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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-12-09, Page 261Y,OODE1110ft SIGNAL -STAR,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 197* -TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN minammannomonnor TotnntoTelegram Syndicate Don't 164k at her! Dear Ann Landers: 1 married into a very peculiar, family. My husband is the only sane one in the *bunch and sometimes I'm -- not too sure about .him. Jt's his aunt that bothers me the most. This woman has ,a habit of licking the corners of her mouth just before she speaks. Her tongue is abnormally long and when she does that little Licking bit4edrives me up the wall. I try not to look at her but it seems like :she waits now until my.eyes are on her before-she.doeS it, Please don't suggestthat Isask her to quit it. I have done so but it hasn't helped. Last night when I brought it to her attention again she said, "If itbothers you so much maybe you shouldn/t be in my company." That's no solution. If I stayed away from -----aet,144.1o4 lot..beeause the social life of't}this entire gr9up is centered around relatives. Any advire?—Creepy , Dear 'Louise.. Your bestbet is Jotry not to look at her, or when she licks the corners of her Mouth, lick the corners of yours = sort of in retaliation. She may Or may noenotice, but-fIlbet it will make you feel better. ' through. Funny how I 'never gae them a thought,. In fact FiXL tkiiikitlg- about a lot of -things 1 never thought,: about before. I am typing this on a portable typewriter the nurse ,has put on the, food tray. 'Please correct,thetlmistakes and print it. Thanks, Ann. -Boston • Dear Reader: Here's your letter. -I-appreciate the trouble you went through to write it. If just a few kids listen it will be worth the effort. I'm pulling for, y ou 4 * * Ann Landers: Someone on a talk show in Ohio made the statement that the,letters you d� not use in youreolumn are sold to soap -opera writers and they base their stories on them. Is thi§ '-true? 1 would like to see your ar"twer•in print. You•owe our readers • an explanation. --- Louella M, • Dear L.M.: No, it is nottrue:, The letters written to nie are .handled. in the strictest or. •confidence. They do not -leave my 'offiee and no one has 'access • to them except Myself .and rny secretaries. All letters are destrbyed after they a're. read 'and, answeredt have an , understanding with i-nY staff that . • - --, - nor information pertaining to the ' .. Dear Ann Landers: 'I'm mail is to .be discussed outside writing this letter from a•rnental . ' hospital. Pthe office. I feel a' moral fix do your best to , 'fix it up for the column. I have obligation to keep the identity of all who write me in strict something to say to all kids who think they can mess around with confidence. drugs and come out o.k. Some * * * .can, but some can't: I'm i' - . 15 -year-old girl who is strung , bear Ann. Landers: Our .. out from one trip. Maybe I'm daughter is being:married soon washed up'- for keeps. The and I want to, check something doctors don't know yet. It seems. outwith you, A friend told me ' • like somRthing has happened to she had a story, about you which my eyes. said that „wilien your daughter " I started blowing grass two mried yciiii gave her the key to years ago and it didn't Efq much- your home ind..told her to use it for me. .We called it tee any time but you wOuld.not visit "Don't -Give -a- Damn -Weed" and her except by iinvitatio,n; your that's, abbut the best description reasoning was that' once a I know of. Last week a' daughter marries, she is the head 17 -year-old boy talked me into of her own home and her , trying LSD. He Said -he's -been -On- '47113`tner -141(3414----be--- 'an- invited a couple dozen trips and4tpwas a guest. True or false? -Yakima, wild gtooire. The greatest. My Wash. first trip will be my last. It was a Dear Yak.: Like most bummer _and I'm fightifig, like second-hand stories, it is. only "'crazy to make itbaelt. I felt as if half true. I told, my daughter I was riding on the' back of a when Al..e trigrried that I would rocket and suddenly the rocket tievef-drbp in on her uninvited exploded, and me with it. and that we were to be guests in My 'folks have heen one , another's . home. That wonderful.'I only hope I can get titisiniss'about giving her a key is nonsense. 'Mothers are entitled , it all together and make up fOr the - hell - I'm . putting them, to privacy. too. .• 0 s, • ay yourself first! Wise men through,the ages have pointed out that the .sure route to security and wealth is to nut aside money for • tomorrow be are you Spend for today. O Your future must be the first-eall,on your purse, , The unthancrincr-habii of regular savings deposits at your friendly Victoria and Grey Trust where you get high interest rate and no charge for a reasonable number of cheques is -your -assured route to financial independence. Start saving today at Victoria and Grey. The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. VICTORIA and GREY "Bright Old happy— • - Finding° comfort ina • duck blind "November gloorns are bar- • ren • beside, „ the dusk of ,Juni." Thus, xjuoth-the: poet. - .