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BY HELEN ALLEr'
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Marilyn is two,. a dear little girl. with a personality as
winning as her smile. She is Canadian -born and of Negro -
ancestry, tall for hep age, with big dark eyes, black curly
hair and smooth, dark skin.
MaIlI' ii " Was born -pr'en raturely:. She had -slight deformi-• ---
ties in her hands at birth —. an extra thumb on her right
hand and a missing index finger on her left. Surgery has
made her hands look almost normal and she uses them both
with ease and dexterity.
Thischild is a sy-going, happy and not at all shy. She
needs a loving, stimulating. home and parents who wilt,
welcome a sunny -tempered, bubbly young daughter.
To inquire about adopting Marilyn, please write to
Toddy's Child, Department of Social and Family Services,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto'182. In the' event of a postal
strike contact your Children's Aid Society.
James "Richardson St Sons Ltd
'Serving The Feed Dealers 'of Western Ontario
PHONE 524-8388, GODER,ICH
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Kid needs good wallo
DEAR ANN LANDERS: *Our
son married 'a very bright girl
who is working on her Ph.D. in
psychology. They live in another
city, which bis just as well. I'm
afraid we would not be on
speaking terms ; long, if. we saw.'
much of one another.
I realize the world is changing
and I am old fashioned, but have
things • changed sci, much that
six -year-olds are supposed to run
the household? My grandchild is
permitted to interrupt adults.in
mid -sentence,.. All "'table
-conversation' centres, around"
him. I .find it difficult to accept
a child -dominated dictatorship.
, The evening before "I left, the
boy's mother told him he, could
not watch any more TV because
he had to get up -.nd go to
school tite next morning. (It was
then 9:00. p.m.) The bo'y
shouted, "Go to hell, you are a
mean mother. 'I hope you die."
She, smiled and said, "Come to
bed, dear ---" and finally dragged
him from the room., screaming
and kicking — after 15 minutes
of arguing,
.Later, when we were alone, I
told my daughter-in-law that no
child should be permitted to
speak to.a parent that way. She
replied, "All children wish their
parents. dead at some time or
another. They should be allowed
to ' ventilate their feelings
without fear of punishment."
Of course, I didn't take
.psychology so I am a dumbbell.
..-What..do.you.say..aho.u.tw.this,.-.A.nn.
""L'anders?-PHILADELPHIA
DEAR ' PHIL: I did take
psychology, but maybe I'm also
a dumbbell because I would have
given that kid a wallop on the
behind. andlanded. him .in the
bedroom.
Children ' should work out
their anger but they must be
taught : to do so in- socially
acceptable ways. • Telling a
mother to go to hell and 'wishirfg
her dead should not be
tolerated. I'm afraid that.
grandchild of yours will have a
difficult time in a world that will
not tolerate such a mouth.
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
What is wrong with a person
who cannot be toll' a single
•
th• ing? No matter what tire news .
is; she has already heard it. When
I became pregnant with my last
child I phoned Sylvia from the
doctor's office. She said, "I
knew it." When I asked her`havv
she could have known► it when
, even I. didla't know, .sIW' replied,
"I ani very hunchy about such
things. I vas so sure you were •
pregnant when. we . played'. cards
last week that I mentioned it oto
Elsie." I was so furious when we'
finished talking that I had to
take a tranquilizer,
•
Yesterday I decided to
out -fox .her, I made up as lie
nothing that would hurt anyone,
just a wild story about someone
we both knew. Her eyes nearly
bugged out of her head. Then, in
that maddening smug way Which
I loathe she said, "I;heard it last
week.".
Is this a sickness or what? -Eve
never known anyone else wet?
does this, What's wrong with
her? — BEARER OF STALE
NEWS
DEAR BEARER: To be first
with the news is ,essential to
those who engage in the "game
called "One-Up-Manship." These
competitive ,personalities cap.not
bear to • be told anything. If
someone ,gels the news ahead of
them, they feel as 'if they have
been bested. I would not call it a
sickness, but it is certainly a
manifestation, of enormous
insecurity. . ''
CONFIDENTIAL TO FADED
GARDENIAS IN A BROKEN
VASE: What you are tired of
isn't love. It's battle' fatigue
caused by too much
togetherness. Why don't you
two take a vacation from each
other?
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PICNICS ARE.
