Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • 13

Monday, September 25, 1978 13A Hygiene ads anger reader 7:309:30 George Burns Terri Garr OH GOD" PGfc Advice 1 Kathleen Nortlmood Mill 385-7555 LIOyQ 6:007:45 9:30 'IT'S ALIVE PART PG if Burt Reynolds 7:309:30 "HOOPER" I. II. Mill 385-9000 By Ann Landers II 1 1 I.I 1 1 i K0Teq No Under 18 385.9000 admitted "FAIRY TALES" fell Dear Ann: You are a national sounding board, but if you print this letter you will be lambasted from some of the biggest companies in the country. You haven't shied away from a fight yet, and I'm hoping you'll be equal to this one. Here goes: I've had it with "women's hy- giene" commercials on TV.

Sanitary pads, tampons, douches, suppositories and deodorants are flaunted in our faces at all hours of the day and night. and many others, consider this an invasion of privacy, in bad taste, degrading to women and embarrassing. I am infuriated by all the "stay-fresh" feminine junk that is pushed on us. Any doctor will tell you that washing with soap and water is enough. Nature takes care of the rest.

Those big, rich companies in- Open Starts No. 1 "BUCKST0NE COUNTY PRISON" 7:45 No. 2 "CHECKERED FLAG OR CRASH" 319 877-1828 would not be hired because they have a policy against taking on relatives. I would like to know if this is legal or is the company violating the Fair Employment Practice Law? Name Withheld Dear N.W: It is perfectly legal for a companyto have a policy that prohibits hiring relatives. This particularly makes sense for an airline.

The chances are a million to one against it, but if you and your husband were working on the same ill-fated plane, your children could be orphans in a split second. Are your parents too strict? Hard to reach? Ann Landers' booklet, "Bugged By Parents? How to Get More Freedom," could help you bridge the generation gap. Send 50 cents in coin with your request and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope to Ann Landers, in care of The Democrat, P.O. Box 990, Tallahassee, Fla. 32302.

time. Those big guys will get the message where it hurts right in their profit and loss statements and we once again will be able to enjoy an evening in front of the TV In Peace Dear Peace: Thank you for saying what a great many women have been thinking for a long time. I've received a load of letters on this subject. You said it best. Dear Ann Landers: Several months ago, I applied for a job with a well-known airline.

My husband is employed there. I received a response saying they had a job opening and I should call to set up an interview. I did call and was told they would get back to me in a week or so. Several weeks went by and I heard nothing, so I called again. I was told there was a freeze on hiring and they would let me know as soon as they resumed interviewing.

The other day my husband went to the airline employment office to check on my status. He was told I IfV Coming Soon "UP IN SMOKE" Cheech Chong Monday thru Thursday, September 25 thru 28 1 2 oz. wB5Ha vors strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, lemon and lime. In the U.S. and Canadian markets, as in no other, women control the purse strings.

I am calling on all women of every age, everywhere, to write to the companies advertising the garbage. Tell them you're fed up. Then prove it. Don't buy any of the intimate products you see advertised on TV until the ads come off the air. There are plenty of non-advertised products to use in the mean suit our intelligence wnen tnev ten SB" us we may be offensive to others if we don't douche, deodorize, and use all those crazy products.

I couldn't believe it when they came out in fla- DINNER Phantom pain tough to overcome Health JkUppW I I Use Either Entrance REAR ENTRANCE BEHIND THE MALL FRONT ENTRANCE ON LOWER LEVEL N0RTHW00D MALL By George Thosteson M.D. 7 LOWER LEVEL 224-1265 Open 5 to 11 Mon. thru Sat. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Would you please discuss phantom pain? My brother had a leg removed after an accident.

He still has a lot of pain. Is this inevitable? He takes pain-killing drugs every few hours, and has to take a healthy drink of brandy before going to bed. Otherwise, he is doing fine walking on his artificial leg. How can he get rid of the W.M. Phantom pain, once it begins, is difficult to control.

Strangely enough, phantom pain (pain felt as though originating in the amputated limb), does not occur under age 6. In adults, it may be severe enough to require strong pain killers. It can be due to something as easily correctible as a poorly fitted prosthesis (artificial limb). Commonly it is caused by a neuroma (nerve tumor) at the end of a severed nerve. A nerve end may become imbedded in scar tissue to cause it, or there may not be sufficient muscle padding in the stump.

A tumor may form at the end of the severed bone. In other cases, pain partly may be psychological, related to the loss of the limb. This is, of course, of no help to your brother at this stage. Rather he should return to the surgeon and attempt to uncover one of the causes mentioned above. He also should inquire about the use of alcohol.

