wears sh

MY husband is a
looking man.

good-

He's not a dandy by any
means, doesn't believe that
“the clothes make a man.”
but he cares about his health
and works out to stay in good
shape. He rides his bike and
coaches hockey, and in the
last vear he has added swim-
Ming to his exercise routine.

A couple of weeks back he
started complaining about his
swimming attire. You see, he
is both a frugal and modest
guy, and his bathing suit isa
bulky, old pair of swim trunks
thar used to be beach shorts.

“This old bathing suit
drags me down like a big sea
anchor,” he said. “When it
fills up with water it weighs a
ton.”

“Why don't vou buy one

* | stiggested, laugh-
‘If at the thought
of him in it.

He considered this sugges-
tion for a while, then
shrugged it off.

“LT don’t think F could

: ne of those things, I'd

Ptoo embarrassed.” he said
with’ a sigh.

And so he continued to
swim in his big floppy shorts,
unt last weekend, when he
and my daughter, Jillian,
went shopping tor a new pair
of runners for her.

Apparently, while at the
sports store, (and Tam get-
ting this first hand from
Jillian}, my husband ambled
nonchalantly over to the

Teen in right place atr

Dear Editor:

While reading the March 8
North Shore News re the
accident of the overturned van
in the ditch, [ was thinking

how wondertul it was) that
Jessica Hill came to the rescue
of the van driver and that they

Close to
home

swim wear section, When she
found him, he was shyly
pecking at the Speedo swim-
suits for men,

“Why don't vou try one
on Dad?” she asked, irving ta
encourage him.

been thinking about
it,” he contessed. "Do you
think 1 should

Being the positive kid she
is she answered, “Absotute
I think vou'd look great i
ong of these dinky suits,

He ginger!
through the n
bathing suits until he tound
what should be his size. a

For a large. it was pretty
small, and FP guess he almost
abandoned the whole idea
right then and ¢ xcept
for the fact that Jillian
spurred him on by saving:
“Don’t be shy, Dad. try it on,
I think they stretch.”

Locating the most remote
changing room in the store,
he ppeared behind the
curtain to trv the diny thing
on, Apparently he was gone
for quite a while.

fillian started to get ner-
vous, Wondered if something
awful had happened to him.

even knew each other from
high school.

I was amazed to read that
Erin Robinson, the 18-vear-
old driver, “didn’t want to talk
about it” when called by the
News. I would have thought
that “thank you” would have

She called through the
change curtain: “Dad? Are
you in there
“Pam.” was the uneasy
respons ut Phave a prob:
There’s no mirror in

POUVe Bot TO KoMeE Ont”

she coaxed. “The mirror is
out her

There was some clumsy
shaftling behind the curtain,
and he ¢ di with the lit-
de suiton over top of his
tlannel boxer shorts.

“Ob Dad.” said fillian, sti-
fling the wad of giggles that
was nearly gagging her. “You
wort be allowed to wear that
bathing suit with vour boxers
on underneath when vou go

and quickly
retreated back behind the
curtain where he changed
into his clothes.

When they returned home
with their new things, Jillian
pulled the wee wunks out of
the bag to show me. I must
admit, T was surprised and
impressed that her father had
the courage to buy the thing.

“On wich it immediately”
1 ordered, and naturally he
immediately complied.

But he wasn't sure about
it when he saw himself in the
mirror (this time without the

TE could tell, He said
tawtully exposed we
ing the suit, to which |

been bar
skimpy su
did't care to hear any snivel-

even if she didn’t want to talk

about the details of the acci-
dent. She is lucky that tellow
teenager Je Hill has such a
knowledge of first aid!

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mg about a title leveling of
the swimsuit fashion playing
Neld thank vou very much.

And the truth is. he goes
Wr look hall bad in his new
suit

Oh it cuts into him here
and there. bur by and large, it
looks pretty good. Phas, hav:
inv the suit has viven him a
whole new lease on swim
ming. He couldn't wait to
get to the pool te try it out
tor the first time, even
bought new goggies to
mateh. He's hike a little kid
with new running shoes, He
claims his swimming 1s much
faster new that he wears the
new sulin,

“You should come and
watch me Shannon, | just
Mink through the water,” he
drawl.

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have a whole new resecer for
him. Tbehieve Ponty told one
friend about John getting the
suit. bue we live ina small
community and the news has

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over the North Shore have

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one of my boys’ teans is
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