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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-12-10, Page 16841/4 (,4 *RIM SIGNALFAR, THLTRSDAY, DFOgIVJBE 100970 DenniS looks ready to burst into tears. So he was, because he was under orders to sit still for the photographer — which didn't suit this active little boy at all. At '17 -months, Dennis is a healthy boy of German and Canadian -Negro background. He has big brown eyes, soft ,black curls, and olive skin. His favorite occupation is climbing the stairs. He doesn't know how to get down, though, so he is frequently marooned till someone comes to his rescue. Dennis is a lovable child, generally happy. He gets along well with the children in his foster home, but can be quite determined about what he wants to do. ,He is suspi- cious of strangers 1t once. he gets to know theni, he is quite friendly. , To inquire about adopting Dennis please write to To- day's Child, Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182. For general adoption' information ask your Children's Aid Society. 1 • James Richardson & Sons Ltd Serving The Feed ,Dealers of Western Ontario PHONE 524-8388, GODER1CH Ann Landers Young and insane DEAR ANN LANDERS: I am 16 and on the brink of insanity. My parents fight night and day. If it was just "hOrmal figh,cigg — yelling and like that — I could stand it, but it isn't. My mother usually ends up in the hospital. My father drinks a lot and has been fired from two good jobs this past year because he was canght hiding liquor in his locker. When he gets drunk he gets mean and goes on a rampage. Mom left him five years ago when he broke her jaw and kiroeked out ,almost all her teeth. As soon as her jaw healed they were like honeymooners. Six -weeks later Mom was back in the hospital with a broken shoulder. One day she hates Dad and the next day she loves him. This has been going on as long as I can remember. I dread coming home from school because I never know what I'm going to find. Last night they had another terrible fight and Dad put a chair through the TV screen. This morning Mom says - she is„ divorcing him because ihe is sick in the head and she can't take any more of it. How can I make sure she goes through with it this time? — LONG ISLAND TEEN DEAR TEEN: They are BOTH sick in the head. Your • father is an alcoholic and your mother is as sick as he is or she wouldn't be living with him. I'm going to recommend three organizations — one for your father, one for your mother, and one for you. Your father needs Alcoholics Anonymous. They won't come to him, however — he will have to go to them. If he wants to know where A.A. meets he can 'find the number in the phone book., Your mother needs Al -Anon. For information she can write to: Al -Anon, , Family Group Headquarters, 1Mf.S 1tZ 3tA =71 3t513tla 3v:a F5S ;WS 7:A ;WS .1t5A Szt1,1 771729A ;WA ItIgUa5i }7. GODERICH DISCOUNT CENTRE mqst wonderf iat minu e SaVi n A g ON THE WIND GIFX,SET FROM A 1.79 s ever Inc. P.O. Box 182, Madison Square Station, New York, N.Y. 10010. You need Al-Ateen, an organization for teenagers whose parents have a booze problem. Write to the Al -Anon. "Family address in care of Al-Ateen. DEAR ANN LANDERS: You've printed letters from parents (usually mothers). who are concerned about overweight children (usually, daughters). You suggest psychological help. This letter is from a father HEALTH & SAFETY Ivho is 'worried about a 19 -year-old overweight son. The kid looks like a stuffed sausage but refuses to aceept help. What's the solution? — TALKED -OUT DAD DEAR DAD: Your signature told me more than your letter. Quit tallsing. This could be why your son continues to overeat. No parent ever talked an ,ounce off an,, overweight son or daughter. When you quit talking, the kid might quit over -eating. Mainly for Mother C4xol Hart Get Ready For Holiday Hazards When the house is full of -family an guests. when the home is charged with excitement, when the rest is in the oven and fra- grances of the corning feasA fill the house—that's holiday time. Make sure it isn't also accident time. Your preparations to entertain ants feed your guests are not com- plete,until.you have deliberately 4 taken action to prevent acciden- tal injury, and learned some- thing about coping with it if it should happen. Store all medicines in the med- icine cabinet. Check to see that no one has left medicines in reach of little children. . Store all household cleaners, polishes, solvents,. glues, paints and garden and insect sprays out of reach of youngsters. If, dtspite all your efforts, there is an accidental ingestion of a toxic substance, he prepared to give first aid. Here are what - to -do suggestions from the Coun- cil on Family Health, a non- profit organization sponsored as a public service by leading mem- bers of the drug industry. In all cases of poisoning': 1. Call doctor, hospital, poison control center, or rescue unit PR9MPTLY. 2. Dilds_poison by giving water, one or two glassfuls. 