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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-04-04, Page 21Ifyou're determined to give your baby a healthy start on life, It's a simple fact please re ad this • Measles.Watch your that the good health of a child starts diet. Get as much rest and fresh air as with the good health of its mother. you can. No smoking. No alcohol. No If you're thinking of having a unnecessary drugs. It's not easy to take, baby -or are already expecting one- but remember that the closer you remember take good care of yourself can stick to it, the.better the chances of first. Remember to check for immunity starting your child off to a happy, to Rubella, also known as German healthy beginning. It all starts with you. Presented by The Easter Seal Society, Ontario in partnership with Imperial Oil Limited. cp 'a Gosoft& Save Mone 40-FITHBROO W�terSoftener forONLY X59! Plus installation Find out just how economical soft water is. LIMITED OFFER -- CALL NOW! ''NEYCULL►GAN MAH!, Call. collect Hanover 364-3830 Shiley Whittington Inthef!4'wayIt I am being neither cynical or sarcastic when I applaud Premier Davis of Ontario's suggestion of May as Family Month. 'If they can designate weeks to eat fish, take a chicken to lunch, give blood or be fit, then a month seems not too long to .devote to the cause of the family. Some family activities have been suggested which fit around the suggested Family Month slogan — "Rediscover each other". Picnics and barbecues and family reunions sound like sensible suggestions. It has also been mentioned that families should write their family history and pack it, with photgraphs and typical children's toys in a box which would then be buried or hidden in a safe place. Our . mother's basements have yielded lots of family memorabilia — pictures and letters and old Teddy Bears. Now they're all buried in our basement. Who will retrieve them from the vault? Will any of the four kids care? After May, they might. Families have changed. Now it's cool to have 1.3 kids per family. (When I see that stat, I squirm: Is there some- where a poor woman, per- petually one-third gravid to whom people keep saying, "My gosh. Are YOU still around?") We were married in the days of beehive hairdos and Kennedys in the White House. Families were bigger then. Four was the statistical average, and we, being exactly average, had exactly that many. We were in good company. Hamstrung with small kids, single salaries and temper - mental appliances, we rated cense-friendships---10---PlIt with others in the same boat. We'd get together on week- ends — with kids or without — and sing, cook and eat to- gether, play cards or just act silly. . We were six couples. Amongst us were 23 chil- dren, six mortgages, a fleet of rusty station wagons and Volkswagens, five cats and two dogs. Our furniture was sturdy and washable, with a few precious pine antiques. None of the women worked outside the home although each of us was university educated. But we'd all read Betty Friedan anciSimone de Beauvoir and between diapers and blender apple- sauce, we allowed ourselves to dream. We've moved away from the community where we spent those early days, but the Christmas card network keeps us posted. Today, two couples have celebrated silver wedding anniversaries. Two . mar- riages ended in divorce. Two were devastated by death. One of the bereft married again, briefly and disastrously. The 23 kids are scattered in California, Florida, Wash- ington, D.C., • England, d France, Austria ate lcanada. They were raised in tough years. Remember when everything was peace and love .:and permissiveness? Remember when anyone over thirty wasn't to be trusted? Remember when everybody under thirty was hairy, barefoot and chained to a guitar? The kids are all grown now, and most of them are well educated with straight teeth and kind hearts. They are whole decent kids — the kind who phone home some- times even if they don't need money; who sometimes re- member birthdays and anni- versaries; who plan surprise parties for each other, visit each other, love their grand- parents and occasionally put gas in the family car after they've used it on the week- end. Our own four seem fond of this loosely knit (but tight at the centre) bunch of bananas called the Whittingtons. They borrow money from each other, trade clothes and insult s, help each other out of jams (most of which I will never, thank God, know about) have terrible shout - mai ches hout- maiches and buy each other breakfast at McDon- ald's .every) so often. I suspect the other kids from the other five families 'are the same — literate, lov- ing; lovely young people. But here's the funny thing. Out of the 23 sprogs mention- ed earlier, only two have married that I know about. They aren't big on kids either. As far as a I know, not one of that original bunch is a grandparent. That's okay by me. I'm due to retire from parenting any day now. I don't need grandparenting —not yet. But I do intend to observe Family Month in May with great gusto. First we'll have a picnic, or a barbecue. We'll rediscover one an- other, just like the slogan says. We'll pull all the family stuff out of the basement the old letters and pictures and Teddy Bears — and we'll pore over them together. We will most assuredly celebrate our joy and good fortune in being part of a • far tilt'. That's one thing about be- ing in the family way. It can last for a lifetime. Michele Lee's cosmetic .philosophy By COLETTE BOUCHEZ Some actresses have a natural knack for applying makeup. Almost instinc- tively they know exactly what to put on, .how much on and where on their faces to put it! For others, it's, complete reli- -ance on..a.,mgheup,ar-tist.to- turn them .into celebrated prime -time beauty queens. 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Bramhill Service Centre Inc. Palmerston, Ontario. NOG 2P0 Phone 343-3100 as th character she so brilliantly portrays, Mi- .. chele has strong feelings about the beauty, products on today's market, espe- cially those related to skin • care. "There's no question about it," saysis site beauty, "if. you moisturize 'you?*Sin-, especially around your eyes, your , makeup is going to look better than if you apply it directly to dry skin. And yes, you will appear younger looking. But," she continues to say, "what my father believed and conse- quently I do too is that there are no creams or lo- tions .that can stop the aging process or the natu- ral drying process of the skin. No matter how high priced an item is, it only works on the top layers of skin which is not where wrinkles begin If you stay out of the sun and moistur- ize the dry areas on your face, plus avoid harsh products you will do OK." Michele also adds, how- ever, "The main thing to do is to make yourself feel good about yourself. If you like a certain product line and you're happy with the results than you should continue with it. All I'm saying is hot to be fright ened of the aging process, because sooner or later wve all end up with lines and creases and other than plastic surgery, there's not too much you can do about it." So, how does Michele keep her good looks year after year? Her beauty routine is simple and cen- ters around two basic steps. "First of all," says this sparkling brunette, "I never use soap on my face. I have combination skin with some spots dry and some spots oily enough to cause a breakout. In place of soap I use a cleansing lotion from my dermatolo- gist. There are also many good commerical products on the market that work as well. "Then," she continues to say, "I use a product called `Buf,' which is a very light, water-based moisturizer, just under and around my eyes. This is the only prod- uct that I have found to work for combination skin, by moisturizing the dry areas and not aggravating the oily parts of my face." For a foundation, Mi- chele chooses Clinique's Pore Minimizer Make-up which I highly recommend as well. Also a water-based preparation it as especially good for combination skin and the large pores that usually accompany the oily MICHELLE LEE '...Find your own style and stick to it' areas. Although it does not actually shrink your pores (no product really can), it does make them appear smaller and gives a fine, porcelain look to your complexion. SUPER BEAUTY Has winter's chill taken its toll on your feet, leaving you with dry, chapped or cracked skin? Well, ac- cording to RAY CISNEROS, the tootsie ex- pert at LA MANICURE in Encino, Calif. (an entire salon dedicated to fingers and toes!), the problem is as easy to combat as chapped lips! 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