It is not to be used with certain pain-killing drugs. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Would it be harmful to eat only broiled chicken and a few lettuce leaves three days in a row to lose weight, and would it be okay to use this diet once a month until you lose your desired pounds? J.C.B. There's no harm in the broiled chicken-lettuce program, but it's questionable whether using it for three days a month will produce much loss. To be effective you have to be on a lowered calorie intake continuously, not sporadically.

This is one of the "lost secrets" of reducing I mention in my booklet on the subject. Broiled chicken and lettuce might be a palatable lunch or dinner, but it leaves much to be desired as breakfast fare, for example. For a more sensible program see the booklet, "Lost Secrets of Reducing." Readers may obtain it by sending 50 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to me in care of The Democrat, P.O. Box 990, Tallahassee, Fla. 32302.

Dear Dr. Thosteson: During a routine examination, my doctor discovered warty growths in my vagina. He said they were venereal warts and also said they are transmitted only through intercourse with an infected person. My husband has no evidence of this. We have been happily married for 25 years, are not promiscuous, and have complete sexual fulfilment.

Though the warts were removed after one treatment, the question remains as to how I may have contracted the virus. Mrs. G.W. Such warts usually are transmitted sexually. They are due to a virus.

One might speculate that you were susceptible to the virus and your husband was not. One point in your letter leads me to question the diagnosis of venereal warts and suspect, rather, some other form of vaginal growth. I say this because treatment of venereal warts is complicated, lengthy and quite painful. You mention you re-guired only one treatment. it was cne ueicas against the the rules lost! A moving stnrv A romantic story A stnr of cmy, halml, friendship, triumph, and lovi-.

4 If any of these causes can be pinpointed, the problem can be corrected. Much phantom pain has been prevented in recent years by use of new techniques immediately after surgery. IPOP (immdeiate post-surgical prosthese) is one. The stump is covered with a rigid (plaster of paris) dressing and a temporary artificial limb attached. The patient is encouraged to use the device about 24 hours after surgery, increasing the weight bearing on a day to day basis.

In one study, not a single case of phantom pain was reported using this tiiMv re. -m I SHIHI.KY Mad.MNK. mi im i ANNK KVM R(T TheTiiming point My Skelton last of great clowns Answer I it NATIONAL LAMPeeif-. AM1HAL By L. DAVID HARRIS by Biffy Graham 1 Someone out 5 000 fiinei in the pool right before the iwlm meat.

Who would (to wc tWw 1 DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I recently have accepted Jesus as my Savior, but there is so much in my old life that is holding me back. My wife is a prob- lem because she laughs at my faith. Do you think maybe God wants me to leave her and start all over again? C.G. DEAR C.G.: No, I do not.

I believe God wants you to be the best possible husband you can be, and by your life and words win your wife to Christ. I Hi INCKI DIHI I Si ARCH IIIA1 Hi tAMt THE MOM HAMILL 4NNIE Of Al I i ne tsiDie deals with this Droblem in 1 Corinthians 7, and you may want to study that passage carefully. In the city of Corinth there apparently were many people who had become Chris- 1 i. 1 i AND THE ARGONAUTS MARK HAMILL ANNIE POTTS CORVETTE SUMMER 1 When does he feel closest to God? "When I'm talking to people," he said. "You see, I've never met God in person.

But the next guy just might be him. So that's why I look for the goodness in everybody. I've never found an ugly person in my life. I've found people who may do things to make themselves ugly." What about people who take advantage of him and hurt him? How does he feel about them? "When somebody hurts me, I think of five of the nicest things I can about that person. If I'm hurt a second time, I think of five of the nicest things I can about the person, not including any of the five the first time.

If I'm hurt a third time, I light a candle. I pretend the person's dead. You have respect for the dead. You can't bring them back and I forget them." Really? No joking? "That's not a joke, that's how I handle it." And Red Skelton painter, musician, author. He draws and paints constantly.

He has a mail-order business for his art work. At least five national commercials on television use music he has composed. He has a contract to supply compositions for the Muzak system. And he writes too. "I start my day off at 5:30 or 6 each morning," he said.

"I write a love letter to Mrs. Skelton each morning with a drawing to illustrate something in the letter. "Then I write five musical selections. I carry this little piano with me and record them. I give them to a music secretary.

"I write one idea for a short story each day. On Sundays, I take the best of the six short-story ideas and I'll work on it and make a complete story. So I have 365 short-story ideas each year and 52 completed short Knight-Ridder wire HUTCHINSON, Kan. Red Skelton on stage. He's the "last of the great clowns." A master of mime, a consummate story-teller, the guardian angel of the best jokes in the world.

When he tells jokes, they seem too good to be new. Red's characters Freddy, Clem, Gertrude and Heathcliffe, San Fernando Red are a part of Americana. His jokes are delicious. "Actually, I don't do jokes," he said. "They sound like jokes, but it's the way I say them.

