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FRIDAY JUNRH, 1S7 'Your Problems' By Ann Landers Nurses Not In I nif orms Why Friends? r'l I'd appreciate a word from you on this subject. Still Blushing In Longview Dear Longview: Humorless people get invited out more than pigs. I'm in your corner, dearie. CONFIDENTIAL to Dead End: The end that's dead is in your head. Stop wasting time and energy trying to pin the blame on "the guilty party." Devote your time to another project.

No wound will heal if you continue to pick at it. sneak gum out of her purse and deny it and put catsup on everything she cooks to kill the taste. Friends will not tell you what they really think even when you make them swear to tell you what they really think. Friends are for talking you into a dress you would kill for even when you can't afford it, you can't wear a slip or bra with, it doesn't fit and it makes you look like a bean bag chair from the rear. A friend will hear you say on the phone.

"I've got to go now: someone is at the door." and believe you. What are friends really for? If you have to ask. you can't afford one. with you when your husband, buy's you an electric clipper to shave the dog's rump for your birthday and not pointing out how your husband is a good provider, is not a chronic boozer, and doesn't fool around with other women. Friends are for not pointing out that people who wear their blouses on the outside have something to hide.

Friends don't write you a letter and won't write again until you respond because it's "your turn." Friends can't stand all the people you can't stand at the same time and for the same reasons. Friends are for having children who do not speak metric like a native Met. '4'' One of the most often-asked questions in the world is, "What are friends for?" People ask it and they don't even think about it. Usually, the question is asked when they've been stuck with some inconvenience. No one has addressed themselves to the answer of "What are friends for?" until now.

Friends are for not going on a diet when you are fat, getting a tax refund when you had to pay or having a good time at a party to which you haven't been invited. It's being pregnant at the exact same time as you are not a month before. A friend is for telling you about your old boyfriend who is now a tormented priest, but not mentioning the boyfriend who married a beautiful girl and is an executive with Texas Instrument with stock options. Friends are for siding in Dear Ann Landers: I work in the office of a small hospital in Illinois. The RNs and I have had a running argument for two years.

It isn't mandatory any more for the nurses to wear their caps and uniforms, and very few do on our shift. I think this is a terrible mistake. The nurses work awfully hard for those caps; moreover, it is very confusing to patients when they are not in uniform. When patients ask questions of office personnel and cleaning women, we tell them they should ask a nurse. They invariably say, "Who are the nurses?" We must then describe them: "She's the one with the red hair," or "the tall one with glasses." Our nurses work side by side with the aides taking care of the patients, yet I've heard many people say, "I never saw a nurse the whole time I was in the hospital." We are all waiting to hear what Ann Landers has to say on this subject.

How about it? Staunch But Out regulations. I hate to see them go. Twern't Funny Dear Ann Landers: Last night we went to a church supper. The food was set up buffet style. Guests were supposed to help themselves and then sit down at tables for eight which were set up all over the hall.

When supper was announced I looked all over for my husband and couldn't find him anyplace. Finally I got into the buffet line with my sister and her husband. When I reached the vat of spaghetti I saw. him and my face turned ten shades of red. My husband had pulled up a chair to the buffet table and was packing the food in like there was no tomorrow.

I told him to get up and carry his plate in line with us, but he paid no attention, so I numbered Dear Staunch: There's something professional, competent-looking and reassuring about a gleaming white, well-fitted nurse's uniforms, complete with the cap perched on the head. It stands for something, in the same way that the collar of a religious order stands for something. Anyone can wear a blouse and skirt or a house dress. They look ordinary. Hospitals that do not insist their nurses wear uniforms lose a great deal.

For sure there is much confusion among the patients. They feel better when attended by a nurse in uniform. That uniform gives them confidence that someone trained is looking af terthem. And let's face it, not everyone has taste. The uniform can be a great help to a woman who doesn't know how to get it all together.

Such women should welcome the solution provided by the old A no-nonsense approach on how to deal with life's most difficult and most rewarding arrangement. Ann Landers' booklet, "Marriage What to Expect," will prepare you for better or for worse. Send your request to Ann Landers, P.O. Box 11995, Chicago, Illinois 60611, enclosing 50 cents in coin and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope. Printed Patterns Make It Easy Senior Citizens ANN LANDERS moved on.

