The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-11-12, Page 16• 4A iGODERICH $IGNAL:STAR, THU .11SDAY ,NOY,ENPER 12,1970
Ann Landers
BY HELEN ALLEN
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Anthony• looks, shyly at the photographer because it
usually takes this young fellow a few 'minutes to decide to
make friends. He .is a bit timid in new situations, too, but
when this wears off he is happy and affectionate.
You can see . that Anthony at two -and -a -half is a very
handsome child. Those big eyes are blue, his light -brown
hair is pure gold in the summer and he has fair skin. He is
in excellent health. His background is French. Canadian and
Anglo-Saxon. He likes. music and loves to see and hear
. .
bands.
From being almost toiidocile, Anthony is gaining inde-
pendence in the encouraging atmosphere of a big, lively
foster family. He needs parents with the warmth and
understanding to appreciate a sensitive little boy.
To inquire about adopting Anthony please write to
Today's Child, Departnient of Social and Family' Services,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182. For general adoption
information, 'ask your Children's Aid Society.
James Richardson & Sons Ltd ,
Serving The Feed Dealers of Western Ontario
PHONE 524-8388, GODERICI-1.
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Funny Nettie
DEAR ANN LANDERS: My
story goes back 70years .when
my sister Nettie was 12 years
' old. She tried to kill a neighbor
girl with a knife.. Nettie had a
fierce temper and c'oulcin't get
along with tinyhody. We kids
Were told, "I5eep quiet. We
don't want it known that Nettie
is funny." When Nettie was 18
she married -an older man. Their
baby by cried a -lot. One night
Nettie beat the baby until he
died. Our parents begged her
husband not to say anything
because they didn't want it
known that "Nettie was funny."
Every pet they ever had died
"mysteriously." One day
Nettie's husband went to my
dad and said he was going to
commit Nettie to the state
mental hospital because she was
out of her head, sure' as the
world. Dad talked him, out of it.
Nettie's favorite hobby was
writing poison pen letters. She
publicly accused her nephew of
murder, broke up his marriage
and caused so much family
trouble I could write a book
about it.
Today Nettie is 82 and still
"funny." We, her family who
have protected her all these
years, share the guilt for all the
hideous things she has done. I
hope every reader who has,-
-someone "funny" in the family
will learn from our sad
experience. — REGRETS IN
MICHIGAN
DEAR MICHIGAN: %Thanks
to the work of the • National
Association of Mental Health
and othe,r far-seeing
organizations, people need no
longer hide "funny:: relatives in
the attic. Your letter exemplifies
the progress that has been made
in this area and I thank You for
writing.
DEAR ANN LANDERS: I
need your opinion. My daughter
has a fine husband and three
children. They live next door to
us, which -I see!now was 'a big
mistake. The mistake was mine.
They were here first. We moved
next door to them because the
house , was exactly the size we
were looking for and it has
baseboard heat.
•Our daughter Bonnie spends
all her spare time over here. I
mean evenings, Stmdays and
holidays. Yo4'd think she was a
single girl instead of a married
woman. Bonnie says she . just
loves my cprnpany. I am
fluttered that she enjoys me so
much because most of my
friends, never see or hear from
their married children. In fact
this o' is what - they mostly.
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complain about. I love . my
daughter, but I feel she should
.stay in her own house and let -me
alone.
If you .have any advice on
how I can solve this problem, I'd
like to. have it. — TOO MUCH
DAUGHTER
DEAR TOO" .MUCH: , Find
another house, in another part
of ,town' if possible, and don't
worry about Whether or not it
has baseboard heat..Move:
—HEALTH & SAFEJY
Mainly for Mother
13)., Carol Hart
Fire and Children Don't Mix
• Never underestimate the povler o
• in the hands of little children i
iniury and even death in the home.
The Council on Family Health,
a non-profit organization estab-
lished by members of the drug
industry to 'promote , family
health and home safety, suggests
some ways of preventing acci-
dents caused by heat and flames
in the home
Never leaye little Children
alone at home, no matter what
the urgency.
Never eaxe small children
alone in a room with a heater
going, a burning fireplace, or
lighted cb.ndles. Children are fas-
cinated, by flames.
When you have finished iron-
ing, place the hot iron where it
cannot be touched by little chil-
dren. Coil the cord nearby, out
of reach of little hands.
Clothes of fire resistant ma-
terials help provide some protec-
tion, but care should be exercised
wherever heat is used in the,
home. Some clothing materials.
are so highly flammable they can
burn to ashes ' in an instant.
Other materials melt and burn
into the body.
