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SPOTLIGHT ANN LANDERS 2-8, Lubbock, T.xa, Wednesday, Sept. 1 5, 1 976 Maturity Aids Gleason Marriage By REBECCA MOREHOUSE NEW YORK (WNS) Love deferred, how sweet it is, to Jackie and Marilyn Gleason. "We're very happy, we've got maturity going for us instead of against us." said Marilyn. "People change, grow up and develop, and we've done that." was in 1950, or thereabouts, that they met and fell in love. Not until Dec.

16, 1975. were they married; he for the third time, she for the second. Marilyn Taylor Norwich Gleason is a woman well worth waiting for. She has a shiny aura, an attractive face and figure, was a dancer. I talked to her and then to Jackie.

"Jackie was married and couldn't get a divorce when we met, and I didn't want She role of the other woman," she said. "I got married in 1962 and there was no contact with Jackie; although I was conscious of him because of my sister, June Taylor, worked with him. "As far as I was concerned, it was over. I was very happily married and living in Chicago. Then my husband died in 1973 and I moved with my son Craig to Hallan- (iale, where June was living.

Craig is 13 now." Jackie married Genevieve Halford in I93G. After many years of separation both are Catholics they divorced in 1970. In that same year, he married Beverly McKittrick; they divorced on Nov. 6, 1974. "After I'd been in Florida about a year, Jackie called and said, 'Watch the papers tomorrow, I'm filing for He invited me to dinner.

I went to his home and he had arranged a party with a lot of people we'd both known years ago. "After he got the divorce, he called me from the courthouse and said. 'A single man is on his way to see Because of legal hang-ups. it was a year before we could marry. But after all those years, what's one more? "Jackie's easy to live with but he's not your average 9 to 5 man.

If you've got grc.it talent, you're an unusual person." Enter the great one, glistening like a fresh-scrubbed baby, impeccably tailored, an uncut emerald on his left pinky and gold cufflinks. Suddenly, he is wanted again in films, plays a Southern sheriff in "Smokey and the Bandit," with Burl Reynolds, stars in "Windfall," with Terence Hill. "This marriage had better work out, I can't wait another 25 years." HAPPILY MARRlED-After knowing each other for 25 years, Jackie Gleason and Marilyn Taylor Horwich Gleason were married less than a year ago and now boast of a happy marriage. Gleason is playing in films again but says he will do no more plays, and the couple plan to continue living at their present home in Florida. Hints from Heloise Dear Friends: What is good for you, you know you should do and only takes five or ten minutes a day? Really doesn't have to be all that difficult, but you never do it? Exercise.

That villain! You aren't going to get a lecture just a little shove. Because of my recent broken leg I wasn't able to exercise for about four months. I wasn't able to walk on both legs for two months. Amazing how those few pounds and all those inches just creep up, or should I say. pile up? I came to the realization that my exercise class twice a week and the little yoga I did really counted.

We all know the horrible disgust of trying to put on those nice slacks that you wanted to wear and suddenly they are too tight in the waist or hips. Ah, I rationalized that a few pounds aren't that bad. Funny, or unf-jnny how those few pounds mount to a few more and before you know it it's seven or 10. Three weeks ago all you had to lose was 10. Now it's 15 and the number is growing.

There is really no time like now to stop the bad new habits and get back into your old routine. I have gotten back into the habit of doing about five or 10 minutes of exercise in the morning before my shower. Just do it, don't think about it. I put on some perky music or watch the morning news. Believe me, I am not Mr.

Athletic just a lot of "these" and a lot of "those." Dont' start with something you won't continue. Do five or three, whatever you will "do." Then increase by one, when you can. A friend, who is coach, laughs at me because I told him I try to do 20 sit-ups before going to bed. He says that only 20 doesn't do any good. Well, I figure it's better than nothing at all.

Right? I don't have the problem of anyone watching rne. I can do what I want when I want. A friend of mine solved the problem of her kids making fun of her by fining her isometric exercises in the bathroom just before taking her shower. Fooled them. I know we try to save steps and energy, hut if you are always watching your weight like I am, I have found that instead of sitting to talk on the phone, I stand and do leg lifts.

Stretch and stoop when you can and walk a few extra steps. I know this doesn't apply to everyone but to those of you that want to try, start now. Even if it is only three sit-ups and four jumping jacks. Don't tax yourself. Just do what you can.

A little helps more than nothing. Heloise II P.S. Habits are usually thought of as only bad ones. Make this a good habit. Instead of sitting to watch your "soap," stand and do a few exercises.