But, Ann I have never been so embarrassed in life. On the way home I told him behaved like a pig and no wonder we weren't invited out much. He said I had no sense of humor and that's why we Inad so few invitations. Cass CASSOPOLIS Cass County Council on Aging office will be closed Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4, for tlie holiday. Council on Aging activities for July include: Wednesday, July Blood piressure screening clinic, 10 a.m.

to noon, Edwardsburg Unitd Methodist Church; Golden Age Club, noon, United Methodist Church. Thursday, July Health screening clinic, Penn. Township Hall, appointments necessary; transportation to Borrien Springs, 9 a.m.; transportation to South Bend, noon. Friday, July 7 AARP Chapter 673, Hudson HEALTH Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.

Ml DEAR DR. LAMB I had a heart attack a year and a half ago anaine aociur saiu didn't need any surgery but I have weight problems and lung congestion. I weigh 186 pounds and am 66 years old. I don't smoke or drink. I take Slow Lasix and Lanoxin.

Will I ever be able to recover completely? How come my heart controls the fluids coming out of my body? My ankles swell up and I get short of breath also. DEAR READER Often the weight gain a person has with heart failure is associated with the accumulation of fluid. And it does accumulate in the ankles and can accumulate in the abdomen, or it can accumulate in the lungs and chest cavity. The mechanism of fluid retention and swelling is rela Astro-Graph Fashion Favorite Start now knit this beautiful long easy jacket! Make this straight-sleeve jacket all in one piece from the neck down including sleeves! Note lacy yoke and bands down front. Use synthetic worsted.

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Memorial Building, Mar-cellus. Monday, July II Transportation to Dowagiac, noon. Wednesday, July 12 Insurance clinic, St. Anne's Catholic Church, Cassopolis, appointments. necessary; blood pressure screening clinic, 10 a.m.

to noon, Sister Lakes Lions Club; transporta to Kalamazoo, noon; transportation to Elkhart, 9 a.m. July 14 Transportation to. South Bend, 11 a.m.; transportation to Niles, 9 a.m.; AARP Chapter 652, 1:30 p.m., St. Anne's Catholic Church, Cassopolis; AARP Chapter 740, noon, Lions Community Center, Sister Lakes. Osol share equally in the returs from your collective efforts today they're apt to put some roadblocks in your path.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Just because you got up on the wrong side of the bed today doesn't mean you have to be cranky all day. Think about having fun and you'll have it. AQUARIUS (Jan.

20-Feb. IS) Take it in good stride if your mate is a little hard to please today and she'll soon come around. You'll only make matters worse if you're tactless. PISCES (Feb. 2-March 20) Unless you get those difficult tasks out of the way early today they could monopolize your entire day.

Spend the morning doing, instead of procrastinating. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Pleasurable pursuits that are expensive will be the least amount of fun today. An old-fashioned family get-together could be a ball, however. TAURUS (April 2-May 20) Early in the day you may not be as tolerant as you should be of others who disrupt your routine. Once you loosen up you'll discover their ideas aren't so bad after all.

GEMINI (May 21-June 28) Leaving control of matters pertinent to your interests in the hands of others today could produce undesirable results. You run the show.) Saturday, July IS AARP Chapter 444, 1:30 p.m., Chestr nut Towers, Dowagiac. Monday, July 17 Transportation to Niles, 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, July 18 Transportation to South Bend, 9:45 a.m.; transportation to South Bend. 12:45 p.m.; AARP Chapter 444, noon, Chestnut Towers, Dowagiac.

Wednesday. JaJv 1J Legal aid for senior citizens. 1:30 p.m.. Council on Aging office, appointments Thursday, July 24 Health screening clinic, appointments necessary; blood pressure scree nig clinic, 11 a.m. to noon, Howard Township Community Hall; transpora-tion to Mishawaka, 9 a.m.

Friday, July 21 AARP Chapter 673, 11:30 a.m., Hudson Memorial Building, Mar-cellus. Thursday, July 27 Transportation to South Bend, 9 a.m.; health screening clinic, Edwardsburg, appointments necessary. Friday, July 28 Blood pressure screening clinic, 10 a.m. to noon, St. Anne's Catholic Church, Cassopolis; AARP Chapter 652, noon, St.

