The Herald Statesman from Yonkers, New York • 6

r-r'i 7' Jf A-0nllC8 rbin Liih Zanders .1.1 XV Listing's JHE HERD STATESMAN, YONKERS, N.YW SATURDAY, JULY I W77 5-' jjj: Dear Ann Landers: So much bring said and written incse davv about how tn save energy. It's important to re. mind people, as your own Sen. Charles Percy nf Illinois ha said se often, that the best source of 'fflergyto conservation in'iHther-iirdwit1- save what we have by making small use less. Recently on TV I saw someone from Washing--.

ion offering suggestions on'how to save.t'm'rgy. She "Roll up nespaprrs ver)- tight make logs out of them, and burn in the firvplau'." My husband is a pediatridan and I witrk with him -Iffm days a wivk. (I'm an R.N.) I kmm nf limy cases of lead-pHistHiing in rhildren hit nulted from dtiihg exactly that. The pmbiem: Stime of the newspapers bad color sections. The feud in the paint poisowd the fumes and madt1 these children wry ill.

1 So pieaA'; Ann. tell your reader SOT to make "logs" out nf newspapers, that bavr color ads ur pictures. Thank iu; Un ()ur Ljllle Ones. I appreciate your writing. Van may have ByTERRIHALLN i New York City may be the "Big honkers may be the "Little' Apple." but Mount Vernon -schools are the "Bright Applet-ami soonrverj-bodyT7 will know it.

stickers have been proclaiming this idea Tor several months how. UJwtJhe slogan will soon, be Mme little Urn wa ny appearing on shirts, aa well. Carole Fair" of Eastches-ter and Sheri Hefler of Yon- kers. two elementary school teachers at Mount "Vernon's Grimes Creative Education Center, came hp with the T-shirt IdeaT- The two women are liquid embroidery and in addition to JhHl regular classroom du Dear Ann: My. wife as born in Eunipe.

She came here with her folks la years ago and speaks perfect English. Her mother and father are nice people, but I have never Telt comfortable in their home. They rattle oil and on in their native tongue and I can't -understand one-word they say? Also. IheyTcad foreign newspapers and slill keep a kit of old country customs which are strange to me. We've been nrarried eight years and I dread going to my- kmm- they -aren't-talking about me.

but I fwl left out: Should 1 -be forced to go where I don't understand what is being said and am ill at ease? Stranger In The Family. Dear Straager: If after eight years you can't understand one word. aren't trying very hard. Ask yoar wire to leach yon a few sentences. Start with, "Ham are yon?" Surprise the in-laws by asiag a few phrases such as.

"I mderstaad.N HHow true." etc. Even if yoa say it poorly they wHI be deHghtH and you'll he amch more eomfartahkf in their amonco. Staff ptato bv Htort OmiKcS Teacher Sheri Heflfr, lejl, and Carttle Fa(r nerimd mm. right admire 'bright aciram-" piuhmentn of Jackie Rabideau, 12, and Kerin Huntley, 12 ties (Ms. Fair teaches second grade; Ms.

Hefler teaches fifth and sixth they teach three "special classes in liquid embroidery on Friday mornings. Ms. Fair had been using the liquid embroidery paint to create designs on sheets, pillowcases, T-shirts and almost everything else for approximately six jjwjprtMs. Hefler hogked "on theTibb6y. approxF" matdy six months ago.

Since then, enthusi-. asm has "reached their Grimes' students. Out of that enthusiam. the "Bright Apple" T-shirts were born. "One of the T-shirts we had originally made was an apple." Ms.

Hefler said, "and since the Mount Ver non school system's emblem is a bright apple, we came, up with the idea of making a T-shirt with the Mount Vernon bumper-sticker slogan." showed their design to Dr. William Prattella. 'Mount Vernon's superintendent of schools." he was enthused immedi: two young ladies are very deserving of clal commendation," Dr, Prattella said. "They're two terrific, people very The school board contracted -with the Velv-r Sheen Co. to mass produce the T-shirtsand seven' of.

the 12 Mount Vernon elementary pens is that the T-shirts grt worn and torn and eventually fall apart, but the designs are still there." "So you have a pile of very -fancy rags," Ms. Hefler added. But their customers and students don't seem to mind. There was such a great demand for the liquid embroidery "special interest" classes, with youngsters, asking to borrow the materials overnight and during holidays and homeroom, that more classes glass All the gifts I gel these days are basically frog anything." ON THE OTHER hand. Ms.

Fair said she has more than "250 elephant things'" including jewelry, sheets, miniatures, ceramics, needlepoint, antiques, wicker, ivory, elephant hand-pup-pels. African prints and glasses. "My have Brought them back from all' over the world'" she said. "Every- one has a story-." She's afraid she'll soon have to find else 1 to collect, however. ''There's a thing about elephants that they're supposed to be facing the door for.

good luck." she said, "but it's a little difficult to have 250 elephants all facing the door. It's also supposed be good luck. if their trunks face up and bad luck iT their trunks face down." Right now; Hcfler's two-bedroom apartment-has one bedroom "com-. will probably be added next year. But as lor Mv Hefler and Ms.

