‘Timely tips for housekeeping husbands TODAY'S CLASS is going to study housekeeping for husbands whese wives have left on vacations, and will the elderly, balding corporation president in the third row kindly sit up straight and stop picking his nose. This is for your own good. First, of course, one experiences the trauma of being parted for two, perhaps three weeks from the dear creature whom you have sworn to love, honor and try to understand. Paul St. Pierre PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES You will miss her, but there are compensations. That sweet voice will now not fall upon your ear telling you to stop gardening in your good pants. In fact, there will be no voice to command you to garden. The big problem is keeping the house neat and tidy, which is the way she prefers it. Relax. It is far less work than you thought. It would be far less work for your wife, too, if she were better organized. Your first organizational step is to survey the family home. How many rooms do you need to use? Really need, that is. One bathroom, yes. But not two. Seal the second bathroom shut so you can’t dirty it even if you try. Kitchen, yes. Dining room, cer- tainly not. Eat at the kitchen counter or in front of the TV. Speaking of the TV, is it in the living room or den? Whichever room it is not in, seal that off. You will have to use a bedroom, unless the couch in front of the TV is truly comforta- ble, but, again, not more than one bedroom. Thus your home, which has probably always been far bigger than you needed, is reduced to four working rooms at a max- imum. Stick chairs in front of the clos- ed doors of all the other rooms or paste paper tape across the door handles. Otherwise you may wander in some time in muddy feet with the dog, who can be depended upon to deposit a meaty bone under the furniture and forget about it until it ripens. Over the period of half a month or so, subtle changes will overtake these emply rooms. All household air contains dust. This will drop gently over PDESTGN & FROM CONCEPT TO FINISHED PRODUCT 2442 Marine Drive, West Vancouver 922-0247 Bowen 947-9745, BE IN THE “NO” Ener | everything in those rooms. This does no harm, provided the room is empty and its air left still, The coating of dust is even and lends a pastel charm to everything. It is the stirring up of this dust that causes trouble and stirring it up is exactly what the average housewife does so often. Leave it lay where fate hath flang it. The kitchen is always a problem room. So much happens there, most of it mysterious. Unless you are gifted with a particularly good memory, you will soon forget to step around the place on the floor where the bacon fat spilled and the stuff will get tracked into the other three rooms in which you are besieged. The dish problem, however, need not trouble you. Go to K Mart. They have plastic knives and ferks, plastic glasses and paper plates. If you are going to entertain during your wife’s absence, you can buy paper plates with floral designs on them. There is no need for a lot of coffee mugs in the house. Pick one. Use it over and over again. It says so right in the Canadian Bill of Rights. The same goes for ashtrays. Pots will become dirty from time to time and you will learn what those truly horrid scrapers and ugly rags in the sink are for. Don't be too hasty to use pots. Food heats well in the original tin can package, provided you remember to punch a hole in the top before heating so that the wretched thing doesn’t explode and hitirl food into corners where even your wife would be hard put to get it out. It is also best not to place eggs in the microwave still cased in their shells. Some cleanup jobs are of awesome proportions. If you make a mistake such as this it may be necessary to go out and bum meals from your friends or even from your relatives. Eventually the day approaches when the light is going to be restored to your life, Houseclean everything, all four rooms. Get out the vacuum cleaner. Do this early on the day of her return so that if you cannot figure out how it works there is time to get help from a neighbor. Mop ail the floors. Be thorough. Mop everywhere, except under chairs and in corners. Soak a rag in Mr. Clean, Dettol or some other strong-smelling household cleaner. Tuck the rag in a corner where it will cast off a delightful, fresh smell. Just remember to grab it and pack it out to the garbage can before she gets home. if you have forgotten to take out the garbage from the kitchen for a couple of weeks, this is the time to do that too. Buy flowers. Pray for peace. Gibsons, ‘B. Cc. Level access, view Townhomes turn to page 43 criday. August 3, 1990 - North Shore News - 9 Local advocacy group | founder dies at age 40 © WEST SANCOUVER resident ot Univeraty Colieve Vancouver laine Cumiey, the founder of an He sad cle bursary reflects advocacy group for victims of the | Mrs. Cumiey’s compassion for Datkon Shield intra-uterine device Latin American society. Originally GUD), has died in Lions Gate from Tesas, she spoke Spani bh Hospital. fluently and had adopted a child She was 40. from Mexico. Mrs. Cumtley first fited suit Mrs. Cumley is survived by her against AH. Robins, the com- husband, J.D. Cumley. and two pany that sold the birth control adopted children, Adam, 9, and device, in 1975 after she developed = Alexandra, 4. an infection from the JUD. The president of Dalkon Shield Action Canada, Mrs. Cumley fought for compensation — for women who were damaged by the birth control device. She died Jast week of a brain tumor. 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