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i Minneapolis Star and Tribune 'rfmmxs Saturday September 171933 1C 818 Batallion reunion 4C aders share thoir bost 3d vie Never talk back to your parents unless you want to live in a boarding school. When I first began dating, my dad told me, "You've got to put some strings on yourself. Girls who go hog-wild over boys end up washing baby diapers." My brother spent his junior year of college in France on an exchange program. As Bill boarded the plane, our father said, "Don't let books interfere with your education." This same man also advised me, "Good things come to those who hustle while they wait." Annie Sillman Minneapolis Buyer of regional books for B. Dalton Bookseller We asked readers of Neighbors to give us the best advice they ever got.

We received hundreds of responses, some by mail, some left by visitors to the Star and Tribune booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The Sixth graders In John Mallander's class at Elm Creek school, Maple Grove, each sent us three pieces of wisdom. We got all kinds of advice, from how to keep brown sugar soft (put it an Jar with a slice of white bread on top and cover the jar) to how to have a happy marriage. Several people suggested, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and "People respond better to honey than vinegar." Other favorites were "Don't eat yellow snow" and "Drive like everybody else on the road is crazy." Here are some we liked and a few we thought were really weird. Peg Meier and Dave Wood Neighbors reporters Never suppress a sneeze.

Nikolina Wolner Edina Housewife I was in a tizzy over moving our wedding gifts to our new home and was quite snappish with the volunteers in charge of transporting the crystal. Concerned over this developing set of priorities that put my possessions over the feelings of people, Mom took me aside to say, "A lady never owns anything she can't break gracefully." In 10 years of marriage we've had to replace a lot of glasses, but no friends. Jackie Saunders Mounds View Coordinator of gifted education My father, Lawrence Gibson, told me when I was growing up, "Think of something you like to do. Then find someone foolish enough to pay you to do it." Stuart D. Gibson Eagan Attorney for the IRS If your plant book advises watering your house plants with tepid water, don't go to Bachman's to purchase some.

Eloise Peterson Minneapolis Former customer service employee at Bachman's Don't marry a knight in shining armor unless you want to spend half your life polishing it for him. Minneapolis Nurse Never lie to someone. Then you don't have to remember what you said. Gaile Tripp Mora, Minn. Housewife Listen to your guts.

Jean O'Keefe Hopkins Don't worry about money and dying Heather Gorath they never left anyone on top of Fairmont, Minn. the ground yet. Student Eva Hintz Howard Lake, Minn. Farm wife Be yourself. KariKisch Maple Grove 11 years old Remind your husband of your upcoming birthday or anniversary.

That's better than having two unhappy people if he should forget. Charlotte Schmidt Minneapolis Senior citizens activity coordinator During my college days I worked for a Minnesota road construction company in the summers. Willie, the crew foreman, was savvy about life. I found his advice applicable over the subsequent 20 years. He said, "Byron, you're good at this job.

But never forget your replacement may be better!" and "Always get the easiest jobs out of the way first. It wiH make you look like you can do more than the guy who gets the hard ones on the next shift." Byron J. Hoogwerf St. Louis Park M.D., University of Minnesota Hospitals Never eat fried worms without ketchup and mustard. Shawn Tusler Maple Grove Age 11 Never pet flaming dogs.

Timothy Pratt Scandia, Minn. Laboratory technician From Grandpa Tyson: Give flowers to people while they're still alive to enjoy them rather than at the funeral. Dawn Tyson Minneapolis From the Rev. Jerry Chenoweth: A woman should never marry a man thinking she is going to change him. A man should never marry a woman thinking she is going to remain the same.

Eunice Golfis Wayzata Postal carrier Advice 3C v. illliii 9-r H- torn down in 1929. A1 IMIiil Lenice Hooverson Bloomington Store manager When prayer and your light meter fail, shoot at f8. Susan Pence Minneapolis Army Reserve photographer and General Mills home economist Don't whisper in an ear that has a hearing aid in it. Lizabeth Rosendahl Minneapolis Housewife I had my first child at age 30.