Anne's Catholic Church. Hot lunches for senior citizens are served at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday at the American Legion Post, Dowagiac, and Vandalia Village Hall. Ball Game Trip COLO MA Reservations are due Friday, July 7, for a scheduled bus trip to the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants baseball game at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Tuesday, July 18. Cost of the trip, sponsored by North Berrien Senior Center, Coloma, is 11 and includes round trip bus ride and a grandstand ticket for the ball game.

The bus will leave the Senior Center at 11 a.m. The $11 cost should be paid at the center office by July 7, according to Marie Hull, center director. According to Mrs. Hull, several openings are still available. BRIDGE information -about swellings can send 50 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for this issue to in care of this newspaper, P.O..

Box 326, San Antonio, TX .78292. When the fluid accumulation is due to heart failure the best approach is to try to correct the heart condition if at all possible. That's also why you are getting Lanoxin, which is a digitalis preparation to strengthen the contractions of the heart muscle. It's difficult to say what you can expect from your future condition but whatever you can do to help gradually reduce your weight will probably help you. That means limiting your total calorie intake and limiting particularly your fat and cholesterol intake.

I suspect your doctors have already asked you to limit foods that contain sodium salt. Anybody taking diuretics or water medications such as Lasix often needs to replace potassium. That's why you're getting Slow K. To give you more information on the importance of the balance between sodium and potassium I am also sending you The Health Letter number 10-12, Salt: Your Vital Sodium and Potassium Balance. DEAR DR.

LAMB Is non-fat dry milk powder really non-fat and is the cholesterol removed with the fat in skimming? DEAR READER Yes, non-fat dry milk powder is non-fat and it contains very little cholesterol. It is an excellent substance to use in cooking as you can make milk gravies, puddings and use it in baking products and be using a milk product that is non-fat and very low in cholesterol. Not only that, you can increase the amount of non-fat dry milk powder called for in the recipe and enrich the amount of protein and calcium in any foods that you prepare with it. Sunday Meeting For Men's Club KEEI.FR Men's Club will meet Sunday, July 2, at the United Methodist Church. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m.

and a business meeting will follow. tively complex, but when a person has heart failure he tends to retain salt in That's why you are taking Lasix to help to eliminate the excess sodium With salt an excess amount of water is retained, which increases the amount of water in the circulatory system. This causes water to literally leak out of the circulation into the tissue spaces. To explain this in somewhat more detail, I am sending you The Health Letter number 11-6, Swelling: Causes and Managements. This issue will also give you information on the type of swelling that occurs with injuries and sprains and how they should be treated, as well as the basic concepts of how fluid accumulates in the body.

Other readers who are interested in and Alan Sontag diamond lead away from my king would be right up to declarer's ace. How about a club lead? It wouldn't hurt at all if my partner held the king. It also wouldn't matter if he held neither king nor the queen, but if he held the queen, my dlub lead Wwould cause his queen to be wasted on dummy's nine. "Then I saw a way out of my troubles. I led my eight of trumps.

Declarer played dummy's queen. Poor old played low. He held only low cards, but South thought he had located the king. He led the seven and finessed. I cashed my king and could now afford a spade lead.

I was out of the end play and South was out of all chance to make his game. A Vermont reader has asked several questions about preemptive bids. We feel that the only way to answer them is by full articles and we'll discuss preemptives next week. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I (For a copy of JACOBY MODERN, send $1 to: "Win at Bridge," care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y.

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July 1, 1978 This may be a year when more opportunities than you think you can handle will be dumped in your lap. Isolate those that are interesting to you. Concentrate exclusively on them. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Avoid pals today who always, expect you to pay their share of the tab. Instead, spend your time with friends equally as generous as yourself.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Disappointments are possible today if you're overly insistent that others adhere to your wishes. Let the majority rule and everyone will have fun. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) A problem may arise today that can't be handled in one fell swoop. Chip away at it and you'll soon cut it down to size. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Your goals today could go by the boards if you fail to keep your priorities in order.

Put business before pleasure. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Poor communications could lead to you and your mate pulling in two different directions today. Keep each other apprised of your purposes.

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