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Lifestyles The Paris News, Monday, Dec. 17, 1990 Page 3A No happy ending for accused in children's stories of abuse DEAR ABBY: Some ago, published a letter from Please" regarding her 'child's experience with child molestation. She said she hadtaughther Jigsaw history no puzzle By The Associated Press NEW YORK The jigsaw puzzle has come a long way since invention over two centuries ago by a London mapmaker. These first puzzles, called dissected maps, were designed to help children learn geography. Current puzzles offer almost unlimited choice for "kids" from 2 to 102, but this was not always the case, according to researchers at Random House which makes still popular puzzles today for children and adults.

In the 1760s, printer John Spilsbury produced map puzzles with large pieces that slid together instead of interlocking like modern jigsaws. They were priced at $5, so only the wealthy could afford puzzzles until the 19th century when technological advances brought them within the reach of the middle classes. Then, the range of titles broadened to include topics such as "Chronological Tables of English History for the Instruction of Youth" and "Lessons for Young and Old on Industry, Temperance and Frugality." Puzzles reached America at the time of the Revolutionary War. However, they did not truly come into their own until the Great Depression of this century.jWhen millions of Americans searched for inexpensive entertainment. Puzzles today feature a wealth of themes, shapes, sizes and subjects, all reproduced with brilliant graphics on precision-cut pieces.

Children's puzzles may depict favorite characters from books and movies, and can be printed on extra-large pieces designed especially for young children's hands. Although today's jigsaw puzzles are more sophisticated than the earlier creations, they continue to boe excellent teaching tools, experts say. daughter about her private parts at age 4, and "within five months she was molested." That letter was not the first you have published on the "horror stories" of child molestation. I have been waiting for some letter giving balance to the near hysteria thatis gripping our society on the subj ect. As a lawyer who has handled many cases involving children who were said to have been sexually abused, may I share the following observations: Shop The Paris News Classifieds 785-5538 CHIMNEYSWEEP Charley Keys Since 1978 785-6549 1-214-785-0393 24 Hours A Pay Happy 1st Birthday Colton Grae Reavis Parents: Johnny Beverly Grandparents: Joe David Connie Brazeal Linda Butch Reavis Great Grandmother: Louise Brazeal HELP I HOTLINE I 1-214-785-0393 Meeting Memos Maxey club The Maxey Extension Homemakers Club held its December meeting at the community center.

Fourteen members attended. Following a short business meeting and game time, a Christmas party was held. Gifts were -exchanged and names for secret pals for next year were drawn. Alpha Delta i Alpha Delta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma met Dec. 11 in the home of Rhea Brown for its December meeting.

Hostesses were. Mrs. Brown, Glooria Cox and Iva Lee Kennemer. After a dinner served to 28 members, Lucile Bledsoe of Cooper told a Christmas storey. Members closed the meeting with Christmas carols.

Bridge Brunch The Ladies Bridge Brunch held its December Wednesday at Paris Golf and Country Club. Betty House and Elizabeth Thompson were hostesses. were decorated with three large' silver candles flanked by five-branched silver candelabras. Winning the table prizes were Helen ass an and Mable Claire Reeves. The traveling slam prize was won by Ruth Hagood and Ann Black, Essie Nash and Margaret Ring, Elizabeth Thompson and Essie Nash and Mary Marshall and Helen Stringfellow.

A Christmas arrangement, provided by Perry and Joe Thurman, was won by Martha Castlebury with the lucky tal- ley number. Winning in bridge were Charlotte Stephens, Essie Naesh, Helen Stringfellow, Maudie McKee and Victorene Young. Attending were Ann Black, Marie Billingslea, Sibyl Biggers, Helen Bassano, Martha Casltebury, Betty Dixon, Beryl Fagg, Betty Frank, Louise Hagood, Helen Joyce, Ruth Hagood, Elizabeth King, Margaret King, Norma McLaughlin, Edith Meyer, Dorothy McClure, Mary Marshall, Lorene Morgan, Rebel Neves, Liz Norman, Todd Noel, Janie Stewart, Elizabeth Thompson, Perry Thurmon, Wanda 'Rhodes, Mable Claire Reeves and Gail Whitaker. The bridge brunch will meet the third Wednesday in January with Victorene Young, Betty Dickson and Nelwyn Stallings as hostesses. 1 WEEK ONLY FINAL LIQUIDATION Dec.

