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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-04-18, Page 18BOOK REVIEW :A;•;i is 4::•:.v :.:. !.•: .. • LL VARIETIES HOSTESS JELLIED OR WHOLE OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES 14 oz. TIN CHERRY, BLUEBERRY-R1SP. McCAINS LITE DELITE PIES 624 g EACH SPECIAL! McCAINS FROZEN REVIVE OR APPLE JUICE FROZEN 355 mL TIN ASSTED. COLORS WHITE SWAN TOWELS 2 ROLL PKG. FROZEN 3 VARIETIES TOTINO PIZZA ASSORTED SIZES 5" .49 SPECIAL! STOUFFERS MAC & CHEESE OR SPINACH SOUFFLE FROZEN 340 g EACH 1.59 McCAIN LITE DELITE APPLE PIES 624 g 1.99 SPECIAL! SOFT STYLE IMPERIAL MARGARINE 2 Ib. TUB —2-0 29 SPECIAL! scHNEID ERS SINGLE CHEESE SLICES 250 g PKG. SPECIAL! S DUKE RA MUS DANISH H CAMEMBERT OR BRIE 1258 DOMINION EASTER EXPRESS 300 g EACH 229 McCAINS DRINKING BOXES ASSTED. FRUIT FLAVOUR 3'S SPECIAL! FINE QUALITY—' NEILSONS TOFFIFAY 391 g PKG. 4.99 SPECIAL! PALANDA MANDARIN ORANGES 10 oz. TINS 690 ‘16. !VIMr.4,9'*:,Vll iOl � !eEr5r� .. MONEYS PIECES 8 STEMS 3 VARIETIES BICKS DILLS ONE LITRE 189 SPECIAL! CLUBHOUSE MANZ. LOOSE PACK OLIVES 250 mL 39 • SPECIAL!, '.E.D. SMITH 3 VARIETIES PIE FILLINGS 19 oz. TIN 1039 SPECIAL! BLUEBERRY OR CHERRY E.D. SMITH PIE FILLINGS 19 oz. TINS '1. 89 SPECIAL! COCKTAIL OR PEACHES FORTUNE FRUIT 14 oz. TIN 89# ALL VARIETIES TAB, SPRITE OR COCA-COLA 750 mL BOTTLE WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SERVE YOU IN Open 83210th l9en8 nights e week till 9:30 SPECIAL! GILLETTE TRAC 11 CARTRIDGES 10' s SPECIAL! ZEHRS CHOICE WHOLE POTATOES 19 oz. TIN 59 0 SPECIAL! CHUNK -CRUSHED -SLICED DOLE JUICE PAK PINEAPPLE 19 oz. TIN CLUBHOUSE MARASCHINO RED CHERRIES 2m` 1.77 WHITE SWAN COLOURED,WHITE 790 SERVIETTES 60 Sh. SPECIAL! CASE OF 24-280 mL TILS TAB, SPRITE OR COCA-COLA ALL VARIETIES WHITE SWAN DINNER SERVIETTES 40 Sh CLUBHOUSE 106 g BLACK PEPPER 1. 7 ,April 18, 1984, --Page A At wit's end by Erma 8ombeck 4'opy, IgJ ,P78 I44Ca4epd .ipr 232 Arthur St.S Open Wed., Thurs. and Fri. evenings TETLEY 227 g ORANGE PEKOE TEA BAGS 72's 10 oz. REGULAR OR 8 oz. DECAFF, MAXWELL HOUSE Oil 1��Es COFFEE LISTOWEL 975 Wallace Ave. N. Open Wed., Thurs. and Fri. evenings SWEETMILK, BUTTERMILK #, PILLSBURY BISCUITS 2. 4 7 U 9!lAPF6EMElBlt APPLE STRUDEL ASSORTED VARIETIES STOKELY'S VEGETABLES KERNEL CORN 12 oz. 735 Towed St. S. Open Wed.. Thurs. and Fri. evenings Corner of No. 4 and 86 Hwys. Open Thurs.. Fri. evenings The Stepfamilies are .coni ing! The Stepfamilies are Com- ing! Not only are their numbers On the rise, but because 75 per cent of divorced women and 83 per cent of divorced men remarry, by 1990 there will be more stepfamilies than traditional ones. I was a stepchild back in the days when they were rare and had a lot of bugs to be worked out. My grand- mother, sparked by to low threshold of boredom, was married five times. At fam- ily reunions, there was no such thing as a family re- semblance. We never knew what it was, so we never knew if we had it. I had a whole brother and a half sister. She in turn had a half brother, a half sister, a stepsister, and a full sister. We always prefaced every meetingwith, Yo ur father?" and went from there. We had half -aunts, uncles by'divorce, and a few dozen cousins by association. We racked up stepchildren three years younger than their stepmothers, brothers who couldn:t begin to spell their sister'$ last name, and grandfathers who were never too sure who you were. I went to a funeral once and wept like a baby over an aunt who was never related to me. Just last week I said in a column that I saw no need whatsoever for a home com- puter. I take that back. If there is one area that needs a storage unit for names and relationships, that can be printed out in a matter of seconds, it's the stepfamily. Take the child whose di- vorced mother had four children and married a wi- dower with five, all under 18. He was the only kid in town with two brothers named Jimmy, a brother and a sis- ter a month apart and two sisters 12 days apart. A rab- bit on a good day couldn't top that. The record-keeping alone of these families is enough to boggle the mind. Traditional families have enough pro - Mems keeping track of im- munizations and school rec- ords without having to figure out who had their tonsils out and who didn't. The computer would not only keep pace with how many tickets are needed for graduation and seats for the wedding, but whether or not the separation would allow for three mothers and three fathers to sit in peace and love to be scattered through- out the crowd. I had a terrible time once explaining to a teacher about the twins in our family who were six and eight who had the same last name. They were not twins to each other in her class because the six- year-old twin got held back when they moved with their father, and the eight-year- old twin lived with his mother in another town. I don't know why they looked alike. Someone should have kept better records. UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES. By Thomas G. Gunning. Illustrated with Photographs and Prints. Dodd, Mead and Company (Canada) Ltd., Toronto. 112 pp. Reviewed by PERCY MADDUX Do you know a' Col. Faw- cett who was lost in the jungle of Brazil in 1925 and has not been heard of since? Do you know of a man called Cooper who jumped out of an airplane in 1971 with $200,000 and was never found, al- though half the money was found? Have you heard of a dino- saur -like creature in Central Africa called Mokele- mbembe (the one who stops the river)? Of course, you know that Jonah was swal- lowed by a whale and was in- side it three days until cast up on the shore, but do you believe that in 1890 James Bartley was swallowed by a whale in the South Atlantic and lived to tell about it after being inside the whale for two days? % These are only four of the nine mystery tales related byThomas G. Gunning in his B book `Unexplained NCys. teries". This is an exciting and fascinating volume, with every story an enjoyable one.