Fair, who have brought the liquid embroidery T-shirt fever lo Mount Vernon, it's just something they like lo do. "We're going to do as long as we enjoy IC'-Ms. Fair said, "And when it stops being fun, that's the end. We've developed a' nice friendship out of it." TERRI HALL h) Lifestyles Editor of the Daily Aigis, Meant Vereea. ii pletely carpeted with, our liquid embroidery materials." she said.

The two women have even gotten Ms. Fair's Rose Carmzza. involved sew-' ing pillows for them. They are hoping to turn the past-time into a small business if they can. One of the problems with the liquid embroidery paint, however is that it never comes off.

"You have to your mistakes," Ms. Fair said. "What hap for dads By CHARLIE SHEDD The big liner was going down at sea. It was -only a few hours now. until they would man the lifeboats.

But-since they didn't hav enoffgh life boats for everyone, some would need to swim till help came. So they stood about the deck wonder ing, crying, praying. Some tried joking. Some of the optimistic talked about their future. Two young men who had jbeen friends a long time laid out a plan for getting rich qukk.

In the. hold there was a store of goM which had been parr of the cargo. Since the ship was doomed, they would each fill a money belt. But one, sensing the danger, decided against it" Wouldn't the goM pull them under? His friend had already thought of that. He would leave tick flap open.

That way he could rid himself nf whatever weight necessary until he had exactly the right amount tostayafloat. Well, you've already -guessed the outcome. When he hit the water, the greedy young man's estimate of his own strength had been overmea-sured. He couldn't empty the flaps fast enough. Neither could he get the buckle, undone.

Down he went In full possession of all the money he. had ever wanted. Now what could add to that -these words from a college senior. In writing about his future, he says: else, I'm going to put people first. Sure.

I like the home we grew up in. The cars and all things we had. But I tell you I'm not going rrr. I schools ive jgreed to pa tojdo what-my old man didThe bltftting with tkipate. Since the Khool year ended beforeihe pro him was another buck, so it seemed all the time like my brother and sister and eyen my mother were sort of around the edges; You know what I mean? Not quite as important as his stocks and I can'lUiink of a better way to sum up both the story and the boy's letter than these words from -The Book: woridjnd lose his own soul?" from the doctor BY OR, G.C.

THOSTESON ject, really got off the ground, Prattella is to involve the entire school next after that, the community. Acjporjing to Ms. Fair, anid Ms. Hefler' liquid embroidery took over their lives long before their "bright apple" idea. Ms.

Fajr is a certified art teacher; Ms. Hefler does it tokeephersejfoutof the Since their partnersHp began, six months', ago, they've sold countless T-. shirts; pillow baby tennis pocket books, umbrellas, and nearly everything else, to all their friends, tela- Jives and neighbors. IN ADDITION to all the turtles, fislv foxes, frags, elephants and other cute, cartoon-like charac: ten. favorite liquid embroidery designs are the personalized initials they Dear Dr.

Thosteson: My daughter, who was married recently, now pregnant My husband' is so thrilled at be-' coming a grandfather be wails fa pay-all of her expenses to have the baby. I'm just wondering -what that would he nowadays? Mrs. H.L Are you and dad sitting down? It might come ax a shock tii him. but the cost of having babies has snot up just like everything else, rvad re; port recently of a study nrnducied at the triiver- sity of Chicago Lying-in Hospital How starters? That includes the flat fw for prenatal care, delivery, and post natal i are. also costs for use of the delivery room, anesthesia.

nursery ensts. and incidentals. That's an "aver age cost." Figure on even higher costs in large urban medial centers as oppos'd. lomall hospitals: Also, figure on longer hospital' slays in some areas, such as' New England, where stays longer than the average three days are the'prailice. The higher ensts in larger is in part reflects the 'higher level of care' 'avairVjble.

all rif which has lobe: Staffs; to man facilities such as laboratori for imnjocentesis' must be paid. (AmnhK-enlesis is the technique nf examining fetal sac antinhrtic fluid for potential birth You-might also u-ll your husband that the 206 can be only a beginning. If he plans to get into the post-natal act. you can add more for things such as baby cribsf diapersr and spwiaU'qiiip-. such as maternity dresses and gasoline 'costs for 'getting to and from the doctor of fltrej.

Add another A farm from the midwife, and the dining -roortilabTe, Tr' pattern, out of tennis rack baseball bats and other sports equipment. each their, However. Ms. Hefler is a' frog-loveY; Ms. Fair's-' thing, is ele- phants.

"ihadseen'a fW pic tur of rfrog on day. and I thought if I wasl going to collect. anythingrit woulaV be frogsAMs. Hefler said. "I have a frog wall hanging that says; 'Welcome to my with a frag sitting on a 'lily; and I have frog Jew- Jlnffrpi Jucitefrog sit ramies, miijlatHre.