The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-30, Page 141.
4,A GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 3Q, 1969
TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
"TorntoTTclegram Syndicate
With that confiding look Jimmy might be saying: "I
know you're going to want to be my Mummy and Daddy."
He is a lovely baby, five months old, very sturdy and solid.
Those big eyes are blue, his hair is dark brown and he has
fair skin. This little boy had an exchange transfusion when
he was four -and -a -half days old, because of an RH blood
incompatability. He is now healthy, developing well and
achieving milestones at an average rate. Jimmy is a happy,
relaxed babewho welcomes attention and especially loves,.
to have children around him. His mother's background is
Irish, Danish and French. He needs loving parents who will
not be concerned that nothing is, known of his father. To
inquire about adopting, Jimmy please write to Today's Child,
Department of . Social and Family Services, Parliament
Buildings, Toronto 182. For information , on adoption ask
your Children's Aid Society.
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James Richardson &.Sons Ltd
Serving The Feed Dealers of Western Ontario
PHONE 524-8388, GODERICH
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Ann Landersio
' DEAR ANN LANDER"$:
These days when the world
appears to be going to hell in a
handbasket, .it might ,be
reassuring to your readers to
hear this story.
Yesterday I was having dinner
in a well-known restaurant, A
mother and her teenagedlaughter
were at the next table. Their
food . was arriving as I was being
served. I heard a small cry and
looked up just in time to see the
waitress stumble. A dinner plate
went flying through the air. The
fried chicken and gravy landed
in the mother's lap. The poor
woman had blobs •of gravy and
chunks of chicken from head to
toe. It was the worst mess I ever
saw. •
The waitress was in tears. She
tried to apologize. The woman
rose, mopped herself with a
napkin and said, good-naturedly,
"Don't worry aboilt it, dear, no
harm done. This dress had to go
to the cleaners anyway."
Naturally, everyone in the
place was staring. No one had
seen anything like it since Mack
Sennett. The waitress wanted to
die. The gravy -soaked lady
continued to mop and she never
stopped smiling.
After the hubbub died away I
heard the daughter say, "Mom,
you're beautiful. I love you."
I'm sure every person in the
place loved her, too. There's a
lesson here, Ann, and I hope
you'll print this letter. —
HOPKINSVILLE, KY.
DEAR HOP: You bet there's
a 'lesson and I'm delighted to
print your letter. I wonder how
many readers, under similar'
circumstances, would have been
so generous and kind. Thank
you for giving all of us
something to live up to.
DEAR ANN LANDERS: I
felt sorry for the woman who
-had .. four blue-eyed, brunette
babies and' then a redhead came
along. I know from experience
how stupid and thoughtless
people.can be about such things.
• Our 12-year-oldson is the'
spittin' image' of his father who
is Lebanese. He has coal black
hair, big brown eyes and olive
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skin. Our 10 -year-old son is.
blond, blue-eyed,fain-skinned
and a typical Dae lilie me.
When I take the boys shopping
for clothes some moron always
says, "h can see that the
light -haired boy is yours. Who is
the other boy?" When they are
with their father, someone
invariably says, "The older boy
is yours, of course. Who does the
blond boy belong to?"
I'll never forget the time the
boys were small and I took them
to the beach. A stranger came
over and asked, "Are these your,
boys?" When I said, "Yes," she
replied, "They certainly didn't
have the same father, did they?"
I snapped back, "Of course not.
The dark boy belongs to the
milkman." She nearly died.
From that day on I stopped
feeling uncomfortable about
rude comments. I decided the
best way to deal with.
ignoramuses is to make them
feel uncomfortable. Sign me -
JUST PLAIN MA
DEAR JUST: You sound like
a girl' 1"d like to know. Thanks
for the day brightener!
DEAR ANN LANDERS: How
can I tactfully tell a good friend
who is an otherwise impeccable
housekeeper, that the filthy,
torn dishrag she keeps lovingly
draped over the kitchen spigotis
en2ygh to kill a persorf's
appetite? Should I quietly
,,remove it one of these days and -
hope she takes the hint`? —
IRKED IDA
DEAR IDA: Keep your
pea-pickin' hands off the lady's
dishrag, Doll. It's her house, her
sink and her spigot.
