j / No Handicap To Fame nn Landers: son is left-handed. is trying to change She insists it is an handicap for a per- through life left- fi that it's all a mat- king the habit. my wife -strapped hand to his side with made him feed him- is right hand. He at the table and I my wife in plain leave the boy alone. and maké him do Bht - handed, he will problem all of his life. > you know about this --Battle Weary Weary: I know of mothers whose left- d sons did just fine. To a few, there's Mrs. Kou- son, Sandy; Mrs, Ruth's Babe; Mrs. da Vinci's son, |i ardo, and Mrs. Mauldin's , Bill. Insist that your wife ve the boy alone before she akes a nervous wreck of him. Dear print my letter for the woman who signed herself Withheld." husband owed it to her to spell out every detail about his re- 'lationship with the woman he went with before they married. I was the same way. I nagged| all the intimate details out of my husband and now I'm so miserable I don't know what to do. Whenever he whispers some * little love phrase in my ear I wonder if he said the same things to her. When he holds "me in his arms I can't help + but think that he is such a won- * derful lover because he has had «80 much practice. Our .|a grand assist. Ann Landers: Please "Nothing She felt that her The ghost of my husband's sweetheart haunts me. Now I wish I had kept my nose out of his past and not been so in- quisitive. Please tell all girls who want to pump a man for information of: this kind that they are better off not knowing. Ignorance is Bliss Dear Ig: I did tell"em but you told 'em even better, A testimonial from one who has been there is always much more effective. Thanks for giving me Dear Ann Landers: Recently I married a widower with three children. We are very happy. His three children (college age) have had some bitter arguments among themselves as to who gets what pieces of furniture and the personal possessions of their mother. (She died two JUDY LaMARSH years ago.) The most fought- over item is a beautiful dia-| mond wedding ring which their) she died. All the children want| t I am writing to ask what you think should be done with the ring. My husband and I are not flush with money and He; feels that it would be sensible | to sell the ring and put the money to some good use. He is afraid, however, that his chil-/ dren may feel that he is not) paying their mother the proper | respect. He says they are quite! sentimental. What do you say?/ --Sidelines | Dear Sidelines: These kids} {sound as sentimental as: a col- Hlection of water moccasions. If there were only one child} I would say the ring should be| given to the child, but since) there are several, and "they all | want it" the best solution is the) fone your husband has sug- gested. So long as the sugges- jtion is his and not yours, the 'kids have no right to criticize. Snow Removal oe ete eee eee By ELEANOR ROSS » Do you quake on sighting *those gently falling flakes, S dreading the very thought of «shoveling snow? * If you are already busily en- «gaged in that back - breaking * chore, take heart. Your deliver- + ance could be at hand, though «it may be too late this season. Steel-pipe snow-melting sys- «tems make shoveling as old- * fashioned as the five-cent street- »car ride. They are becoming « increasingly popular every win- » ter and obviously save wear and *tear on the shoveller. . In an "automatic" show re- «moval system, the steel pipe * must be thoroughly imbedded in » concrete or black-top. A typical * installation has a three-quarter- «inch pipe with 12-inch spacing * placed at a depth of two inches * below the wearing surface. * MUST RESURFACE * It cam be installed on top of an existing driveway or walk, Problems That Simply Melt Away | We found that installing a|key to 20th century living is |snow melting system is not ex-|"survimal of the brainiest." |cessively expensive in relation; 'To put this in the extreme, jto the benefits gained. The cost|the physically fit school drop- varies, depending upon local|oyt is a liability to himself and others. The 98-pound weakling conditions -- including the sur- face are and amount of snow- fall to be expected. A 50-foot driveway might be equipped with a snow melting system for as little as the cost of putting in inlaid linoleum -in two aver- age-size rooms. The cost of op- eration averages from seven to 15 cents a thousand square feet) an inch of