Dear Heloise: When reading a magazine and find that you are unable to complete the reading of the article, write the number of the page on the corner of the magazine cover. This will make it easier to find that particular article you were reading. There are times when a woman will be reading an article at the beauty parlor or doctor's office and will find she is unable to finish. By writing the name of the magazine and page number on a tablet she carries with her, she will be able to locate the article the next time she goes to the beauty parlor or place where she began the article. Gloria Constantinitis IF you have a hint or a problem write to Heloise in care of The Avalanche-Journal, P.O.

Box 491, Lubbock, 79408. Because of the tremendous volume of mail, Heloise is unable to answer individual letters. She will, however, answer your questions in her column whenever possible. Copyright, by King Flalur.j Syndiott Dear Ann Landers: For several years I postponed a hysterectomy (which I needed badly) hoping the "problem" would disappear. When the situation became critical my doctor insisted I have it done.

I looked forward to a better sex life with my husband after the surgery but it hasn't worked out that way. Last night, after another failure, my husband tried again to analyze liis inability to perform. I reassured him of my love and said, "It doesn't matter." Then I asked if perhaps he felt that my surgery had made me less of a woman. He replied, "I hope that isn't the problem." Needless to say, I was crushed. One thing is certain, there's no way I can put back the missing organs.

Can you advise me on how to think about this shattering put-down? My husband has asked me not to mention my hysterectomy to him again. I'm afraid he thinks of me as An Empty Shell Dear Friend: A woman doesn't need a uterus or ovaries to have a completely satisfactory sex life. From the sound of your letter I suspect you've verbalized your fears repeatedly and transferred your apprehension and anxieties to your husband. Take his advice and stop talking about your' operation. Take my advice and have a long talk with your gynecologist.

You need some reassurance and emotional support and he is the one who can and should provide it. Dear Ann Landers: Will you please repeat that great column you wrote a long time ago about "A It's time again. Some of my salespeople are beginning to get short-tempered and rude. Business is falling off. Thanks so much.

Red Ink In Toledo Dear Red: Here it is. With pleasure. Perhaps you ought to have it blown up and framed and hung where your salespeople can see it every day. A customer is the most important person in any business. A customer is not dependent on us.

We are dependent on him. A customer is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. A customer does us a favor when he comes in. We aren't doing him a favor by waiting on him.

A customer is part of our business not an outsider. A customer is not just money in the cash register. He is a human being with feelings, like our own. A customer is a person who comes to us with his needs and his wants. It is our job to fill them.

A customer deserves the most courteous attention we can give him. He is the life-blood of this and every business. He pays your salary. Without him we would have to close our doors. Don't ever forget it.

Dear Ann Landers: Is it true that men often marry women who possess the same qualities that their mothers have? I've heard it said and find it hard to believe. My son's fiancee is as different from me as night is from day. When I asked him if he realized it he said, "Why, of course." Will you check with the experts and enlighten me, please? Any similarity is Purely Coincidental Dear Coincidental: The experts say that men often marry women who are ei- 1876 Cookbook Gives Recipes Not Used Today SLOW SERVICE PALM A DE MAJORCA, Spain (WNS) Juanita Miro, 65, maintains slow service at her cafe in order to teach tense tourists ihe "relax Espanol." Says the Senora, "We are proud that it takes us seven minutes to serve instant coffee and sometimes 15 minutes to prepare three-minute boiled eggs. Relaxation is Rood for the health and the spirit." Hy JEANNE LESEM LIPI Family Editor The pood old days of cooking definitely did not cover 1876. Not if one judges from The National Cooker)' Book compiled for the Women's Centennial Committees of the International Exhibition in Philadelphia a century ago.

Recipes from an Oneida Indian squaw include baked bear's meat that called for reserving excess grease to sell to traders for hair oil. Directions for cooking mud turtle begin: "Put the turtles alive in boiling water A copy of the now-rare cookbook is in a recently opened exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. that re-creates the Philadelphia fair. Only in part did the 300-page cookbook reflect the ethnic diversity of the 36 states of the period. The compilers included Dutch and German sauerkraut and cole slaw, French brioche, mayonnaise and omelets, African gumbo and okra, and even Italian spaghetti, but omitted recipes of Chinese, Irish.