3. Make patient vomit, if so di- rected, BUT NOT IF: • Patient is unconscious or is having fits. • Swallowed poison was a strong corrosive, (lye, strong acid, drain cleaner,.etc.) • Swallowed poison contained kerosene, gasoline or other petroleum distillates (unless it contains dangerous pesti- cide as well, which must be removed). 4. Directions for making patient vomit: • Give one tablespoonful (one- half ounce) of syrup. of ipe- cac for persoris over one i( 1 ) • year of age, plus at least .• -one cup of watiT?:',If no vom- iting •occurs after 20 min- utes, this dose may he re- peated one time only. • If no ipecac syrup is avail- . able, try to make plent - vomit by tickling balk of • throat with spoon handle or siilar blunt object after giving water.4 • Do not waste time waiting for vomiting, but transport patient, if indicated, to a medical facility. Bring pack- age or container with intact label. t y s cvs Isat oum s mamas% t ---.--x•1 o a a tIsat t?pt Iv telit vg vs o a mi tit tait Saga of the scratched coffee table F It's one'of those days. A wild, white yonder outside the win- dow, snowing and blowing as though we'd never seen the stuff before and-otn so eone was trying 0,s to impress . And just ,two days after som nit of a cab driver told me sagely, "Sure looks like we're gonna have a green Christ- mas." We're redecorating the living - room. It's 30 x 18 x 10. Move all the junk out of that' crypt to paint and there's no place else- where in the house in which you can draw a deep breath witholit carving in some ribs against an upturned chair or a book -case with its feet sticking out. Everything's gone fairly smoothly, but my wife is Olightly hysterical about one slip. For two years she's been bellowing at the kids to keep their rotten bare feet off her new -mahbgany coffee table. (Nobody, of course, adalts included, is allow- ed to put a cup of coffee on the coffee table.) This morning she' found that the painters had put a gouge about a foot long and a quarter - inch deep in that virgin territory. She's suffering' as much pain as though someone had taken a can -opener and. put a gouge of similar dimensions in her own skin. . I offer all sorts of comtort, like, "Well, now we can put our ieet on it," or "Nobody'll notice that, when it's covered with coffee cups," but the result is more like throwing bil on fire than on troubled Waters. The phone hasift been work- ing for two clays:Tor me, this is .unmitigated bliss. But the old lady is utterly convinced that all sorts -df people have been calling us about a death in the family, Lord forbid, or a birth in the family, Lord doubly forbid. That's the in -calls. I never call anybody. But without the out - calls, she feels as helpless as a fe- male with both arms in". a asling, and a back zipper to be zipped. I've got a knee like an elephant. One of my old foot- ball -war knees has decided to start me off on a merry winter, and is swollen right down to an ankle like a piano leg. It began with curling too vigorously. But it didn't help By Sill Smiley that I went, to the local ball -of - the -year on Friday night with a game leg, and danced a • lot gamier than I shotild have. With an elastic bandage and pain pills, I manage to get about, just lame enough so that I can't possibly help woith moving furni- ture. You should see that wife of mine manhandling a grand piano all by herself, with me helping by grunting. I doubt if she's lost ten pounds in the last two days. Just to make it a truly joyous day, Marking exam papers. This is something like the, Chinese water torture. Drop by drop, it-- pierces your skull that you never were, are not, and never will be able to teach any- body anything more than to tie his shoelaces. All I have learned today is that "prostitute" is now spelled "prosecute", that "savagery" has become "savagism" and that a fellow who, flies an aircraft is a "piolit". However, I am not complain- ing. The painting is finished. My knee feels much better now that the furniture is all moved back. It has stopped snowing as I've written. The phone company has been able to break through. The old girl has forgotten her despair over the gouge by spotting a bump in the plaster. And I just marked an exam paper worth 90 per ant. . Because of the dgmce, I have a new suit, first in six years, new shoes, new gloves. Quite smash- ing, really. I don't have to go back to the dentist for two days. The cat is spayed. The snow tire S are oh. My wife, who predicted her own death by noon, is alive and wel and snarling commands. Not a bad old life, really. Bet ter here than the graveyard, though I could use some of that rest. If only it weren't eternal. The Argyle Syndicate N Me OLD Mgr 4 Ai, the moo sirao matt wals Misfkiroirw-ailys AVM JOE'S BP Service Station and Coffee Shop 411 Huron Rd., Goderich 5246871 tt - _ _ FOR YOUR AUTO INSURANCE MALCOLM -MAINERS GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT 46 WEST ST. 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