Heaters should have protective
covers, and be located where
members of .the family cannot
brush againgt them. Fireplaces
should be screened and the en-
tite family should keep a safe
distance from the hearth.
Burning candles should _ be
snuffed out before everyone
leaves a room.
f a match.
t can become an instrthrent of
Keep cigarette lighters and
matches out of reach of young-
sters. Many a parent has beef'
surprised to discover a child
under five is strong and skillful
enough to flick a lighter, or strike
a match.
It takes only an instant for a
fire to start. The presence of a
responsible adult in the home
can be the best guard against
children playing with fire, ad-
vises the ' Council on Family
Health. "
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'Fig leaves
By Bill Smiley
I have just got home from softie -
thing as rare and delightful as a
personally condubted tour of
Buckingham Palace — a teachers'
staff meeting that lasted dnly,„
half an hour. This is .equivalent
to building the Pyramids in three
weeks. -
Meetings, as such, are a parti-
cular annex in hell' for -anyone
who has 'beerr„in.-the newspaper
business and attended at teal
one, 'and sometimes two, every
working day of the year..-
.Ninety-five percent' of meet-
ings are unnecessary, unenlight-
ening, and unproductive. They
are the refuge of bores of both
sexes, who take out their per-
sonal frustrations by 'frustrating
everyone else. These people have
their little, dirikie : Raising
points of order; mbving amend-
ments to the motion; -and hag-
gling for interminable times over
items that could be solved in
eight seconds by a three-year-old
with two heads.
Occasionally, a meeting pro-
duces sparks, a clash, a conflict
of .personalities or ,ideas that
light the Stygian gloom. I well
remember one town council
meeting. One of the councillors,
somewhat the wear for some-
thing or other, called one of the
other councillors, "a gibbering
old baboon." A nice thrust.
He wasn't too far off the
mark but was in no condition
himself to hurl such charges. The
offended party promptly started
peeling off his jacket, and Offer -
..ed to, thrash- the other "within
' an inch of your life" The other
councillors, and even the -mayor,
quailed. Chiefly, because both
councillors were well into the
seventies. I might add that the
only blood shed was verbal. -But
that was a meeting.
`‘Staff meetings are not quite
that bad, but they inevitably
produce in me a headache so
fierce that only a great dollop of
some sedative beverage can allay
it.
I've seen adults haggling bit-
terly for hay an hour over the
chewiricof gum. Where if could
be che,wed, when' it should be
chewed, and how it should be
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chewed (open mouth or closed.)
The -only result was that the kids
went on blithely. chewing gum,
wherever, whenever and however
instead of
slacks
they could get away with it.
Deep moral, social and tow-
chological issues are involved in
a problem of this magnitude. Is
gum bad for tlfe teeth? What do
you do if you send a kid to the
office, he removes his gum on
the way, and swears angelically
that it was the teacher's imaginetiOn, thatlhelyas really chewing
his cud out of sheer. nervous-
ness? Is it better for the student
to chew gum ,than' to chew his
fingernails down to the blood?
"Jesus wore long hair and a.,
beard, didn't he?" How do you
counter this one (a favorite, by
the way, among male students)?
Do' you say, "Oh, well, uh,
Jesus, uh: THROW THAT GUM
IN THE BASKET!" Or would
you say, "O.K., Buster, turn that
blackboard into an ouija board."
This particular staff meeting
was about 'girls wearing slacks.
Human .experience has showed
that girls will wear whatever
other girls are wearing. And girls,
these days, are wearing slacks,
They are comfortable; they can
look smart, they are warm in our
frigid winters, they prevent boys
from peeking up the stairs as the
girls ascend in mini -skirts, and
they have probably contributed
more to containing the popula-
tion explosion than the old-
fashioned hight-dress.
Anyway, 1 expected a mara-
thon. About three "hours, They
can wear slacks, but only once a
week. They can wear slacks, but
they can't wear blue jeans. No-'
body in my class is going to wear
slacks. If it's all right for the
boys to wear blue jeans, why
can't the girls. And so on.
It was fantastic, but the open-
ly, and bluntly expressed feeling
of the majority was that girls
should be allowed to wear what-
ever was in. style. And that was
that.
One commercial teacher, who
could- have been expected to
come down heavily on the side
,Lof "no slacks," said ghe didn't
Ilkare if they wore ' fig leaves as
long as they were !'neat and
tidy."
a, I'd like to hear what you
think about long hair, girls wear-
ing slacks, and all the other
things that were Unacceptable in
our day. Drop a line.
Thi Argyle Syndicate
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