„Henley. And 1 say too ruddy true. As a general rule. But this year has been an elceptien, 1 dOn't think I've ever written a decent word about Novem,ber, with its "surly'blasts" its sudden, depressing dumping of snow, it, bleak and sterile look. I know we're going to pay for ,it a ,,terrible. winter, but this November, for the first time in many years, we've been ushered into winter with a gentle melancholy that seems un- believable. By , the time this appears in print, we may be up to, our noggins in 'snow. But 64 credit where it is due. The first few weeks of Novem- ber this year, in'these parts, have made me decide to give this country and its crazy climate one more chance. •Its almost as though. God had held up his hand as the four • winds were on their. mark, cheeks puffed, ready to give us the usual, and boomed, "Hold. The poor devils are having enough trolibles-trf-t heir own-rn-alc- ing. Let's give them one. November toremember," Normally, N'overnber is - the most disMai-month in, 'the year, with the possible exception of March. But in the latter,: atleastethe days are getting longer and there's a wild hope that spring may come again. Normally, November means many things, none of • them pleasant. Darkness S,C)Mq early. There is a wild scramble, for many of over 'Snow tires and storm windows. There ' is bitter wind ashoreand terrifying storms on the -water. It's'been a grand Noyem- ber for the hunters and trout .fishermen, Perhaps not so good for the deer hunters, with little snow. But for. the duck and par- tridge boys, and the rain- bow anglers, it has been near perfection. Day after day of mild, al- most balmy weather has done away with the agoni- ied squat in the duck blind, with 'nothing between you. and certain death from ex- posure except the flask of rum. The same weather has made trout fishing, usually g wind Ever th i ngor- in thr-motith 'sk 11 a ha 11 is cutting tee'tli. 'and ir..; ii(1 4'Xl,1.11.lioil I 111!*.IIIIS hair and. brow. ialwrited rIolil Ilk Jamaican anet'-qors • (all black ((lit for fl4 s Witt. 1.irea4 gran,411)arent). . a bright. alert halw. 8,1 14.ast aNerageln Ile's 81 fa -,i eraNs lee and. 110%. i—lieeiniting thongli he :40.1 fl s 114. 144.4•0-.. f.48 114)141 1111 111 uII1 thin. lie has a4' goo(I appetite alai 4,111,. Ns lialeN i- offered Io"..hini. rrf. ljIlI4 14,114m hi •• a 11iipw dis1)o....104)11 and is even nitial& about going. 14) 1)4(1. Ile i- 11-4•41 44) children (414‘ 4itikle a ehatty leo,( 4)1' s‘ hal 114' HMI.111 1,t10%language. ftrtme- Inch -4.4, him rock- ix* In,leck. and forth. •t, • •Itonn lic.a addition to Ns ;luting a 1)ripht. happ -..... T.. inquire about 81.1.)pting Itonity. NsTile (4) 11% 0.)n - to. For general 44(1441)1nm 'information: ( T did!fS Aut Sorif.l. MONA CLEMENTS MONA CLEMENTS Suggests FINEST BATH TOILETRIES RIECK • by BRONNLEY of ENGLAND Soap Makers to • Pier Majesty the Queen PHARMACY _ • rry -Rieck, P11J1.g. Archie Barber, PHIr.B. • • - • . • with half -frozen fingers, practically a Sunday school picnic. - Eve -n-- the . golfers have been able to stretch the sea- son by at least a month. The Only danger they face is ex- haustion from golfing in the day anTcurling at night. Normally, the squirrels would begetting set up for the winter 01 look -into the ,,, backyard and they're .gam - boiling as though it were mid -J une. Surest sign that it'srbeen r a November without peer is the , behaviour of our. cat. As a...rule, when ,November. ar rives, with its:Wind and rain and asn,ow, shehas to be hurled bodily outside. This year, she has actually ,been going to the door...and asking, out. I haven't seen any bees, but there are still a lot of crazy birds around who have been baffled by the weather, and are going to be caught with, their pants down one of these -days. And,they're not the only ones. Many ,a man like my- self has 'been 'tilled into a false sense of security, has- n't his 'torms on,' -hasn't changed (to snow tires, has- n't even turned off the out- side water, and hasn't a clue where his winter boots are... Oh, there'll be -a day of reckoning,,, all right. My boneiWain me. But to heck with it. I'm going to live dangerously and enjoy every day of it. And to pFove it, ,I'm gOing to write my first, and probablipArny last, ode to Novem ber. Much -,maligned November, .. This year you've been my friend, Don't quite know how to prove it, But you've shown you can grooveit: ' No way are you "-September, BUT you're one I'll long re,re e m bor. ,. Isn't that beadtiful? • . The Argyle Syndicate BUYING? ANT AD inthe SHOPPING NEWS SELLING? 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