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Sentinel Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995 D-7 For safety's sake, keep appliances unplugged tal, where the girl was pronounced dead. The boy was hospitalized in critical condition." And now, dear readers, one more word from Ann: It takes only a second for a heart-breaking tragedy to occur. Please keep your electrical appliances unplugged and out of the reach of young children. Dear Ann Landers: My family was invited to a relative's house to go swimming and have dinner.

When our relatives issued the invitation, they said they planned to eat at 6:30. I was reluctant to accept because our youngest child, a toddler, goes to bed quite early and I didn't think it would be wise to keep him up that late. We agreed to be there at 3 p.m. and have dinner earlier. When we arrived, the husbands and children went to the pool, and the wife told her husband to be back at 5:30 to start up the grill.

I began to feel uneasy when she brought out three medium-sized steaks to feed four adults and three children. When she used an alcoholic beverage to marinate the steaks, I told her to please leave the alcohol off mine because I'm pregnant. That's when I found out she was only planning to prepare dinner for three. When the meat was done, she allowed me to share my steak with my children. However, there weren't enough vegetables or potatoes to go around.

I asked if there were any more, and she said, "No, but you can take some off everyone else's plates." I was appalled. By the time we actually sat down, it was 7 p.m. My kids were hungry and cranky, and so was I. That small amount of steak was all we had. These people are my husband's relatives, and I didn't want to start anything.

My husband wasn't aware of what was going on, and I didn't want to go into it. As soon as "dinner" was over, we left. There is no way we can duck future dinner invitations, which I dread. Any advice for next time? Dumbfounded, No State Please Dear D.F.: Yes. Eat at home before you go over there.

Gem of the Day: It is no compliment to be told, "Your mind is like a blotter. You soak up everything." Remember, blotters get it all backward. Creators Syndicate Inc. lEAR ANN LANDERS: You have printed several Independent Electrical Contractors, Florida Dear Thomas Schmid: Thank you for what could be lifesaving information for my millions of readers. Here's the article.

Bless you for sending it on. "A 4-year-old girl was electrocuted and her 3-year-old brother critically injured when one of them dropped a plugged-in hair dryer into the tub with them. "The county sheriffs deputy said the children were in the tub when their mother left them for a moment, and one child apparently got out of the tub and returned columns about the impor tance ot unplugging kitchen appliances when not in use. I am enclosing an article that appeared in the International Association of Electrical Inspectors News. It is gripping testimony for unplugging BATHROOM appliances as well.

Please print this article in your column so that parents may learn from it. My heart goes out to the mother of the children involved in this tragic accident. Thomas W. Schmid, executive director, Ann Landers with a hair dryer that was plugged in. The dryer was apparently then dropped into the tub.

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(R) (1 :00) 84418 Take a suit, any suit By Phillip Alder We have all seen magicians who offer a deck of cards to a "victim." The person takes a card, any card. At the end of the trick the magician will name the card. There are many variations on this theme. At the bridge table, it may be a matter of deciding not which card to pick, but which suit to pick. Sometimes this happens in the bidding and sometimes in the play.

Today's deal is an example of the latter. After North had made a limit raise of three spades, South, who might have opened two no-trump, took a shot at the slam West led the club king. South won with the ace and cashed his top trumps, learning that he had a loser there. Now South's only chance was to discard both of his club losers before West could ruff in and cash the club queen. As he had so few diamonds, South attacked that suit first.

However, West ruffed the third round and cashed a club trick: one down. "Wow, how unlucky can one be!" exclaimed South. "We have only five diamonds and they break 6-2." "True," said North. "But suppose West doesn't ruff the third diamond. What do you do then?" "I play on hearts, of course," replied South sarcastically.

"And you need West to have at least three hearts to make the contract. So you should play hearts before diamonds. And when West turns up with four, you take that discard first. Then it doesn't matter that West has only two diamonds. When he ruffs in, you have no club loser left." 1995 NEA Celebrity cipher Daytime movies VCR Plus The number at the end of each program listing is a PlusCode.

These codes are used to set your VCR to tape a program by entering the number into the VCR Plus device, if you own one. (Additional numbers correspond to multiple channels carrying the program.) For programming help, call 1-800-432-1827. For information, call 1-800-258-4827. 10'00 Movie The Dangerous EJ Movie From Iran: Days of Kiowa Jones" (1966) 532789 The Canadian Caper" (1981) 456234 (2:00 (2oo) 2:00 Vi tm Movie it "Don't Go to Sleep" Move story- (1982)4742654 (2:00) (1954)387166 (2:00) V'fiSS3 1:00 4.00 Movie "Family Secrets" Move People Across yf (1984)438334 (2:00) the Lake" (1988) 827673 (2:00) by Luis Campos 'Legends' makes a strong showing at the box office Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present Each letter in ihe cipher stands for another. Today's clue: equals The famous face you'll never see Anonymity is just fine with 'Home Improvements' Wilson RTBD HWD RYNTDAH XDZAEJ MWE DODZ RTODV.

