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- DEAR ANN LANDERS: 1
wonder if kids who use drugs
ever give a thotight to what life
is like for their parents. I can
tell you, because we have a
19 -year-old boy who is
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'This bright-eyed baby is Tommy, not yet four months
old. He is stockily built, nicely rounded,in excellent
• .health, with gray -blue eyes, dark brown hair and 'fair sldn.
Background information on Tomm31' is limited, except that
be is part Canadian Indian. '
Tommy is an alert child, extremely responsive. He loves
attention, laughing and gurgling at every one who comes
near. He is very strong and sturdy, and likes to be in a
- nrlis„jumper so he can_watch:ivhatever isf„going on.
Butte---ir-not-demanding-obvhtusly-quite-able to WO -
himself enterta.ined.
• This appealing baby will'be a delightfulson for a,family
-wanting a _handsome, healthy boy ,and who Will not be
- concerned 'over limited information on jiis background.
To inquire aboutadopting Tommy please write to
Today's .Child, Department of Social andyamlly Services,
•, Parliament Buildings, Toronto- 182. For general adoption
informiation ask your Children's Aid Society.
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James Richardson & Sons Ltd
'Serving The ,Fe6d Dealers ,of Western Ontario
PHONE 524-8388, G0DERICH
We .die a little each day as
we watch this „brilliant,
„affectionate lad slip away from
us, an inch at a. time. It :is -
torture. to • ,listen to his
incoherent babbling,
impossible to follow the •
reasoning of his drug -bent
- mind that has -lost its power' to
reason. We don't attempt to
respond to his wild accusations
because we know it's not he
talking. He is as far removed
from himself as he is &Om us.
He can't stay in school and
he can't hold 4 job. We give
him money because if we
didn't, he would steal, maybe
even murder to suppOrt his ,
habit. Heroin is his drug -and
it's expensive.
'When Diu. boxlis_avarfrorn
mily.ileitith„,and-Saiety Concern; or Bride
$tLillfeff% 1 lirevg:05r- cirnutO4r:aliCetialitil?n, for
the boy than it is for you, Be
needs someone to take- him
over and it Is your
responsitaility to find that
person,
DiAR", , ANN LANDERS: My
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husband and I have been arguing,
since Christmas. The argument
will go on until the 4th Of July
unless &e .get an outsider to
settle it.
My •in-laws gave our
six-year:old boy a fancy set of
toy guns for Christmas. They are
not cheap, plastic things—they
are Well made hind frighteningly
real. I do not wait our so ill to
play with guns, nor do I want
—HEALTH &
SAFETY -
him to get the idea that killing is
fun. My husband says t am
crazy—that cowboys and Indian!.
are part 'cot' our American
heritage 'and shooting games are
a healthy •• outlet for growing
boys. • What do you.
say?—DOVER SOLES
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• DEAR SOLES: If • Your
husband is standing on one foot,
Waiting for me to O.K. toy guns,
• he'd better sit down. Per energy
• outlets, 1 recommend running,
b aseb al I p1aying •
drums,
ice-skating, swimming—the list is
endless. If your husband doesn't
want to take my' word' for it,
• suggest he read Milton
Eisenhower's report on violence.
Mainly for MotherS
by Carol. Hart
the house Chere is a kind of
peace -- but •it is unral. We
worry about him every waking
moment. • Has he killed
someone in. his tar? Has he
burned down a building with a
carelessly thrown =fah? Is he,
in jail or. in- a hospital? Is he
dead from an overdose? Did he
walk out of a tenth ,story
window — as his best friend
did ale* months ago?
We are exhausted from
anxiety, tired of protecting
him from' the neighbors, his
_former friends and the police.
• We -are' beaten to ourknees,
hoping some miracle will save
him. But we don't believe in
miracles any more. We are lost
and bewildered. Can youhelp
us? — SCARS IN
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DEAR SCARS: When
parents- provide free 'room and
board, give .•_a by money for
ditigs and protect him against
the police, they peretuate his
. habit. Your son needs help and
he needs it now. Put him in the
hand's of a physician. Thereare
substitutes for hero,in which
can help get him off the hard
Certainly a new bride and brid
possible a family doctor who can b
history and keep tabs on their 4
growing family.
Keep your physician's phone
number on the telephone together
With any others you need in an
emergency — your pharmaist,
your fire and police deprtments,
and your local hospital.
Thecouncil on Family Health,
a non-profit organization spon-
sdred as a public service by lead-
ing members of the drug indus-
try to premote home safety and
family health; suggests that the•
new bride establish good safety •
habits on the storage, care" And
-se of medicines.
vone - seifetY,
rules for every homemaker:
1. Plan the contents of your
medicine chest. Keep Medicines
and toiletries in separate cabi-
l'ets, or- if they must be kept,in
ono cabietstore' medicines on
the upper shelves and toiletries
on lower shelves.
2. Divide the medicine section
into two parts — one for Medi-
cines that are to be taken intern-
ally, and the other for those
medicines that are applied ex-
ternally.