17-22 all book store merchandise all collectible merchandise FAMILY BOOKS GIFTS Downtown Paris PARIS IRON and METAL CO RECYCLING CENTER Aluminum, Brass, Cans, Radiators, More! -AIL'TYPES-'OF NEW STEEL IN STOCK- OPEN 8am-5pm 701 W. Center 214-784-4090 i Children do lie. They don't call it lying they, call it "making up stories." And with encouragement from a parent and "professionals," these children will eventually believe their own stories. On the basis of an accusation alone, the accused parent may be denied access to his child for months or even years. For years children have been sexually abused by neighbors, baby sitters, trusted friends and relatives.

Teaching them to scream, kick, hit and run will not protect them. The best protection is to watch your children closely and keep the lines of communication open. I was in court recently on a child molestation case. The judge stated that more than 80 percent of such cases that had come before him had been frivolous the accusation has been made for the purpose of gaining an advantage in other actions. I have every reason to believe that what the judge said was true.

One prospective divorce client said to me, "My husband is a sexual deviate a pervert and I want you to see to it that he has no unsupervised contact with our children!" When I pressed her for an example of her husband's perverted sexual behavior, she replied, "he hides Playboy magazines in his underwear drawer." A WOMAN LAWYER FROM MISSOURI DEAR LAWYER: Thank you for an excellent letter to illus- trate the other side of the story. DEAR ABBY: I am writing this letter on behalf of my father who died last week of lung cancer. He was very smart about so many things, but he wasn't smart enough to quit smoking before it killed him. I want you to know that my father loved you and your column for as long as you've been writing it. I used to tell him that I always read Dear Abby last because I wanted to save the best for the last, then he'd say, "I can't wait that long.

I read her first." My father loved The Houston Post and he taught his children to love it, too. Anyway, Abby, I just want you to know that you brought a lot of joy into the life of a wonderful man whose name was Charles Elton. We buried him with his beloved newspaper and your section being on top. He would have wanted it that way. With ERICA ELTON NEHLS, TEXAS DEAR ERICA: My heartfelt condolences to you and your family on the loss of a loving father.

Thank you for giving me permission (on the telephone) to publish your name. You said you "knew" your father would have loved seeing your letter in The Houston Post. Who knows? Perhaps he can. RSVP has successful event 1 McDowell The Retired Senior Volunteer Program had a successful annual recognition event recently. Nearly 200 people enjoyed a lunch, 1 -fellow- Sliip 1 fun an'S' the presentation of awards to outstanding senior citizens.

Again I congratulate the Outstanding Senior Citizen of Red River County, Artema Whitsell. These awards are sponsored by RSVP along with NCNB Texas and J.P. Harvey Motors, respectively. The RSVP Volunteer of the Year is Bill Arnold. Also nominated for this honor were Mary Jackson, Alvis and Thelia Jones, Joe Julian, Ray Kennemer, Ocie Makley and Tom Seay.

We are so proud of each one of these vital, contributing older Americans in our communities. Our thanks to the Salvation Army for a lovely luncheon last week. The luncheon was given to honor the volunteers who dressed teddy bears for the Army's Christmas store. The bears were displayed during the luncheon and were just delightful. Many children will receive joy from these special gifts on Christmas morning.

Joining the group of retired volunteers in dressing the bears this year were some special friends, of mine.at.Paris Title and th.e.iaw.of' fices of. Clifford, and McDowell. Thanks to each one who gave of your time and talents to make this unique project possible. People interested in 55 Alive Defensive Driving to be offered Jan. 17 and 18 should contact Joe Crigler, 784-8391, or Frank Sherman, 784-3966 for registration information.

The RSVP office will reopen after the Christmas holiday on January 2, 1991. Faye and I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our volunteers for the wonderful year of service. We wish you all a joyous holiday season and a healthy, happy new year. Thanks to each of you, RSVP is shining in the '90's! Classy reproductions By The Associated Press John Rosselli can sell you a fine antique and make you a new one to match it, which is what makes him sought-after by New York's top decorators. Rosselli's two New York showrooms are crammed with antiques, according to an article in the current issue of House but they account for only a third of his business.

The reproductions are the major draw, crafted under Rosselli's direction: hand-painted metal sconces that look scorched by the candlelight of a thousand nights, painted screens that seem to have faded from a century of sunshine, tables with marbelized tops that could have come from the brush of an 18th-century artist. What would be unduly expensive, Roaselli makes attainable. "John has one of the last ateliers making things in the 18th-century manner," said Antony Childs, a "Washington designer. "John creates objects that look like antiques. And.ofcoursejhecan do it in any color.

