'- * pletely spoiled my day. The

-: other day at a Flea Market, I-
7 .two light-weight —
- sweaters ‘for my
children. They were delight- —
_ ed with them and have worn
them almost _ continually
‘since then. I paid 15 cents for ~
one, and, for the expensive -
one I paid 25 cents. Now you
devastate me with the news. ™
that they were probably. _
-imitation. Doggone! Do you -
think I should tell the kids?

Golly, gee - I threw away 40 _

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group work. He can be.
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page 9 - December 29, ‘1976 - North Shere News

- QUESTION: Seems like I
quit everything I start. I'm 27
_ years oid and a bachelor. Pm
_. a bachelor because Pm a.
; ‘quitter. Three or four times

. Bow Pve get awful close to

getting married, but cach
time, I've been the one to
back off. P'm mot saying Pm

. the big shot because I was

QUESTION: How come they

let these Gea markets oper-

waste of good money. ©

STEWART: You have com-

bought
grand-

cents. If I had only known. |

QUESTION: My
-im-law, who fs 23, is dowdy

“and. biah abeut how she
_ and uses meke-up.. 1 am
> continually feeling sorry for

- her and, even more so for my

‘sen who ts her husband. She

‘really looks like she has no.
. taste af all. Sometimes I get

the feeling that she WANTS
to.-leck sloppy and even
objectionable. Could there be
some reason for that? Pve
GOT to do. something about
her appearance but I don’t
know whether I should talk to

my. son abcut her, or talk to

Ser .

“it: How can I quit this-awful
hebit Pve got into?
STEW

ART: You. list all
those ways in which you see
yourself as a quitter, then

you ask help in quitting one:

more thing! Perhaps you are

hy daughies. her imyself. Which way do

you think I should go? |

STEWABT: Away!
You mentioned two alter-
natives; talking to her and

‘talking to him. I have a third

for your thoughtful consider-

ation. It is this: Butt out! It is

just not true that you’ve

**GOT to do something about —
her appearance’’. Apparent- ©
ly she has been” attractive to.

your son: Thank God for that-
and let them be.

By Hazel Gubbins

--“*Bread and butter...sugar
and spoons: ‘and milk. --knives
- and forks. es

“It was six o'clock Christ-.

mas Eve. I was setting the
table for supper. when my

ing in a great gust of cold air.

**Hello, hello!’ He bent
‘over and ‘stood patiently
while my little brother and [
ran over to perform the daily.
ritual -of melting the icicles”
from his moustache and
eye-brows with our warm

= ‘hands.’

**How’s Mother?"’ He
went through to the room
where my mother had been
confined to bed for the past’

two months by the doctor's -

orders. I was about to follow
him when my ‘big § sister
started “bossing me . again.
She thought she had the.

right to because she was nine. .

and i was seven.

“When. you get tthe | table |

set you can bring in an
armful of wood. “~ ;

- ephat's: ‘boys! work,"* 1:
argited. **Where" $s Billie?"

" Billie was my big brother.
He was eleven and had a
paper route, but he was

supposed to keep the wood —

box full. Of course I. knew

where he.was. For.the past -

week every night after doing

his route he had been going
‘to Mr. Bartram’s store. He
-Said-he was learning the

-b ess.
Dad opened the door. bring- — usiness.

it wasn't fair but I Trough

‘in some wood anyway.

“Have you finished setting
the . table?" nagged my
‘sister. - s

“AM right. All right. "
.knives and forks...?... and

pepper and salt.

Billie hadnt yet. come
home when it was time for us
to go to bed. Snuggled up,
spoon fashion, with my sister

‘J thought ‘‘Maybe I should

worry about him.”’ But “f
went to sleep anyway.

Early Christmas morning

_.)° we heard Dad shaking the
_.< gtates and. building up the:
, _-fire as usual. After awhile he

‘ ‘called: “‘All right, children.

“It's warm enough to come

down.”

The’ open stairway was

7

built against the back wall of

“the room.”

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"All these years later I stili

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remember looking down into
that softly glowing lamp-lit

room in awe and wonder. I .-

can still see the flames
flickering through the mica-

_ panelled door ofthe Coleman
and the outside

heater.
windows with the double
**storms*’ completely frosted

ed to make the room cozier.

On the table stood a
Christmas Tree. Just a little
tree. about two feet high and
tied to the branches: with
white

very top was a tiny Eskimo

“I offer

as possible.”

~-small_ brown spot,
“over, which somehow seem- —

string ~ hung — one.
. present for each of us. At the

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“doll, dressed in white fur.

I'm ashamed to say I don’t
remember what the other

presents were. The -Eskimo_

doll was for me!

top, were lying at the foot of
the.tree. If the apple had a
if the
orange skin was slightly dry.
and some of the.candies a bit
snop. worn, we didn’t notice.
Bless you. Mr. Bartram.

It was several years before

I learned that Billie was §

“responsible for it ‘all, having

" spent the sum total of $1.25, ©
his whole pay | from the paper

route.

service and

and .leave a

Our stockings, filled to the”

ready to turn tie whole thing
around. Could you.. forget
about wanting to-quit® being a

-quitter.. and. instead, do -

yourself, the favour of start-
ing to be a finisher? Start
with little things. If you

decide to go to the corner.

store, go all the way! Finish
unimportant things and cele-

brate the unimportant victor- _

QUESTION: My daughter is

wi great long false.

- finger nails. She says. her

husband likes them, buat

honestly they look like claws.

he you think I should talk to
er?

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ies. But know, as you do it,
that you're getting ready to
finish more important things.
Turn it around. Be a finisher,

even in little things. Perhaps ©

. you could quit one more
thing. Quit talking to your-
self about being a quitter and
rather, give yourself a little
praise for ANYTHING you
finish. Turn it around!

~

98

STEWART: Sure - talk to her
- but not” about her nails.
She’s probably better equip-
ped than you are and you
may get scratched. Again I
say (see above) ‘‘Butt out’’.

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