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HERALD Sarflon B IMS Most store-sold condoms now purchased by women 2 IMS by UaImtuI Pnu Syndicate B y A b i g a i l V a n B u r e n her's apron strings are too strong ABBY: I am an attractive, single, 32 years old. For the last three I've been in love with a kind, successful, who is 48. We share common in- , he treats me very well and be says he s. We've talked extensively about mar- ! brought the subject up initially.) im: At 4S he still lives with his 79- lg mother. He never married. As i as he cares for me, and I do believe be ne, he can't bring himself to leave his r. T*vC tried pklience, persuasion, con- and ultimatums, but he can't deal idea of leaving his mother. I'm ited, jealous and angry. My friends tell i wasting my time. I've tried to break off t, but I was miserable! re been to two different family rs without success. He won't return to because they both told him his the root of his problem. Now he ( to see another counselor. yon any suggestions. Abby? I don't be his "girlfriend" until his mother TIRED OF WAITING TIRED: I suspect a symbiotic rela- mother and son. (He needs i is she needs him; Possibly more.) f, 1 think he's using his mother to avoid Further, a man who ducks counsel- ibe doesn't want to know the truth is just putting his problems on hold. Don't fight too hard for thift prize. You might get him. DEAR ABBY: My husband's father passed away recently after a long illness. He couldn't go home for the funeral because he had just been there the week before to visit his father in the hospital. His folks live nearly 3,000 milei' from us. My question: Do you think my husband should have sent a condolence card to his mother? He called her up and sent flowers, but no card. One of my husband's sisters said he should have also sent a card. I've asked several friends and relatives, and they all agreed that it wasn't necessary for my husband to send his mother a card. In keeping with my sister-in- law's line of thinking, shouldn't my mother-in- law send her son a condolence card? After all, he lost his father. Was my husband remiss in not sending a card? And what do you think of his sister? JUST ASKING DEAR JUST: I think your husband said it all when he called his mother and sent flowers. His sister is in one of the first stages of grief--anger. Forgive her. DEAR ABBY: The next time the subject of pedestrians or joggers comes up In your col­ umn, please mention the&td rule that anyone on foot, regardless of rate of speed, should always walk facing the oncoming traffic. I've seen people in some very hazardous situations because they're walking with the traffic instead of against it. KATHRYN IN R(fcK CITY, ILL. DEAR KATHRYN: Why wait for4Mo come up? It's worth bringing, up. And in case pedestrians don't know it, they should always walk on the left side of the road. DEAR ABBY: Please help settle a family dispute. Do you or don't you peel a banana from the stem? GOING BANANA IN SEATTLE DEAR GOING: To my knowledge, there is no "correct" way to peel a banana, but I peel mine from the stem. (Is your social life in a slump? Lonely? Get Abby's up­ dated, revised and expanded booklet, "How to Be Popular" - for people of all ages. Send your name and ad­ dress clearly printed with a check or money order for $2.50 and a long, stamped (39 cents) self-addressed envelope to: Dear Abby, Popularity. P.O. Box 3W23. Hollywood, Calif. tt)03a.) the times of Grover Cleveland ;Garnett i Howard News Service my friends who took notice that I am now 96 years 1 that when I was born was president of [ States. He wondered I of man Cleveland was and f that a tot of people also anybody who wants to know facts needs only to turn torld Almanac, but that wor- i does not tell the fact that at Cleveland, in his second as White House occupant, my father, Algernon Hill t, as the first postmaster of of White Rock, Okla. That red away and became Bill- }le County, Okla.,„and I much whether what is i a post office. greater public notice above was given to the fact Grover Cleveland won the ma- Century Bound jority vote for president three times, but was declared elected only twice -- in 1884, lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and won from James G. Blaine in 1892. There was no big national debt, no worry- about the budget of the feder­ al government, but there was much worry about silver and gold, and unemployment and business depres­ sion. Cleveland was not divorced, but he acknowledged being father of a child born to an unmarried woman in Buffalo, N.Y. He was married to Frances Folsom at the White House in 1886. ' 1 was about 9 years old wHMt father became postmaster at Whttr Bock, but I remember "hard times" and populism and Bryan and Free Silver, which I believe Cleveland didn't like. The Democrats, or most of them, wanted some sort of relief for the unemployed and they thought that if coins were turned out by the mint in Denver, it would be some­ thing like Social Security. At least my nine years old^iXMwmic scholar­ ship nursed some such notion. I sup­ pose I thought that "free silver" coins would be handed out to poor people and the government would see to it that gold coins would buy 16 times as much as silver ones, and hard times would go floating away. It could have been called "Bryano- mics," I suppose. (*t is a - _ in Keya k weekly A trying to tive to be 100'years old.) Codes for freshness MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (UPI) -- A new labeling and scanning sys­ tem has been developed which may help consumers from ending up with food (nt other perishable items al­ ready spoiled when purchased. The Allied Corp. says its new hand-held computer system, called LifeLines, can "read" labels to de­ termine the condition of a product. The labels contain a bar code and are imprinted with a sensitive poly­ mer which reacts to cumulative temperature exposure. Allied says the system can tell its users which products should be shipped before their shelf life ex- BiteSt even ahead of products which may Jiave been stored longer bftt have a greater remaining shelf life. NEW YORK (UPI) - Most con­ doms sold in pharmacies and gro­ cery stores are bought by women, and manufacturers of the contracep­ tives are responding with advertis­ ing aimed at a female audience, a magazine reports. "The $200 million-a-year condom industry now realizes it takes two to tango. It recently started marketing rubbers to women," Working Wom­ an magazine said in its October is­ sue, released Monday. "In the past, we felt that our tar­ get audience was male, 18 to 34. But things have changed. Women who have come off the pill are looking for a method they feel is safe," said Brent Gulick, condom manager of Schmid Products Co. The magazine said the number of women buying condoms has risen about 25 percent from 15 percent in the mid-1970s to as blgti as 40 percent. The reason? _ "Condoms are the only Contracep­ tives that are also effective venereal disease barriers," the magazine said. The condom industry ts taking no­ tice of its female customers. "Condom packages are colorful now and they re on display so wom­ en can buy them without embarrass­ ment," said pharmacist Frederick Mayer of Sausalito, Calif. "Women are the primary purchasers in phar­ macies and grocery stores." Two of the major condom compa­ nies also are pushing the Yuppie favorite -- lambskins at a price of $1.50 to $1.75 each, working Woman said. „ . The latex price tag is 25 cents to 50 cents, the magazine said. doooocooooonrnnrnnnnnnnnnrr^--1""""" YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR FALL OPEN HOUSE at BEV'S WORLD SUNDAY,SEPT.29 1220 N.GREEN ST. 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