The audience either sees themselves in that position or if it's too close to them, they say, 'I know a guy just like But Red Skelton offstage. The "last of the great clowns" he isn't. He's wary of clowns. "They frighten children too much," he said. He's a painter, musician, writer, reader of classics.

He's a Lincoln scholar, a photographer. But don't worry. He's still a storyteller, a comic. And a charmer. He has more infectious, pure charm than 404 cherubs.

At 65, he still has a boyish, mischievous quality. But it's an innocent sort of mischief. As innocent as country roads and boyhood itself. What's the secret for comedy? "To love your fellow man," he said in an interview before his appearance at the Kansas State Fair here. "You've got to be able to see humor in life where others can't.

And you've got to be able to love your fellow man so much that you can mime him without disliking him completely. "Incidentally, I never had any formal training in pantomime. I'd done it for years, and someone walked up to me and said, 'You know, you're one of the finest pantomime artist I've ever "Well, I didn't even know what pantomime was, so I finally looked it up in the dictionary to see if there nans, diuiuugu uieir spouses naa noi. The Bible tells us, "If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him" (1 Corinthians New International Version).

STARTS JMVMi FRIDAY 1 fill The Red Skelton Freddie the Freeloader was such a word. I thought, 'I didn't know I was a I was just going out there and being natural and letting people use their imaginations. That's the strongest part of comedy you can image things!" What makes Red Skelton laugh? "Normal things." he said. "On the plane coming here, I went into hysterics. I ate two dinners on the plane.

I don't know why. I never did it before. "The little girl said to me, 'Well, you must fly with us and have dinner with us And I said, 'How about And it just hit me funny and I started to laugh and she said, 'You want another And I said, 'You have And I ate everything on the plate! "And people I laugh at people. Because I love them so much." Does that have to do with religion? What about the phrase he uses so often, "may God bless?" "I say 'may God bless' to people because I want them fo find the same happiness that I've found. After all, God is good.

'Willi imsRf Pray for your wife, and pray that you will be a loving, effective witness for Christ. Do not get angry with her over her attitude toward your Christian faith; instead, show her that Jesus Christ has made a difference in your life. Peter spoke of wives with unbelieving husbands who would "be won over without talk by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence df your lives" (1 Peter NIV). Your life should show forth Christ to your wife. You will need constant strength from God, as you come to Him in prayer and read His Word.

As you read the Bible you will see more and. more the kind of person God intends you to be, and He can be trusted to give you. FfllliVilllil WHY BE DIFFERENT? By Quinton M. Burks II In a great many respects Seventh- Day Adventists are in harmony with the Christian world in general. For instance, we believe in Jesus Christ, in forgiveness of sins through His shed blood at the Calvary.

We believe there is only one way to heaven, and that is through Our Lord, through His grace, His blood, and that we can never earn or deserve eternal life or in any way work our way to heaven. We believe that Jesus will come again, that there will be a resurrection of the dead and everlasting life for all those who have trusted Him as Savior. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. the onlv rule of fnith nnH k. Ir PRESENTS JESSE 7 that it is powerful and up to date and meets the needs of modern man ano mar it contains all we need to know for salvation.

We believe the story of creation, that man was formed by the hands of God and that this world and all the universe are the works of His wisdom. We believe in the Trinity, in the virgin birth of Christ, in baptism by water and the Srjirit. Then hnw Su.ntt..rw SEPT. 25th thru 30th SHOWS AT 10 12 P.M. $2 COVER $3 COVER FRI.

SAT. COMING TALLAHASSEE'S OWN OTTICE YAWN AND SOUTHERN GOLD Adventists different? First, we believe in God's Ten Commandments, that God gave them for all mankind and that if we love God, we will keep them. We believe in healthful living, that our bodies ore the temples of God and that we should care for the body by abstaining from all harmful indulgences which might weaken our efficiency. We believe there are some things we should not drink and should not eat because God says they are harmful or unclean and that we will be happier and healthier if we will obey His rules of health We believe that man is mortal, subject to death, and any hope we have beyond the grave must center in Christ who is Himself the Resurrection and the Life. We believe the dead in Christ will be raised at His second coming and will then be forever with Him and that between the moment of death and the second coming of Christ the clouds of heaven ihat the person remains in his grave unaware of any passing of time, awaiting rtie return of the Life Giver.

We believe, too, os our name implies, in keeping the fourth of the Ten Commandments which says we are to keep the Sabbath holy. We believe theSabbath is still on the seventh day of the week ust as Good mode it in the beginning and that man has no right or power to moke a change in i the law of God Really, are we so very different when you compare us with the Bible? Maybe the real difference is with those who have wandered away from the true doctrines of God's Seventy-Day Adventist Church P.O. Box 3102 Tallahassee, Florida 32303 3505 S. MONROES 877-1822 877-0361.