If I have one old sconce and I need a pair, or one antique chair and I need three more, John always manages to get it made." "I come from a long line of pack rats," Rosselli said. "Nothing in my family was ever thrown out. My father had this huge old barn where he kept everything." The barn was on the Rosselli family farm in northern New Jersey; a converted chicken house on the farm is now Rosselli's rustic, antiques-filled weekend retreat. A lifetime of handling old ob- jects, fingering their surfaces and absorbing the minute details of decoration and paint technique has given Rosselli a deep feeling for the nature of the decorative arts of the past. The 18th and 19th centuries are alive for him, not just as book knowledge but as material knowledge from the things he sees and touches daily.

Using what he calls his "reference pieces" to trigger his imagination, Rosselli reaches into his creative wellspring to invent new designs with an antique look. Sometimes he will reproduce a prototype exactly; more often he uses it to spark an original design. A salvaged piece of ancient wallpaper might become a painted border on a mirror; an antique papier-mache 'tray could inspire the motif'for a tea table. inspiration can come from a piece of fabric, a picture in a magazine or an art book," Rosselli said. "Ill buy something for the color." Ideas come from everywhere.

A room with Zuber wallpaper set him to painting scenic screens that resemble ancient murals, right down to their trompe Toeil water stains. After seeing a show of English Regency penwork furniture Rcjs- selli could hardly wait to get back to the studio to do his own convincing rendition in paint. Rosselli uses paint to create any finish imaginable. A chair upholstered in what looks like a priceless 17th century tapestry is actually covered in painted canvas. A gliola table top or the marquetry on a box all paint.

Remembering Ed Reed Dorothy Viaughan Some of laughter went out of the world ori Oct. 7, 1 99 0 That's the day E'd Reed died. Ed was a cartoonist and for 50 years drew daily cartoons with a caption for 400 newspapers throughout the United States and the world that brought chuckles to millions of people. Longtime Parisians will remember Ed as a Paris boy who drew caricatures of his teachers at Paris High School. By his senior year, he had acquired enough talent to be art editor of the 1925 PHS Owl which he said were the first reproductions of his drawings.

Since he never wanted to be anthi ng but a cartoonist, he went to the Academy of Fie Arts in Chicago after high school, later, working for seven years at a Dallas advertising agency. His first cartoons, called Ed(reed)itorials, ran in the Dallas Journal where he served as staff artist for two years. Ed hit the big time in 1934 when the Eegister-Tribune Syndicate of Dea Moines, Iowa, syndicated his cartoons and renamed them Off the Record. Some of his early Off the Record- cartoons were drawn at The Paris News when Publisher A.G. (Pat) Mayse gave him a desk and a pencil near the editorial department.

As his cartoons became more and more popular, Ed traveled extensively, visiting papers which carried his work. He lived in Rome and traveled the world before settling in London, England, in 1958. In 1960, he bought a 400-year-old home, Haiwstead House, in the village 'Broadwify' (England's 1 "equivalent of Greenwich Village) which had belonged to a Scottish noblewoman, an aunt of the present Queen Mother of England. It was here that Ed spent his last days, continuing to draw cartoons in his home studio until he retired in the. mid 1980s.

Although he didn't get to Paris much in his later years, Ed never forgot his roots. When his cartoons called for the name of a doctor or school teacher, Ed used the names of Paris people and it became sort of a private joke between Ed and Parisians that the rest of the world didn't know. When the cartoons called for the name of a town Ed always used Paris, Texas, so he was what you mightcall a goodwill ambassador for Paris. He also never forgot the influence of his grandmother, Claude Record Reed, who took him to Central Presbyterian Church here for upon his death it was requested that memorials be made to that church. Ed's cartoons were strictly for fun and the job of producing a daily gag and a drawing to illustrate it makes writing a weekly column seem easy.

He had to have a tremendous sense of humor and it was saiiof him that he would do anything for a gag. He once stayed in a hospital to concentrate on situations arising in the maternity ward. From this study of newborn infants arose his popular babies, "The Three Bares." Readers participated in a national contest to name the children who became known as Bib, Ann, and Tucker. Those who remember Ed might be interested to know that his wife, the former Mary Ann Cullum of Dallas, outlived him only 10 days. She died Oct.

17. The old file photo we have of Ed showed him to be a handsome man in 1945 and the biographical form he filled out about the same time shows a cartoon drawing of himself in a steam bath denoting his-mem- bershipin the New York'Athle- tic Club. I didn't know Ed personally, but I wish I had. I think we could have had lots of fun talking to each other. Computer gives dental advice COPENHAGEN, Denmark almostbewildering array of dental and oral care products are being simplified in Denmark through interactive, computerized "dental advisors," according to a recent retailing report.

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