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TOST-CAZElTEi MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1971 .13 PAT Passes Appreciated Elderly Ride More, Thank Lottery being robbed while waiting don't know what they'd do fa 1 7 By KATHRYN ROBERTS Poit-Gmette Staff Writer Bring another year older doesn't bother Mabel Harris, whose birthday was Oct. 1, because now she qualifies for free bus fare under the Port Authority's discount for senior citizens. "I'll ride more, often," says Mrs. Harris, who lives In the Episcopal Church Home in Lawrenceville. "I'll use it to go visiting, to church or shopping.

It will be a great help, really, just like a new-found mode of transportation." Before her birthday Mrs. Harris explains she had to pay full fare for her trips twice a week downtown or to church in East Liberty. "I don't get rides," she adds, "I just spend my little 40 cents. Most of the people here (at the home) ride the bus and they want to know why I was putting money in." Beside upping the number of her weekly excursions Mrs. Harris plans to start buying lottery tickets.

I met one lady who told me she rides the bus for free and buys lot-t tickets because that helps pay for the cast of her ride, I think that's very nice and I'm going to do that also when I start." THE SENIOR citizen free-ride program is administered by the state Department of Ann Landers ly-'i'fivt' Garotte PholM bv CHARLES 5TUEBGEN Post Two Views on Suicide which will be open from 5 to 10 p. tomorrow at the Longue Vue Club, Verona. Wednesday and Thursday hours are 10 a. m. to 9 p.

while Friday the Mart will be open from 10 to 2. Dinners will he served Tuesday through Thursday and luncheons on Wednesday to Friday, with reservations at the Club recommended. The Michael Carney Trio will play the opening night. Marty's All Set Mrs. Martin H.

Walrath general chairman of the eleventh annual Christmas Mart of the Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh, confers with Louis Talotta of Park Interiors, Center Ave. For the fourth year he has offered his help as coordinator of the Treasure Room, a popular feature of the Mart Slop Killing Yourself Moderation Is Answer for the bus or after getting off. Still the anecdotes outweigh the anathemas. A part-time employe with the Visiting Nurses' Association on the Northside describes how elderly people have been liberated by the free fare. An older patient told a nurse who works from the VNA office that she was delighted she could go to the doctor's office more often.

When the nurse queried, "how come?" the patient said she uses her bus pass before she couldn't afford the trips. Another little old woman who literally had to watch her pennies was alone. Now she takes the bus to visit friends and they can return her visit. And then there was the elderly woman who uses the bus as an unconventional solution to her health problems. She lives in the vicinity of a supermarket and was boarding a bus to shop when a friend asked why she was taking a bus when there was a store nearby.

The retiree retorted she had trouble walking but with her free fare pass she could board a bus right at her home and get off in front of the more distant market, shop, and return via the same door-to-door route. more comfortable cozily tucked into a cradle than abandoned to a large crib. "Since a baby assures himself that all is well largely through the messages he receives from i skin, support he receives in the enveloping environment of a cradle in contrast to the amorphousness of a crib is very reassuring. The cradle provides something of a replication, a continuation of the life he led so long in the womb, and this is good and comforting. "WHEN THE BABY feels uncomfortable or insecure he may whimper, a if his mother or anyone else rocks the cradle, this will have a soothing effect.

Rocking reassures the baby, for in his mother's womb he was naturally rocked by the normal motions of her body. To be comfortable means to be comforted, and for the infant this comfort is largely derived from the signals he receives from his skin. The greatest of all comforts is to be cradled in i mother's arms or supported on her back in a baby carrier. "And the benefits of rocking, whether in arms, cradle or chair, are considerable. When the baby is too warm the rocking has a cooling effect, hastening evaporation from his skin.

When he is too cold, the rocking helps warm him. The warming has a hypnotic effect on i and is soothing to his nervous system. Above all, the rocking motion produces a gentle stimulation of almost every area of his skin, which produces physiological benefits of every kind." how about gettin out that old cradle? All Right Rwervwj THE BETTER HALF It -7 "Home on OUR range you hear without it. AND SENIOR citizens admit they don't know what they'd do without It. Mrs.

Lillian Byrne, 76, also a resident of the Episcopal home, capitalizes on the free fare three or four times a week to do her shopping. Although she sometimes can't get a seat, Mrs. Byrne says she carries a light load and makes more trips. "I depend entirely on the Mrs. Byrne says.