3. Take inventory of the con-
tents of the cabinet at least once
every six months, Discard medi-
cines with damaged or unread
egrOom should selegt as soon as
ecome faMiliarwith their medical
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able labels. Flush discarded med,
eines down the drai. If you have
any doubt about discarding a
medicine, consult your physician.
4. Just as the manufacturer.
physician and pharmacist have
their respdnsibility in respect to
medicines, the use of medicinal
preparations involves responsi-
bility on the part of the user.
One important thing to remem-
lher:dead the label at least three
times when takingor giving med.
Lcinest(, your family.
. OODERICti SIN'Alir8AR, Tilliff,SIKV, JuLy 23, W10, 5A
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• by Bill Smiley
high sUmMes, with a hot
sun, a blue . sky and Perfect •
conditions for sitting • at the
picnic tab1e". typing this column.
Rut there's something wrong
onething off-key.
It took me a whil, but I've
got it: histead of the lush weir
jungle that usecl to encompass
bur backyard, there are splotch.
et 6f color everywhere, destroy-.
ing the scilid green effect I'M so
used to.
My wife has been off on
another of her wild, off-seaon
ursts-, like doing the spring,
house-cleaning the week before
Christmas.,
It all began With •one rose.
She received a large rose -bush„
ready for planting, as a gift.Our
rose bed, like the rest of out
flower beds, was suffering sevi•
erely from • malnutrition and
neglect. They were like children
who undergo the same treatment.
— •stunted and retarded, Our
oses had shrunk to thre, one
dead, one dying and onewhich
produced ab,out two tiny, blooms
,.a year.
In a fit, of ill-onsidered fug
after some barbed remark from
my wife, I Went out and dug up
the lot and planted the new one.
• I should have put it quietly in
the tool -shed and let it die a
natural death.
. It onlY took the one log to
break the jam, The rose was a
beauty. it looked so lovely and
-so lonely that .the old lady, no
gardener, sent me out to buy
another. I got a dandy for fifty
cents, age, sex, color and kind
unknown, but dubious,
The boss was disgusted, but
.we %planted the thing anyway..
Then -she -bought -two 2710re and
stuck thein in, with peat moss,
fertilizer and invocations to the
gods.
thought that might bring a
little peace, but she'd caught
fire. In a flurry,of self -disgust,
she went at her window -box like
,a wolf coming down oil the fald.
, It wasa dilapitdated object thati
runs along the side atthe garage.
• 1 rather liked it as it had been
for Several years, with the fresh,
green weeds spilling down 'over
the side Rut- there was no
reasoning with her'''. •
carload of zinnias, begonlas'and
other4ewildring things. Work-
ing as carefully 4$ a surgeon, so
the window -ho wouldn't fall,
off She wall, She planted it and
gave it a coat of paint._
But we had $9,1110 nOWOraUft
OM. That meant I had to dig up
a corner of another crumbling
flowerbed, and wekplanted the
leftovers -i wa§ confident this
was the end. She 'hasn't 'even
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week, either froKthe'haSte with,
whih they've' been ripped from
the womb and thrown into life,
or four* simple drowing., •
liked the Old jungle, ,with
the odd tiger lily struggling up
through the milkweed Or a few
hardy dames reaching for the.
sup. Why can't women leave
things alone?
The AroYie ii/r1000:4t
pulled a weed for, yeai.
No such, luck. Blazing with
enthusiasm, or simple 'insanity,
she shot me off for another
• carload, zinnis.
Ry the time I et/timed, she had
weeded the fronr:half of our
moribund tulip bed. Sfie had dug
little holes and set in them a
handsome •mw of .oange and
yellow marigolds in half an hour.
An instant gaden.
. Now she hasher eye 6n the
old peony bed. 9nce a mass of
4reen and bloom, it has shriel-
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led :to •a few sickly ilants
producing eight blooms. It Seems . °ky
it is tb be dug upand completely
, replanted with another '-exotic
speies. 4 •
,With all this new beauty, of
course, we hadto buy a new
• water -sprinkler. The old one wa
perfectly all right. It ccrst $2.9
ten years ago and water would
• still come out of it, though it
didn't really sprinkle' anrmore,
just shot out two jets in opposite
directions. New one, 311.00.
Shes fascinated,, and keeps me
moving it about all day, -,from
one flower bed to another. "No,
no. Move it another two inches
to the right."
• It's 'all ridiculous; of course.
Even 1 know that you don't
plant flower beds in the nuddle —
• Df„.juiy-Theym
YOu have to, see danger tO
avoid i, the Ontaro,, Safety
(League reminds all driver!. !COW.,
windshieldS rind Win0*S. A'S
.froin. Shish, '„ ice and
condensation. 'Rementher
• particularly "; that an obscutIffi
rear window' cuts , dowit your
knowledge ?if what is happening
behind, and it • makes 18
• difficult for following traffic to
see what is happening ahead. •
Says:
'k't 111,0'9/
WHAfrikRELESS Mot
PEIkkON BURNED
liOWN MY HOME'
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Out came the weeds as if they
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