TH'A YLYNTJU HE LD DODJ ATH (MZTHDZ) SZYJ RDFEMTHN. PREVIOUS SOLUTION: "I could get out (of prison) on Tuesday and beat George Foreman on Wednesday." Mike Tyson. 1995 by NEA. Inc. 18 Today's birthdays Movie director John Boorman is 62.

Singer-songwriter Bobby Golds-boro is 54. Comedian-singer-musician Brett Hudson is 42. Actor-director Kevin Costner is 40. On this date sal, $10 million, 1,729 locations, $5,795 per location, $10 million, one week. 4.

"Dumb and Dumber," New Line, $9.5 million, 2,533 locations, $3,742 per location, $91 million, five weeks. 5. "Nobody's Fool," Paramount, $7.1 million, 792 locations, $9,019 per location, $7.7 million, four weeks. 6. "Houseguest," Disney, $6.4 million, 1,604 locations, $3,975 per location, $13.5 million, two weeks.

7. "Disclosure," Warner $5.6 million, 1,948 locations, $2,899 per location, $69.5 million, six weeks. 8. "Little Women," Columbia, $4.6 million, 1,535 locations, $3,005 per location, $33.7 million, four weeks. 9.

"Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book," Disney, $4.3 million, 1,796 locations, $2,380 per location, $33.2 million, four weeks. 10. "Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog," 20th Century Fox, $4.2 million, 1,217 locations, $3,477 per location, $4.2 million, one week. 11. "Nell," 20th Century Fox, $3.5 million, 1,236 locations, $2,836 per location, $23.8 million, five weeks.

12. "Richie Rich," Warner $3.1 million, 1,664 locations, $1,843 per location, $31.8 million, four weeks. 13. "I.Q.," Paramount, $2.7 million, 1,412 locations, $1,935 per location, $21.7 million, four weeks. The Associated Press 6T ECENDS of the Fall" JJfinished first at the box office during the holiday weekend with $14 million, topping "Higher Learning's" debut of $13.3 million.

"Legends of the Fall" moved to the top of the chart in its first week of wide release after three weeks at a limited number of locations. Of new films in release, "Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight" opened well but "Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog" did not. "Nobody's Fool" was strong as it moved to more cities and "Dumb and Dumber" closed in on the $100 million mark. Susan Sarandon's "Safe Passage" disappeared after a month of release and "Speechless" continued to free-fall after five weeks. Here are the top movies at U.S.

and Canadian theaters from Friday through Monday, followed by studio, gross, number of screens, receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Tuesday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. from actual returns and studio estimates: 1. "Legends of the Fall," TriS-tar, $14 million, 2,005 locations, $7,002 per location, $15 million, four weeks. 2.

"Higher Learning," Columbia, $13.3 million, 1,409 locations, $9,423 per location, $17 million, IVi weeks. 3. "Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight," Univer By STEVEN COLE SMITH Fort Worth Star-Telegram OFTEN HEARD but seldom seen actually, his face is never seen on TV Earl Hindman is the only star of the top-rated ABC situation comedy, "Home Improvement," who can dine in a restaurant or shop in a store without being mobbed. That's because Hindman's character, Wilson, is always photographed with his face mostly hidden by a fence, or a floppy hat, or shadowy lightning. Wilson is the next-door neighbor of the main character, Tim Taylor (Tim Allen), and he often dispenses his wise advice to Tim from behind that backyard fence.

The character of Wilson was a collaboration between Allen and the producers, Hindman said this week during an appearance at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. "I like the anonymity," he said. "I like being able to go out to a restaurant, a bar, whatever, and not be recognized and harassed like everybody else would be." However, Hindman's mother was initially annoyed at not being able to see her son's face. "But now she's my biggest fan," he said. "And she complains when she 'can' see me.

Occasionally, we'll get a shot of my mouth or something, and she'll call and say. 1 like being able to go out to and not be recognized and harassed like everybody else would Earl Hindman 'Earl, I saw your face last night. I think someone is screwing up over there. You better talk to your Hindman's face hasn't always been hidden. The journeyman stage actor spent nine years on the soap opera "Ryan's Hope," and he has been in a variety of made-for-TV movies, including "Stay the Night," "War and Remembrance" and "Murder in Coweta County," and guest-starred in series like "Kojak" and "The Equalizer." But now, the Arizona-born actor is happy where he is.

"It's wonderful being on the top-rated show on television," he said. "Because at my age, it hit right at the time where it can set me up financially for the remainder of my very short life." Will we ever see Wilson's face? "I don't think we'll ever see him, no," he said. On Jan. 18 1778: English navigator Capt. James Cook discovered the Hawai- Answer to Monday's puzzle sLEETriANTEriT aTr ian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich Islands." 1892: comedian Oliver Hardy was born in Harlem, Ga.

1912: English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first. (Scott and his party died during the return trip.) 1919: the World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France. 1967: Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Stran-gler," was convicted in Cambridge, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed by a fellow inmate in 1973.).