Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 26

Page 26 Thursday, May 5, I9B3 (Sattttt Abhj By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Yi LIMITED TIME ONLY! Oj INDIANA TV RCA have teamed up to OURLOWEST PRICE "jlT fefcfA 1 2(2) bonus ALREADY OWN $," 'JjSI A VIDEO DISC PLAYER? ji fs Wbk WELL THEN JOIN OUR special $rt95 I 1- H' 21 Za(2)J i INTRODUCTORY IIf'RST 11 I tS MEMBERSHIP JJ KM lSfefrU A XNli OFFER IL i I 2 Days $1.99 "SSJST MjVWWP 0.3'... LOWEST PRICEnil 1 Week S3. 99 700 7 il tELr DEAR ABBY: Henry I not his real namet and I hRve a fairly good marriage (U years, but we don't always see eye lo eye when it comes to disciplining our only child. Dougie, who is 8. Example: At dinner last night Dougie started talking with his mouth full, so I corrected him.

Then he belched loudly t. so I said. supposed to say. 'Excuse He ignored me. Then he turned lo his father and asked.

"Do have lo. Henry replied. "No, you don't. You can eat any way you please at home as long as you remember your manners when you're fating in a restaurant or in someone else's home." Then Henry said to me. "I wish you'd lay off the kid.

You're always picking on him for Something." i don't like to quarrel in front of our son. bul 1 wish you'd comment On this in your column, and I II serve it to mv husband for breakfast. -SILENT BUT SEETHING DEAR SILENT: It's possible lo disagree with your husband without being disagreeable. It would have been appropriate to teli him that good manners should be practiced at home in order to be remembered elsewhere. Bul there's something else going pn in your "fairly goud marriage" that's at least as important as manners.

Your son is using the "divide and Conquer" technique. Don't let him get away with it. You and Henry could profit by a short course in parenting. DEAR ABBY: My name is Sibyl 'and my friend's name is Myra. We've been friends for a long time, are both unmarried and in our late 20s.

We both enjoy (he company of jiien. but neither of us has anybody special right now. This bugs me. Myra and I will make a date to have dinner and talie in a movie one evening, and about 5 o'clock Myra calls to tell me "some man" just called and invited her out, so she won't be able to keep her with mc. I pretend 1 don't care and tell her Itogo ahead and have a good time.

I'm left high and dry. Am 1 wrong to feel hurl? And how should I handle it if il happens again? -SIBYL DEAIt SIBYL: You are not -wrong" to feel hurt, bul you are wrong to pretend ynu don't- care when you do. Don't wait until it happens again. Tell Myra now that when you and she make a date, it is not subject to cancellation should a mure appealing invitatiun 4 from a man or worn come along. DEAR ABBY: A very interesting point was raised in the letter signed vVtrgo on the Cape." Virgo wanted to keep hercx-mother-iti-law's fami-ly silver that had been given lo her 'and her husband when they were married, Since it had been in her husband's Tamily for several generations.

I hope she had the decencv to return it. have some lovely silver, linen and antiques that I would (ike to give to my only child a son bul I can't figure out how lo prevent their being "lost" in case of a divorce. If they left the family. I'd be heartbro-. ken.

Anv suggestions? -REALISTIC MOMMA DEAR REALISTIC: As Indelicate as it may scum, make il clear that these heirlooms are to remain in your son's family and get it in 'writing. If you assume that your marriage will end in divorce, 'you have a 51) percent chance of being right. (You're never too old lor loo -yoiing lo learn how to make friends and be popular. For Abby's booklet Popularity, send Si, plus a long. stamped K'1 cents) envelope to Abby.

Popularity, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood. Calif. 9D038.) Copyright 1983 Cnivertsl Prc Sjndtcnir Leadership program focus Kuckuck. assistant to the vice president of student affairs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, will conduct a program on leadership skills at 6 p.m.

Monday, May 7. the new lounge of the student un-idn. -The presentation is part of IHP's Sljc O'Clock Series, a continuing education program designed to raise student awareness on a variety of The series is sponsored by 'the New Student Orientation program. the May 2 program, participants will examine their leadership experiences and evaluate their own basic leadership style. Various leadership styles and ways to im-.

prove them will be discussed. In a later segment of the discussion, a brainstorming session is planned to discover a common student group goal and participants will collectively apply a model of success for that goal. ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE cut RICHARD MICHAEL Indiana County Commissioner M. Fit. Im, by "Mkhovl tot CmnhiW Pan Sight Trtomrcr.