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Satu-day, January 6, 1979 ITHACA JOURNAL 7 Eating chips and paying for calls 'anners BY JUDITH MARTIN r-1 WORD Chemistry SLEUTH Lesson company to charge it to your home number. Miss Manners suggests doing this in a loud voice, so that the host overhears it and does not have mixed feelings about you from the time you announced you were calling the folks in the old country to the time that his monthly bill arrives. to say that you have to say "excuse me" instead? Obviously, they both mean the same thing, and take the same time to say. What's the difference? DEAR READER: A pardon is more difficult to obtain than an excuse. If you don't believe Miss Manners about that, ask some of the prominent and supposedly influential people who have failed or even managed to obtain pardons.

For ordinary transgressions, it is easier to ask for an excuse. 0 DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have several friends who are gourmet cooks, and I enjoy eating at their homes. But I never know what to do when the host goes into the kitchen. Should I follow him to be sociable? Or stay in the living room doing what? One friend of mine got really irritated, it seemed to me, when I went into his kitchen to continue our conversation; another friend just kept shouting at me while she was in the kitchen and I was in the front room, until I felt I should go in there so she could converse without going hoarse. What would you do? DEAR READER: Ask.

By all means, you may ask Miss Manners, since Miss Manners knows everything, but you might also ask the individual cook if you should go into the kitchen or not. Some people enjoy entertaining in their kitchens, while others prefer that their guests not observe them sticking their fingers into the food, licking stirring spoons and other such maneuvers that good cooks perform. DEAR MISS MANNERS: What It the proper way to eat potato chips? DEAR READER: With a knife and fork. A fruit knife and an oyster fork, to be specific. For pity's sake, what is this world coming to? Miss Manners doesn't mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but feels that anyone who doesn't have the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it into his mouth probably should not be running around loose on the streets.

a a DEAR MISS MANNERS: How do you pay for a telephone call in someone else's house? It seems such a trivial matter that I feel like skipping it and assuming that my host will make a call in my house some day to even things up, but I've had people offer me change. I feel stupid taking a dime from a guest. On the other hand, I don't want anyone direct-dialing Tokyo on my bill, either. DEAR READER: Miss Manners feels you have two questions here, and would like to point out that local and long distance telephone calls are miles apart. For local calls, Miss Manners feels it is enough to say, "May I use your telephone?" without paying for the service; there are also pay toilets in public, but not in people's houses.

She is assuming, of course, that you are using it rarely (the telephone, not the toilet, which is properly used according to need) and not settling in to make your business calls. For long distance calls, it is a simple matter to ask the telephone Manners also has a pretty good idea that most people are well aware of how they can dress to shock or to conform; which they wish to do is up to them. If you are truly anxious to be safe in this case, Miss Manners assures you that no one will think a skirt improper. 0 0 0 DEAR MISS MANNERS: Do you like surprise parties? DEAR READER As a guest, certainly. They are an excellent way of catching a friend when he or she is emotionally and often physically unprepared to attend a party, and thus embarrassing someone under such a guise of friendship that it is impossible for that person to express outrage without sounding churlish.

As a guest of honor. Miss Manners loathes surprise parties, for the identical reasons. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am confused by changing fashions. I remember when it was considered dreadful to wear pants some restaurants wouldn't even admit you and then it became all right. But now it seems to be going back again, or am I wrong? My question Is: Is it still considered proper to wear pants to a luncheon? DEAR READER For a gentleman, always.

For a lady, local custom varies. Miss Manners got sick of the fight over pants long ago it was raging on a level with fights over lengths of hair for men, which is a poor excuse for a good fight. Miss accidvfnortcele muniiosuelcunoi aweoalkolilesom a i i x(ta i 0 i 0 glsti iokooether asonstdslcdeimd meteomianaeison gl0msuhetcos0si oypeisJlosisosio soelbatcidoirep i blevcompoundcs DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it true that "pardon me" is the v. rone thine by JO OUELLET WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS Solution: 12 letters Find tht Mittd word in tha diaaram. Thy rvn in all tflractiont forward, backward, up, down and diagonally.

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The letters are often used more than once to do not cross them out. It is best to find the big words first. When you find all the words listed in the clues you'll have a number of letters over which spell the Wonder-word THE OLD I USlClT STRHCRTPG AA.J.J.AALJLiiii....piiii.X 2.2.JlJlLL2.XLj3AARLj..A cjjjhsga AiJ.JlJ.?.A.AJ.iiiJJlLJl.. FNJJLTDA.AAAJAJ.J.Jl.li tglg i sbgyoygs1gns1ou" Spirit Stocking Surprises Sweet Tabs Tags Tinsel Trees Trimming Turkey Nice Parents Peer Place Poor Presents Punch Relations Santa Ja4taHMiakwlCw-tj9J CLUES Goods Grandchildren Grandfathers Grandmothers Guests Holly Home Humbugs Kind Kiss Lots Loving Meals Moods Mothers Daughters Dear Decorations Duck Eggnog Emotional Family Fathers Feelings Folk Food Gifts Girlfriends Giving Godfathers Godmothers Angels Bells Best Boss Boyfriends Brides Brothers Caring Carol Children Christ Churches Cool Cranberries Crib Dash JAN. 8-14, 1979 Wet ituff, rain and fluff.

Save hardwood ashes and use as garden fertilizer Full moon Jan. 13 Average length of days for the week, 9 hours, 17 minutes First shot fired in Civil War Jan. 9, 1860 Gray whales go south off California this week Congress legislated "a star for every state" in flag Jan. 13, 1794 who limps is still walking. Ask the Old Farmer: On the ceiling, fac- Uncle Warmth Wrapping Sentimental Sharing Sign Sisters Song Sons Soul EJ ing the fireplace, in an 18th-century 1 farmhouse in Vermont are four wrought-'j rlWlTi (I 'ron hooks.

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Greater New York-New Jersey: Rain and sleet all week. Middle Atlantic Coastal: Rain throughout the week. Piedmont Southeast Coastal: Heavy rain, snow west, throughout week. Florida: Showery all week; warming by week's end. Upstate NY-Toronto Montreal: Snow, heavier in the west and north; clear, very cold, then mild for last of week.

Greater Ohio Valley: Snow throughout the week; heavy west. Deep South: Sunny and seasonal with some showers to start; then rainy through week's end. Chicago at Southern Great Lakes: Seasonal snow, heavy west; then intermittent snow for rest of week. Rocky Mountain: Week starts with snow north, clearing in the south; colder by week's end. Southwest Desert: Light frost, partly cloudy; then sunny with cold nights south.

Pacific Northwest: Rain all week, heavy snow in mts. California: Week starts with rain, snow in cloudy at midweek, then rain snow for week's end. (All Rtghn Rnrrvtd. Yankee. Inc.

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DIRECTIONS: Rearrange each row of letters to form a 2- to 7-letter word. To total points of your wordt, use scoring directions to right of each row. 7-letter words get 50-potnt bonus. "Blanks" used as any letter have no point value. Proper nouns, foreign, slang or hyphenated words are forbidden.

1979 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Answers are on Page 16.