snowfall. | The snow melting system | should not be part of the house's regular heating system. How- ever, by means of a heat-ex- changer, it could use the same boiler as @ source of heat. If the house is heated by a system that fs neither steam nor hot | water, a separate hot water | boiler should be put in at a con- Melting installation. The system is generally filled "if it 1s possible to do a resour- facing job without tearing up the original construction. : As we know, 32 degrees Fahr- » enheit is the freezing point, but "it takes 40 degrees Fahrenheit temperature on the pavement "face to melt ice and stiow effi- ciently. In practice, these sys- téms are usually designed to melt snow at the rate of, one inch an hour. with a solution of permanent |type anti-freeze and water to |prevent freezing. Special. light | joils may also be employed. The | juse of steel pipe in snow melt- | jing systems has a number of | } advantages. An efficient carrier | jand transmitter of heat, steel | |pipe withstands the normal ef. | \fects of steam and hot water. | |Also it resists both shock. and ' stress. | JANUARY CLEARANCE Shown Just one of an exciting group of dresses, Styles, colours, sizes to suit you, REG. TO $30.00 others." mother had reset just before|# GRACE McINNIS JEAN WADDS Only four women were elected to the House of Commons Nov. 8 compared with six in the old Parlia- ment, but one, Grace Mc- Innis (lower left) is the first woman MP ever elect- ed from British Columbia. She is also the first woman to sit for the New Demo- cratic Party. Health minis- WOMEN LOSE GROUND IN POLITICS MARGARET RIDEOUT ter Judy LaMarsh was re- elected as were Margaret Rideout (right), Liberal member for New Bruns- wick's Westmoreland and Jean Wadds, (centre) Pro- gressive Conservative MP from the Ontario riding of Greenville-Dundas. --CP Photo Wemen |]4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, January 6, 1966 Survival Of Fittest / Brougham Pair Feted By Family Means Brainiest GENEVA PARK, Ont. (CP)-- In a world where a 98-pound) weakling with a BA degree is a} |hero, survival of the fittest|8rougham, Ontario were tl |doesn't mean much, delegates | honored guests at a family din- |to a conference on fitness for/ner patty held at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, women were told Tuesday. (On Golden Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hopkins, the The five - day YWCA - spon-|Mr. aad Mrs. James Holtby, sored conference began in 'this community near Orillia Tues- day with an opening speech by Mrs. Robert McCormack, of the sociology department of York University, Toronto. Mrs. McCormack said the with a BA degree is an asset. He may be living on pills . . . but he {s a hero to himself and/t She told the more than 80 delegates that women were in danger of becoming little more than nagging mothers if they failed to revise their concept of fitness to a society based on brain technology. Holtby, Mrs. and Brougham. grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Bowmanville on Boxing day, on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. Four gen- erations of their family attend- ed. Mre_ Hopkins is the former Fiva Slack, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Slack of Goodwood. Mr. Hopkins is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charies Hopkins of Glen Major, Ontario. They were united in marriage at Stouffville on De- cember 29, 1915. Mr. and Mrs, Hopkins have three daughters: Merle, Mrs. Bowmanville; Verna, Floyd Mantle, Brooklin; Jean, Mrs. Ivan Booth, They have nine The couple operated a farm 'at, Glen Major until 1921 when they moved to another farm| just east of the village of| Brougham, retiring to the vil- lage in 1945, where they still reside. The family presented them| with a living room suite and| many other gifts, flowers, and cards were received from | friends and relatives. Congrat-| ulations were received from the Prime Minister, the Right Hon-| orable Lester B. Pearson; the| Leader of the Opposition, the} Right Honorable John Diefen-| baker; the Honorable Michael | |Starr, M.P.; Prime Minister |John Robarts of Ontario and the| |Honorable Dr. Matthew Dymond | M.L.A. | | 1 | HOUSEHOLD HINT No garlic presser? Place the) bud between waxed paper,| smash with a hammer and it! will be julcy and ready to use| in seconds. 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