GREAT FUN.-. •
BUT DON'T
LFT FOOD
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COLD " $FLOW 35°F.
There's something ' basically
piggish about :than.
He wants' to get ' his 'snout
into that trough, and devil take
the runt who can't wiggle his
hum in there, because , the
landscape in front of him is
one of solid bums, harder to
break through than a, cement
wall. '
When you Igok.at the size of
Canada, , and then at the popu-
la .ion figures, •it's difficult to
believe that Canadians felel
they can't get at the trough,
that many of them feel. like the
runt of the litter. Yet , thou-
sands do:
Many of them feel, as the
010 rural expression has it,
that "they're sucking the hind .
tit." Tit is a short, but perfect-
ly decent, synonym for teat:
The _ hind one is' the one the
runt gets, if he gets any.
This is rather a long-winded=
prelude to my major proposi-
tion: That thousands of city -
dwellers are desperate to get
away 'from it all, out of the
sm2g a,nd the concrete can-
yons, into the wild green yon-
der.
For• practical reasons, they
must, in most cases, live in the
city, or exist there. That's
where they make a living,
where their children will have
'the best schools, where their
friends are. But they don't like.
it.
Obvious solution ' Buy ' a"
,summer cottage. , Many do.
But even there, one does not
escape from the throngs, the
cramped feeling. Cottages are,
mainly, stuck _cheek byv. jowl.
Boats and motorcycles in sum-
mer, - snowmobiles in• inter,
pollute the air with stink and'
noise. Added hazards in winter
are the roof breaking in under
snow, and local hoodlums
breaking 'in under booze:
Also, for mary, the cost of a
waterfront lot and cottage are
simply out or reach.'Have you
tried to pick up a -nicely -treed,
sand -beach water lot lately?
Figure on $5.0 a foot for any-
thing decent. Add a cottage,
drill' a well, paw taxes and .up -
,keep; and you have to be pret-
ty well-heeled even to consider
'it.
Accordingly, mane city deni-
zens' of- modest means are buy-
ing a chunk of land right in
the country,. anything .from 10
to 50 ' acres. In some areas
within a couple of hours drive,
one can still buy "land" for
$50 an 'acre. Thus, instead 'of
socking $5,000. ,into a 100 -
foot water lot, you can have
your own ten -acre empire for
$500.
European immigrants are
particularly interested in such
land, because they didn't have
a hope of buying an acre at
home. ,t,nless=wealthy. ,
• This land is usually sub -mar-
, marginal, or worse, Bat there -
seems to be a basic` instinct to
own some land, even though it
won't grow anything but. rocks
and Christmas trees. Just to be
able to pace around and say:
"This is mine. Nobody can take
it -away from me." 'And the
sheer delight of posting "No
Trespassing" 'signs, around
your domain!
A man's home used to be his
castle. Now it's his prison. But
he can have an estate in the
"' country.
It's an ideal set-up for a man
with 'a young family. Prefera-
bly be sould be handy with
tools. He can buy his chunk of
----junk-and.-spend. a. couple of
-years ust--gu ng -tip-off 'week-
ends and vacations, tenting
'and clearing a hole in , the
scrub brush for, his shack.
And if he's smart, it will .be,
•Tho.„.
lie
at first, Just ,that — ,a: shack.
Nektr mind the, three . bed,
rooms. Bang in some bunks,
Nev, ° mind the' big stone fire"
place. Get a good wood stove, •:
Over the years, 'he,uran. add
to the place, untilt• eventually,
he will have a snug' retirement,
home Nq.,,traffie problems.', No
pollution. No punks, NQ pea-
ple. Small tax bills A place to
putter, to meditate.,
Sound silly?' ' Maybe; But'
with the new leisure age ereep4
ing upon us, it makes more
sense than taking on a huge
Mortgage- tit 10 per cent,
which will be paid off eight
years after you dig.' - -
Ideally, the property would
have a small stream . loaded'
With fat trout, a deer run, huge
patches of " wild berries. Really
istically, it will 'be impossible
to, get water.when you drill
your well, the land will be,"',,
infested by rattlesnakes or rok
dents, .and smothered in net-
'ties and poison oak. .But , we
can't have everything.
I'm tempted myself. Any
chuckling, gleaming -eyed farm-
er want' to get rid of 5Q acres
of rock and swamp for $10 an
acre
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