tri'
pruruote. home safety and family
health. 'fake part of it day to fol-
low, your toddler through the
house.
Notice° how a youngster loves
to explore, to touch. to test — and
perhaps' til °taste — everything
neta• to hint. You niay .find that
•fallowing in his footsteps will
" show you many things that may
be harmful to hint. =- especially
commonplace thing:: you use
every day..
Follow him to • .the bedroom,
Have pins, hairpins and 'eusinet-
its been put -away where he can-
not get at theta?' Are tttedicites
forgotten on the'ttight table? lte-
• ntcutber to put theme in their
proper storage' ldtcee• uttt'
reach +lino
In th�cgbathruotn you may+ n.ut-'•
flee that—
yuttr toddler is a clinthert
The' possibility of his climbing up
to explore' the • contents of the
medicine cabinet should remind.
vera to -move potentially toxic•
things to, a Storage •area which
he cannot reach:
la the kitchen, if he makes a
bee line for the stove, you may
cot tpliment yourself for having
turned fill pot 'handles toward the
back. Your ]tole explorer pray
open the dgor to the cabinet un-
der. the sink. This should remind
you to store potentially harmful
household chenti.igjtls such as
b��ir„lepches, polishes,; lye' and kern.:
seiit',hase liquids, and powders
on the high shelves of a cabinet,
or in a closet that a child cannot
Bret into.
One day of following your•tod-
dler, Mont, and bottle May he
safer• for your Wht,le family.
It's an unpleasant but undis-
puted fact " that most. of us in
today's material society envy
those who are making more
money than, we are.
•
I'm as guilty •as anyone else,
Simultaneously knowingthat
it's silly, But there's one breed
�."'ti doctors,...: -..that makes�.a
whole lot : more money than
iiaveine ei'lvy;• Doter•
Jug but admiration..
We've met some new" ones in
the past couple of weeks, and
they have confirmed my long -
held opinion ''that their's, is a
noble profession. :,
I know, I know., There are
some rotten apples in every
barrel. There are some doctors
who are interested only in the
buck,- There are- others who
wouldn't' take a night call even
If you were' dying. There are
4/the specialists who work office
hours only, and knock' off
$45,OQ0 a year. (Tried to get
an appointment with an eye
doctor lately? Takes months.)
But the" vast majority of- to-
day's doctors are just as deli-
'cated as their predecessors,
work just as hard and long, -
and are just as interested in
healing body arid `mind. And
proportionately,, in terms of te-
dax'. ..living costs, they're': no
dbette,.i1'•.�th���.thcY,,:.��acta:c:m;;,ctE:
First doctor l ever met, I
guess, was the one who deliv-'
Bred. me, and our acquaintance
was casual. Just a whack on
the „bum from him, and a
squall- of protest from' me.
When I was a kid, our family
doctor was - Dr. , 1agyard. He
was a massive .man .with a mas
s'ihe ca1m. When he arrived, at
any hour, , you 'felt a% though
God 'diad just taken over and
everything was O.K. ',In the
winter, he charged about the
country with 'a device of ' his
own creation, _ a- "Sort 'of, snow -
in ]bile built from a Model T
411
'Ford. In summer, his favorite
recreation was hitting fly balls
to the.°',outfielders ins -our' -pro-
baseball team. He copld , hit
them half, a Mile.'
°
In prison camp, I Diet a eOu-
p1e of dandie, One was.- eoa4
black, six -foot -six and reputed .
tQ�
be the sol of an .African
chief. I "(vent to hint.,' in some
d
perturbation- an. - -
he said; -"If
you' had that: excrescence on
ybur nose, you'd call it •a pian-
- .The other was a ginger -
haired British_ major, a sur-
geo). He was going around the .,
bend because there wasn't
enough surgery to keep his
hand in. When he had removed
all possible appendices and
tonsils, on the slightest provo-
cation, he -spent -most of- his
time sidling up to people and
asking if they'd been circum-
. cised.• We used to hide when
we saw him coming. to
When our kids came along,
both were delivered by a won-
derful doctor, Frank William-
son. Four o'clock in the morn-
, irig meant nothing to him.. He'd
he there, 'quiet and calm and
rational, in a flash. He grew
When we'carne here, we had
Bi11='Neill. He had 'a theory that
people needed only >'v n' hours
et)zaznight: ,grooved. :on
.^^-t•topical° dish zwantlLtatst-,ret cmd-
)o*s:
•�
.u,o',
keel; us
kicking
ers, didn't give <i hoot about
money, forgot to ,hill you, but
was always compassionate and
on the job when you needed
•
Now our fanuly doctor is a
quiet- Englishman with, .a coni-,;,
plete lack of the ;,affectation •
that the" odd IRtle-tin=goal type'
doctor assuines. He has a pro-
vensit'y for ,Clef strias carolling
outside your house with• his
'wife arid children; and has
learnedto play a creditable
trumpet.'
I've been curling with`a doe -
tor in his 70s- lately. I enjoy
his stories about the old days,
When -lie used a dog team to
cross .the bay, hoping .:here
wouldn't be a gap of open wa-
ter when he got • to the other -
side. He's a courtly gentleman. '
When we
picked • up our
daughter at the hospital re-
cently, we met ° nether species, -
of the breed: it tiingish, tough,
red -eyed from lack of sleep, he
took two hpurs, including his '
lune', hour, to talk to us, with --
out r -:ompense. He eared.
Ant one more. An eminecit
City specialist, who is married
to an old ,friend of -niy wife,
took time from his busy sched-
ule to check on Kim and allevi-
ate our fears. He didn't even
-know �i�ts. • "`"
•zp' ret 7fin .' bunch s.;.tlle ° -•
~f)o�es, -ro rty �expei•ience.-
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