"I don't have a car never did. I'm praising PAT and Gov. Shapp and anybody else who had anything to do with it to permit free riding on the bus because it's expensive otherwise." Certainly not all the retiree participants are women. Men ride the bus too but they don't discuss their travels as freely as the ladies. Mrs.

Lillian Byers also of Lawrenceville says, "Oh my husband has been using the senior citizen pass ever since it started he's 7 8 We don't have a car we're on Social Security so we can't so we have to depend mostly on PAT. We go shopping or go to visit relatives or friends." WHILE MANY participants say the only problem they have is not being able to get a seat, others tell of more unpleasant experiences, such as By LOUISE B. AMES, Ph.D. Manufacturers nowadays tell us a lot about elaborate infant cribs with attachments which light up, play music, flash pictures on a screen, provide little fish tanks so that fish can swim around at the baby's eye level. They tell us that if you don't provide such stimuli, your child's mind will suffer.

'Hopefully, not too many of you will fall for this hard sell. There is another possible alternative to the usual unem-bellished baby crib. Joseph and Laurie Braga, in their interesting book, "Growing with Children" (Prentice Hall), suggest that some new parents might at least consider going back to the cradle. They have this to say: "In AMERICA, the cradle was banished to the attic in the early 1900s when the notion became fashionable that fondling and rocking a baby endangered his development as an unspoiled independent person. It has never made a real comeback, and we occasionally speculate on a possi-b 1 connection in the aptly named 'rock music of our day, sometimes plaintive and beautiful as a lullaby, sometimes strident and percussive.

Perhaps this music and dancing represent both an uncon-s i protest against an earlier lack of cradling and rocking and a compensation for it. "Having spent the whole of his preceding life snugly ensconced in his mother's womb, a baby would certainly feel emen Cheryl Darovsky Announcement of engagement of Cheryl Barovsky to Garry Jay Bloch has been made by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Barovsky of Stanton Heights. Mr.

Bloch is the son of Mrs. Henry Bloch, also of Stanton Heights, and the late Mr. Bloch. The bride-elect, a graduate of Robert Morris College, is employed at West enn Hospital. Her fiance is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh.

They are planning a summer wedding. Miss Barovsky Is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Glasser of Charleston, W. Va.

William Presents Informal Modeling Monday DEAR ANN LANDERS: Several times I've been inclined to rebut someone who had expressed an opinion in your column. I a never moved to write until now. The writer addressed her remarks to "those who have attempted suicide, or are now considering it." She begged them to think of their loved ones and the guilt they would carry to their graves because of something they had done or NOT done. Rubbish! Applesauce! Horsefeathers! The person who is contemplating suicide is full of haffe. He really hates himself, manages to transfer that hate to others.

His only goal is to make that person or r-sons suffer. Almost every suicide stems from the thought, "They will be sorry for the way they treated me!" My advice to would-be suicides is this: Stop kidding yourself. They will be sorry. If you commit suicide you'll prove they were right when they said you were too weak to face life. Their battle cry is, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." So, you got out of the kitchen and left it all to them.

You also left a sunny day in June, the beautiful girl you might have kissed, the book you might have read, the dress your daughter will wear at her wedding, and your first grandchild's heartwarming smile. Think. Think. IT HAPPEN DEAR SEEN: Thanks for an excellent appraisal. The psychiatrists are on your side.

Yet the next letter is very interesting. DEAR ANN LANDERS: I water a day is sufficient (in addition to other liquids mentioned above). And it's likely that your friend will do well on cutting her 10-glass regimen to five (in addition to other liquids). "Could you please explain the symptoms of apnea? Is it a dangerous illness?" Mrs. C.

APNEA Is not an illness; It Is a symptom. It is a temporary cessation of breathing. Sometimes caused by excess accumulation, of oxygen, or by an insufficient amount of carbon dioxide in the brain. "I WAS TOLD that a cataract is a thin skin that grows over the eye. "I was told also that it is the lens in the eye that becomes cloudy.

When it is removed by surgery, sight is restored with the aid of glasses. "Which is correct? First or second?" Mr. C. Second! "I AM 74 and have a small hiatal hernia which gives me no trouble. Is surgery always necessary for such hernias?" Mrs.

K. USUALLY NOT. Conservative medical treatment is sufficient, to make the patient comfortable. More often, as in your case, there a no symptoms at all. "Your dermatologist will Transportation with funds supplied from proceeds of the state lottery.

