| Keeping abreast

YOU know, I’ve been
wondering lately if
reading about the
humorous side of fam-
ily life might not get
tiring after a while.

I mean, is the stuff I
write really all that impor-
tant, all that meaningtul to
the average person out there
who actually takes the time
to read the community
paper?

It has been suyyested to
me by a seasoned newspaper
writer that perhaps [ should
try to incorporate some real,
important family issues into
my column; that E should
move away from the funny
stutt.

1 appreciate this advice,
and so have been polling
some local readers for their
suggestions as to what kind

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No magic

Dear Editor:

“What message. are we
sending to our children...”

On Friday betore
‘Halloween, I took mys
year-old son to the Centennial
Theatre to’ watch a magic
show, Stage Fright.

T was not sure what to
expect from this magic show,
so I inquired at the reception
desk as to the appropriatencss

_ of the show for my  six-year-
old. | was reassured that the
show would be what kids like
to see. | was also told that it
would not scare my son. The
theatre was filled with voung
children, some with parents.

The show was completely
tasteless and hideous. The
entire show was filled with
nothing but acts of gory dis-
turbing killings. Who screens

=these: shows for viewing. by
our children? Why do we call

his show appropriate for chil-
dren?

In every scene the magi-

“clans committed some brutal.

killing’ of .people from) the
show crew as well as the audi-

In-one scene which still
sends. shivers up my spine, (1
can’t imagine what it did: to
the’ kids), the: magician kid-
napped and tied up a young

girl.
She screamed. tor her life,

draped:a white cloth over her
head while she was seated in a
tied up. He stab
in the head, the blood pour
out, she no longer screamed.
another scene, the

“expectation, please tell us. When
newspaper story does not seem fo

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Close to
home

of things really matter to
them,

There’s one issue that
keeps coming up, particular:
lv in my discussions with
women, and EP think its just
the ticket for my new,
improved column,

It’s bell trying
good fitting bra.

Now vou fellow
there might think dy
nonsense, that the
shape, and hang of a female
breast can be accommodated

to finda

in show,

ballet dancer and tied her
between ovo poles and drove
a sword through her back and
out the front, the girl went
limp. In another scene, the
magician took another voung
girl, placed her on a table, tied
her arms above her head and
using an electric table saw cut
her in two.

Fam sure you can imagine
the spine-tingling, hair-curl-
ing sound of the s when
the curtain falls. He never

Seo oN

in any old cup.

And that may be true tor
young wonten. Bur T can tell
vou this: when it comes to
women who have borne chil-
dren or whe are aging grace:
fully, finding a comfortable
bra chat fits properly and is
tlattering to the female pro-
file is quite a challenge these
days,

Almost all women who
have had children admit to
experiencing major changes
in their breasts during their
child-bearing vears. During
pregnancy breasts first swell
up and out in preparation
for pursing, then practically
explode to the size of regula-
tion footballs with the nutri-
ent-rich milk mothers are
famous for producing upon
the birth ofa child.

OF course, breast-feeding,
like habyhood, must eventu-

only brutal

brought her or the others
back to life, so where is the

I tried to explain to my son
that the show was magic and
thar the young girls did not
get killed, bur he could not
see anything magical about
the deaths and quite frankly
neither could [.

Why do we allow
extreme and severe
brutality to be presented asa
children’s magic show.

uch

f Seri

acts of

aliv come to an 1, and
when it docs most mothers
find that their impressively
large and firm breasts both
shrink dramatically ana
droop, much like a pair of
sorry ald balloons with the
uriet out of them.

(One gai T know com-
mented to me that before
she had her babies she was a
size 36R, and after she tin-
ished nursing them her bra
size changed to a 36]. — for
long, that is).

These newly deflated post
natal sacks can be hell to
reshape via a bra into some-
thing that resembles the live-
ly bosoms we see in all the
bra advertisements.

Age also has a way of los-
ing out to gravity, causing
fleshy protrusions like
breasts to sag.

Heavy-chested women

violence

Lam the first to pur out my
stuffed s Frankenstein and
Dracula garbage bags) on
Halloween, but this show was
just in extremely poor taste.

T am sorry for those par-
ents who did not attend this
“show” with their kids; [’'m
sorry that your children expe-
rience:

“fun.”
Vida Dharas
North Vancouver

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such shocking acts of
violence, all in the name of

Friday. November 1

especially find that the older
they get the more support
they require to keep their
breasts off their tammies,
Mere cotton or elastic is no
longer enough to do the
trick.

Heavy wires, double
Staapping with super strong
manmade tibres, and virtual
binding techniques must be
emploved if the heavy chest-
ed woman wants to look and
teel perky during the day.

And I don’t know exactly
how many bras there are on
the market today, but just
take a look in any of the lin-
gerie sections in the major
department stores and you'll
get an idea of the enormous
selection a woman has ro
sort through,

It wouldn't surpri
one bit if the number was

Fortunately, some major
department stores offer bra-
fitting clinics, where repre
sentatives of bra manutactur-

entific task of fitting a ‘bra to
a set of not ni arily con-
forming bre: This is help-
ful if you’re not shy, but can
be embarrassing if you’re the
modest type, or your parti
ular bra fitter features herself’
a comedienne.

The bra fitter 1 had
recently contided to me that
she likes to use musical
names to catego
women’s breasts for bra fit-
ting. Tubular bells, Tiny

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PROFE

y |

3. 1998 — North Shore News — 7

issues

Bubbles, Baby Belugas, The
Long and Winding Boobs,
these were a few of

One moni [ know says
she tried on over 50 d
ent styles the last time she
went bra shopping. It took
her the better part of a wee
at several different stores to
tinally find one that fir, She
had to pay S67 ro buy the
thing, but she was so
relieved to have finally found
a good tit that she bought
four of them.

She’s nor alone it her
willingness to pay big money
tora good fitting bra.

A soccer mom. E spoke to
just replaced her 10-vear-old
bras (we gals are: faithful ro
our old bras) with two new
ones that cost S85 each, And
my own mother contided:to
me that she had been trying
on bras lately, even had one
on that cast $135.

“[ couldn’t bring myself
to buy a bra that cost the
same amount of money as
vour father paid sor his first
car,” was her comment.

What possible impact
could this troublesome issue
of finding a good fitting bra
have on the family, you may
ask? Well, consider this. A
woman in a comfortable bra
who feels like she looks good
is a lot happier than a
woman storming around
with h tips in a knot.

If thar’s not an important

family issue, { don’t know
“what is. : ‘

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