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CALL FROM JUNIOR
IN THE MIDDLE
OF. -THE NIGHT
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Well, Thanksgiving has come
and went, and here we are
heading into dismal November,
and I'm farther behind with
everything than I was last
June.
On 'the -.second' day of July, 1
began cleaning up the base-
ment. And I can prove it.
There's still a sordid little
heap of ,dust, detergent and
other basement garbage sitting
there, proof positive that I got
one corner swept out. It's in a
direct line with the washer, so
'that you have to walk around
it every tilne. This creates
some interesting comments.
My major project of the
summer was to havebeen put-
ting a new top on a little back
porch', under which we put our
garbage .eans: There's an ingen-
ious lid that opens, made of
two-by-fours. One hinge was
going and a couple of the tim-
bers were loose. .
With winter coming on, both
hinges are broken right off,
and when you want to put
something in the garbage cans,
you don't lift the lid. You lift
eight two-by-fours, singly, pile
them up, put the junk in, then
replace them. It takes only
about five minutes. And every
time you go through the opera-
tion, it's raining.
Another plan was 'to rent a
chain saw and cut up all the
huge oak limbs piled along the
fence, for use in the fireplace.
They're still there. Speaking of
fences, there was to be a new
one this year. But I couldn't
get at the old one because of
All - those . oak limbs piled""
against it. Pretty frustrating.
Then there was the hedge. I
was- going to tear it out and
plant a new one. -The old one
was getting rotten in spots. It's
still there,
I was going to playa lot of
golf and get fit. I even asked
my wife into playing, and ,,aid'
her fees. I played about eight
times, and got fit -all right. 1
now, fit size 33 pars instead
of 31. But my wife had a great
season. She shot her first game
last week:" Five holes, at $16 a
hole. And the club is' closed
now.
With such an active, stren-
uous summer behind me, it
was good to get back to the
orderly job of teaching, where
you have to do things, whether
you feel like it- o rnot. And
ever since, I've been as owly as
a wolf with a toothache, be-
cause we have a new system.
There's nothing wrong with
the new system except that,
like every other new system,
it's lousy, compared to the old
one, which was also lousy. As I
prophesied a year ago, costs
have escalated :n direct pro-
portion to• the increase in red
tape and inefficiency.
It's something like the Book
of Kings. Paperwork begat
more Paperwork, Rules ' begat
Regulations at an alarming
rate, and Committees begat
Committees like so' many rab-
bits. (There goes my chance of
ever getting anywhere in the
profegsion). .
Don't worry, I can stand sys-
tems. I wasn't in the air force
for four years without learning
how to. beat them. You don't
defy them, you just chew away
from within, like a termite,
until they collapse.
Thanksgiving I looked for-
ward to a chance -to get caught
Never
enough
time
up on everything, get out in
the open and relax, see the
colors of fall, and forget about
the system (after all, just -a- lot
of honest- men trying to do a
good job. No women, strangely
enough).
So my daughter came home
from first month of university: r~
Bewildered, full of hang-ups
about courses, and desperately
lonely. �.
For the past two years, my
most frequent comment to her
was, "Now, you be in at a
reasonable hour." This time;
we couldn't get her out of the
house. On they Saturday, • I
drove her downtown and said,
"Get out of the car and go and
see somebody." She was home
in an hour.
And now it's the ruddy
leaves no pun intended. I have
ten maples, three elms, one
butternut and two vasty oaks.
The maples come down like a
shower of dandruff. Elms and
butternut trickle down with
malicious perversity, And the
blasted oaks wait until every-
thing else is raked and the
snow is falling, before they
condescend to contribute their
confetti.
Oh well, life is the only one
we have. But I can tell you one
thing. There'll be no more
$54.00 phone bills for one
month of wife -and -daughter
talks about nothing.
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