Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 23

DG FltzMaurlce ConirDut'ng Hera-9-LeaJerFrank Anderson Penny Moore feeds guinea pigs she raises at her home Her husband Dan made the cages which hold 56 adults and 12 babies Right car can put man on the road to romance With Valentine's Day just a few heartbeats away it seems an appropriate time to examine the curious case of the geriatric gigolo who has given the country a nasty bout of bum" About a month ago a man named Arthur Frankford was arrested in McCreary County on a drunken-driving charge Shortly thereafter Kentucky Personally Ttoper speaking Regal Bruner the arresting officer was watching KBCs Mysteries" when face flitted across the screen The man was wanted in Florida for stealing jewels from a widow and swiping a rented Lincoln Trooper Bruner and McCreary County Sheriff Virgil Gibson fearing that Frankford would flee arrested the man who was known to his neighbors as James Wallace Ferguson According to the FBI the man's real name is Thomas Donaldson but you can call him At least 40 women had done just that The county constabulary has heard that Donaldson has been married 40 times never been divorced" Either got a lousy memory or a heart as big as all Kentucky as well as several surrounding states His conscience may be another matter however I find it interesting that Bruner was watching for perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery is the allure of this 77-year-old Casanova I mean to be unkind for newspaper photos don't always capture the essence and inner beauty of a person (witness mine for example) but the picture we ran reflects less than die Adonis-like I creature I had expected I Donaldson's weathered features are framed by a pair of spectacles through which he appears to be squinting His hat while sporting a colorful brim is unremarkable in every other aspect and his stone-washed jeans and matching jacket are not an ensemble that would inspire a second glance from us snappy dressers McCreary County Jailer Bon By bee is also puzzled by Donaldson's apparent appeal to the opposite sex about half-bald and he got any teeth but I told my wife Joyce I didn't want her around Bybee reported that between 30 and 40 women strangers most of them had come to the jail to try to get a look at Donaldson so the mystique exists still As your designated Observer of Life I have discovered a phenomenon that I have scientically classified as the Attractive Women Are Attracted to Really Ugly Guys" syndrome Methinks case is just the latest instance of this bizarre situation I first became aware of this phenomenon while I was a freshman in college I had just left the library when I noticed a really ugly guy escorting a stunning young woman I shouted to my buddy a really ugly guy with that stunning young lady" My friend just shook his head only a freshman and have yet to appreciate what's really important in life She's a mature young lady who obviously looks past skin-deep beauty She sees his inner word his gentle manliness his compassion his Mercedes-Benz" I learned a lesson that day The syndrome has its widest exposure in the CBS-TV show and the in which an attractive woman is in love with either a kind of cute beast-man or a really ugly man-beast I watched the show and remained mystified until the final segment when the cat and his lady drove off in his Jaguar As long as he can keep up the payments I think live happily ever after Before I alienate my readers of the distaff persuasion let me hasten to add that I am not so cynical as to believe most women love men because of die size of their hubcaps Still a luxury car even a rented Lincoln hurt right? Couple have room in house hearts for 68 guinea pigs By Dottie A Bean Herald-Leader staff writer enny Moore says guinea pigs are the I perfect pets They don't bark or bite you have to walk them and you can keep them in places where you keep dogs or cats Mrs Moore should know She has 56 adult guinea pigs and 12 babies in cages in a bedroom in her home on Dorset Drive The guinea pigs share the room with more than 100 birds canaries finches cockateels lovebirds and parakeets Four poodles and a blue-front Amazon parrot complete what Mrs Moore calls Menagerie" Mrs Moore and her husband Danny have six breeds of guinea pigs ranging in color from black to a pale lilac They raise the animals to show and selL They show the guinea pigs in competitions and hope to get others interested in showing them too now for us to go to a show we have to travel up in Ohio or out West to find enough people to have sane Moore said hoping to get some people around Lexington Central Kentucky or anywhere close interested in showing guinea pigs" The American Rabbit Breeders Association sponsors the American Cavy Breeders Association There are at least seven varieties of cavy or guinea pig ranging from the kinky-haired Teddy to the long-haired Peruvian The Moores belong to the Lexington Rabbit and Cavy Club which meets monthly at the University of ES Good Bam The club will sponsor a fun match at the Good Bam on April 29 the match is for children who have pet guinea pigs or rabbits Moore said he was building a race track for the match and will try to train guinea pigs to race In November the club also will hold an American Rabbit Breeders Association-sanctioned show for rabbits and guinea pigs Guinea pigs are judged on coat texture and color The animals must be in good health and within weight For example a guinea pig up to 4 months of age should weigh 12 ounces to 22 ounces Show pigs also must have all their toes and toenails Judges also look at the straightness of the teeth Guinea pigs are rodents and their incisors grow continuously If the incisors overgrow they have to be nipped off or the animal eat and drink (Turn to GUINEA backpage) Two-week-old long-haired Peruvian guinea pig looks at the world from the pocket of Dan Moore's shirt Intimate dinner party heading toward extinction with them" The dinner-party dearth is not solely a Philadeiphia-area phenomenon In Boston parties are not alive and well" Selby Holmberg said in a recent telephone interview A native of die Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia Holmberg is spokeswoman for the Boston headquarters of the National Association of Independent Schools work full time" she said I have friends who lead more traditional lives and they say not doing as much entertainment and not being invited out to for In Washington Raymond Smock said Turn to PARTIES back page) remember spending about two days on that he said do I remember" And now? formal dinner party golly we had one in probably three years" Parker said we been to one The most recent one was about a year Carol Dorey and her husband run Leighton Dorey Real Estate out of a restored Colonial house in the northern Bucks County village of Springtown used to do big parties lots of people" she said recently but now far prefer just having a few (for dinner because) you can find what's going on By Walter Naedele Kmght-Ridder Newt Service HILADELPHIA Something is blowing out the candles at that wanning staple of wintertime the private dinner party It's a chilling breeze blowing through the dining rooms of some of the moderately affluent where the tinkling of wine glasses once sang a pretty song The breeze has been stirred by the demands of the two-income family some say or by a change in how folks share friendships or simply by a need for more quiet time It appears to have emptied kitchens from the woods of suburban upper Bucks County Pa to the townhouses of Center City Philadelphia as fewer people seem to be opening wide their doors to share a cozy evening at home Peter Parker president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania who lives in a large Victorian house in Philadelphia's Germantown section might seem the sort of well-connected follow who would entertain at hone 10 years ago we used to do one a Parker said in a recent interview of them were small some fairly sizable" In fact he remembers cooking for 24 at one sitting.