It provides free rides during off-peak hours to county residents 65 years of age and over. John T. Mauro, executive director of the Port Authority, estimates that some 10,000 senior citizens ride the bus each day. "It depends on the weather," Mauro adds. "If it's a nice day, there's a big surge in riders." There has been a slight increase in participants in the free-fare propram, Mauro want to thank the woman who advised suicidal people to give some thought to those they love.

Her letter killed an idea that has been in my mind for quite a while. The overwhelming desire to escape the pain of living can be most appealing to one who suffers a lot. I know, because I've considered suicide many times. But I was always stopped by a nagging feeling that I shouldn't no real reason, just something told "Don't do it." That woman's letter gave me the reason. I'm a college student (girl, age 19).

For the past ten months I've been in a deep depression. I'm climbing out of it now and feel confident I'll make it. There'll be times perhaps when I'll slip, now I know why I must never let go. Thank you, Ann, for printing that letter. It was a life-saver.

RESCUED DEAR FRIEND: You don't say you've been getting professional help. If you haven't, please consider it. Periodic bouts with deep depression are tough to handle alone. Good luck, honey. "tar" 74.

says. When the policy started in July, 1973 PAT received a $2.3 million subsidy from PennDOT. This year, he says, TAT is requesting $2.5 million based on the projected number of senior citizen riders. Mauro says the program, row in its second year, has made "an appreciable difference in ridership in the middle of the day. It's a wonder-f 1 program.

It provides mobility so senior citizens can get out and participate in the community particular'y in these times of inflation. I DEAR ANN LANDERS: My wife (let's call her Mary) belongs to a number of charitable organizations. She keeps getting correspondence addressed to "Mrs. Mary Smith." After a year, I remarked quite casually that we aren't divorced, I'm not dead yet and I'd prefer that she list herself as Mrs. John Smith.

She hit the roof. I can see a woman using her first name or maiden name for professional purposes, but my wife is not employed and I believe she is clearly out of line. Do you SMITH DEAR JOHN: The fact that you ask her should be enough. As a matter of social i-quette, she is Mrs. John Smith.

I'm with you. A no-nonsense approach to how to deal with life's most difficult and most rewarding arrangement. Ann Landers's booklet, "Marriage What to Expect," will prepare you for better or for worse. Send your request to Ann Landers, P. O.

Box 1400, Elgin, Illinois 60120, enclosing 50 cents in coin and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope. (Copyrldht 1974) TO MINIMIZE odor on hands when handling seafoods chill hands thoroughly in cold water before handling. Then cleanse hands with salt and hot water before using soap. Rub hands with lemon for a final, fresh touch. Judith A.

Salley A May wedding is planned by Judith A. Salley and James W. Steffan. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs.

Regis Salley of Squirrel Hill and Mr. and Mrs. James Steffan of Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Salley is a junior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and her fiance is serving aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Kennedy, based in Norfolk, Va.

Michelle L. Simpson The engagement of Michelle L. Simpson to David B. Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard J. Murray of Upper St. Clair, has been announced by her mother, Mrs. John M. Simpson III, also of Upper St.

Clair. The bride-elect works at Maggi's clothing store in South Hills Village. Her fiance is a junior at Bethany College in West Virginia majoring in economics. Andrea Kay Pellz Plans are being made for a May 24 wedding by Andrea Kay Peltz and James F. McClure whose betrothal was announced recently by parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Nicholas Peltz of Arnold, Pa. Mr. McClure is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

James F. McClure Sr. of Mt. Washington. The bride-elect is majoring in nursing at Carlow College.

Mr. McClure attended Robert Morris College and works as a laboratory sampler for the county's sanitation authority. By P. J. STEINCROHN, M.D.

"Just how much water is it necessary to drink every day for good health? Personally, I hate the stuff. I have to force myself to drink as much as two glassfulls a day. "A friend of mine drinks at least 10 glasses of water. She tells me that without all that water it is not possible to stay well. i "Will you help solve the problem?" MODERATION Is the answer somewhere between your friend's intake and yours.

It is' true that water is essential for good health. However, there is a common-sense limit to imbibing H20. Anywhere from 60 to 70 per cent of body weight is water. Most people know that we can exist without food for many weeks, but only for days without water. Your own thirst should be a good guide for how much water your body requires.

Normally, we need about three quarts a day. But at least half of this comes from other liquids such as coffee, tea, soups and other drinks which we take in addition to water. The rest comes from the water in foods. Some fruits are 90 per cent water. I believe that increasing your intake to five glasses of By Barnes a lot of discouraging wordsl" decide on the best treatment for removing excess hair says Dr.

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