Mexican and Scandinavian heritage, although immigrants of all four nationalities had already settled in Ihe United Not all the recipes are as unappetizing as b.ikerl bear and mud turtle. Mississippi crab soup sounds prolty pood, although it contains only six rrabs in a strained broth made with beef or fowl, vegetables and a little spice. Baked pork and beans are made almost the same way today as they were a century ago, but with one major exception: the centennial book called for cooking the beans all day in a iron pot or earthen crock covered with a homemade lid of flour and water dough. "Earthenware crocks are to be had in New England, diminishing in size at the top, made expressly for this purpose," the book advised. It's been said that you need to know how to cook to use most modern cookbooks.

That was even truer a century apo, hut women had one advantage we lack today. No girl's education was considered complete in those days without knowledge of Even a homemaker who could afford a cook had to know how to supervise the kitchen staff. For that reason, most recipes gave sketchy directions, if at all. Ingredients were listed helter-skelter, rarely in order of use, and even measurements were often left to the discretion or guesswork of the cook, as in Madison apple pie, for example. It called for rich puff paste filled with apples, topped with more crust and baked without sugar or any thickening.

That came later. Cream and sugar, flavored with rose, cinnamon or allspice were to be poured in at serving time. A neat trick, for the cook first had to re- Funeral Parties Still Preferred ROCHDALE. England (WNS) Ada Walker, 82, and her three best girl friends celebrated their own funeral par- tics here with a banquet that also included "a round of whiskies, a bottle of gin and some sherries, too." "The money came from the two pennies a week that these mill girls paid to the funeral fund of our textile workers union," explained Albert Hilton, union president. "Now we've closed the funeral fund and started retirement grants instead." Mary Blair, 76, Beattie Hunter, 72, and Jane Fenton, 70, seconded Ada Walker's motion to have funeral parties on the spot "because you still can't take the money with you when you go, you know." move the upper crust from the hot pie.

ndd the foregoing ingredients, and res- lore the crust, unbroken, before sending the dish to the table. What cooks in 1876 lacked in ingredients, they made up for with fanciful names. Cinderella puffs were sponge- light cupcakes. Rhode Island slump was spicy, molasses-flavored apple pie and a Kansas poor man's pudding in grasshopper times was old-fashioned rice pudding, skimpily sweetened with only half a cup of sugar for two quarts of milk and a cupful of uncooked rice. As a souvenir of the current exhibit, which is scheduled to run for two years, the Smithsonian is selling a booklet with recipes excerpted from the original.

It is available at the institution's bookshop and by mail from Legado Press. 75-A N.W., Washington, D.C. 20024 for $2 postpaid. Don't drown potatoes in water when you are boiling them. You can use only a couple of cups of water for four medium- size spuds.

ther very much like their mothers or extremely unlike them, depending on how they feel about Mom. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of The Avalanche-Journal, P.O. Box 491, Lubbock, 79408, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Music Club Honors Day A country breakfast and federation day program will be sponsored by the Lubbock Music Club Friday in the First Christian Church, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Speaker for the event will be Mrs. E.D. Barnes, president of the second district of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. The musical program will include a gospel medley for organ and piano and a selection by a vocal trio. HomecomingSet By Crosbyton "Those Were the Days" has been selected for Crosbyton High School's homecoming celebration Friday and Saturday for all who have attended the school or have been employed by the school.

A 3 p.m. pep rally in the gymnasium will kick off the events Friday, followed by a reception and registration sponsored by the student council. Beginning at 5 p.m., the junior class will sponsor a chili supper prior to the Crosbyton-Motley County football game. An after-game social for alumni will be in Pioneer Memorial Building. Saturday's activities include registration in Pioneer Memorial Building at 7 p.m.

and a banquet in the same building at 8 p.m. The banquet will honor former Crosbyton High School principal and teacher Wayne Hill, who presently is employed by Hale Center Schools. Child care will be provided for $3 per child by the home economics cooperative education class for those attending the banquet who make arrangements prior to that evening. Telephone numbers to call are 675-2289 and 675-2201. Times and places for individual class anniversary celebrations will be posted in the hall of the high school.

ON THE GO-f his sportsjacket with peax lapels and deep roomy patch pockets also has side vents for easy mobility especially for the man who is always moving. It is made of raised woven wool in a style patterned after the English hacking jacket. Around The Mr. and Mrs. Edward R.

Smith have returned to their home in Lubbock following a wedding trip to northern New Mexico. Mrs. Smith was the former Mrs. Virginia E. Lorenzen.

Mr. Smith was formerly from Dalhart. Members of the South Plains Dental Auxiliary will be hostesses for a wiener roast at 7 p.m. Friday at the home of Dr. and Mrs.

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