1 had not been around infants much and I was apprehensive about caring for such a tiny human. One of the Fairview Hospital nurses asked if I had any questions, and I wailed, "I've never been a mother before!" She said, "Oh, don't worry about that. He's never been a baby before, so he isn't going to notice." Susan Erickson Mankato, Minn. Mother and dog trainer When you're done, quit. John Haugland Watson, Minn.

Farmer Never put a plate of food under a bird cage. Carl Kremer Bloomington Student Back of the Washburn orphanage being the town and tell the people. "I grew up in thi3 neighborhood, went to Page School, Ramsey Junior High and Washburn. I took the usual history courses. They were OK, but no big deal as far as I was concerned.

I majored in geography at the University of Minnesota. But when my wife Barb and I bought a house in the neighborhood, it got me going on it. I got interested in the water tower and sort of went from there, i guess I'm more interested in the broader scope i vmVC jffT rw If you burn your fingers on a match or by picking up a hot pan or dish, put your burned fingers to the front of your ear lobe, your thumb behind the ear lobe, and press lightly on the ear lobe for a short time. It works real good. It will take away the pain almost right away, even if the burn is more severe.

Now, if you burn your elbow, you will have to find someone else's ear lobe to press it against. Janny LaBresh Plymouth demands prosecutors Researcher brings neighborhood's past to life Things my mother told me: Never go up or down stairs without carrying something. And, always sleep next to the wall. Then he'll have to get up first when the baby cries. Phyllis Engel Minneapolis When you have big brothers, prepare for death.

Brenda Lingren Maple Grove 11)4 years old I was 17 going on 18 and 900 miles from home, starting out college life in a dorm full of strangers. I received a birthday card from my Mom in which she wrote, "if you're feeling lonely and scared," (how did she know, I wondered), "go out of your room and find others in the dorm and get some laughing started. They feel the same as you." I did and it worked. I learned on that September day 26 years ago how to participate in a cycle of good cheer. Beth Mackey Roseville The way to accumulate money is to keep too busy to spend it.

Mrs. R. Sonnenberg Edina Housewife Blue Suit Act a redress of Larry Batson "On the last night before the Labor Day recess, Congress overwhelmingly voted approval of the Criminal Clarification Act, popularly known as the Blue Suit Act." So states an article in Case and Comment, a legal newsletter. Mark J. Zimmermann, an assistant U.S.

attorney in Kansas City, wrote it. The Blue Suit Act, hd said, requires that, "Any attorney appearing on behalf of theUnited States, its departments or agencies as a prosecutor in a criminal case in any court of the United States shall be clad in a dark blue suit." That's it, Zimmermann said. The I 1 11 A whole act. It enjoyed overwhelming support of the Justice Department, among the -judiciary, and from the White House. In fact, its origin can be traced to the administration's austerity program.

The underlying problem, Zimmermann wrote, is that cheaper new government pens leak when the barometer falls. Indeed, "it is welt known that several federal meteorologists began predicting forthcoming thundershowers by counting ink stains on their shirts." Federal prosecutors were in a quandary, Zimmermann noted. Dark blue suits do not show ink stains. They could buy new suits, but that was a costly procedure. However, if the suits were made mandatory, many lawyers felt they would be a tax-deductible item.

Among other reasons, he wrote, "many prosecutors were, justly or not, accused of always wearing the same suit "it was increasingly difficult" forjudges to distinguish prosecutors from defendants, who in many cases were better dressed "several embarrassing incidents" occurred as a result. Once a clause forbidding defense attorneys and defendants from Batson 8C Tom Balcom By Dave Wood Staff Writer When Tom Balcom bought a house in the Washburn neighborhood, he figured he not only made an investment in real estate, but also in the neighborhood. To nurture both investments, Balcom works by day as an environmentalist, by night as an historical researcher. Balcom, 36, tries to find out everything he can about the history of the neighborhood and then develop strategies to wake than I am hi architecture. I like to find out how neighborhoods get started, how they interact with the city as a whole." Thus was born Mill City History Associates, Balcom's one-man historical research company.

His research shows up in neighborhood newspapers. Like his two-part story about wheeler-dealer Col. William S. King that appeared in April in the Southside Journal. And a Tangletown News story about how the Orphanage.