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1 § â€" P He prances around like Fred Astaire and obviously expects me to be worthy of ‘him. Everyone else gets off the floor so they won‘t, get kicked in the head and I‘d go too if I had any sense, but I never think of this in time and so there I am, doing a very nice foxtrot, even if I do say so myself, while he does a simply splendid tango. Actually, I can only do a foxtrot so it doesn‘t matter what he does and personally I think this makes for a sense of security, I mean, anyone who dances with me knows exactly what to expect. _ > By the time midnight comes, the effect of a coke and two lemonades heavily spiked with ice and cherries has worn off. I‘m cold sober and more selfâ€"righteous than ever and to entertain myself I‘m reduced to sneaking into the children‘s bedroom to read their comics. So if you go to a party soon and discover someone sitting behind the rubber plant reading "Supermouse", «But of course I‘m not allowed to sit and talk all the time, even if I can find someone to talk to; the hostess wants everyone to dance so she can save on the drinks and it‘s always my luck to get a man who can really dance. There really isn‘t any answer to revelations of this sort unless you‘ve had a couple of strong drinks too. As a lemonade drinker, all I can think of to say is "so‘s yours", which doesn‘t set any sort of record for vibrant repartee. Occasionally, of course, one meets another nonâ€"drinker at a party, but the chances of his being handsome, witty and interesting to talk to are remote. _ _ _ * Instead he usually turns out to be a baldâ€"headed nut who has two topics of conversationâ€"the time they took out his gallbladder and made a booboo of the job (and he demonstrates what they should have done, using your smoked oyster), and his motherâ€"inâ€"law‘s habit of cutting her toenails while she watches TV. And afterwards your hostess comes ove:/gi{hispers, "I invited Cecil especiâ€" ally Ipr you, dear; use I knew you‘d have a lot in common." But apart from anything else, I‘m further handiâ€" capped by being a nonâ€"drinker; this means that I spend the evening watching everyone else get sloshed and listenâ€" ing to jokes that everyone but me thinks are hilarious. One devastating result of party dgrinking which I‘ve been waiting for Dr. Mutchmore to mention for years is that after a drink or two your friends get the urge to tell you the truth about yourself. This is not the advantage you might think; in quick succession at one party I was told that (@) I wasn‘t funny any more, (b) I should never wear pink shorts because I looked like a houseboat from the back, and (c) that I should go to a psychiatrist before it was too late. Sooner or later, someone will organize a team kissâ€" ing game during which you find yourself being kissed by at least five different men, one of whom is sure to have a kissing action like a new vacuum cleaner. You discover later that he achieves this remarkable effect by taking out his top teeth before he gets cracking. But the worst part of kissing games is that they‘re not hygienic as you realize when you see your husband kissing a sexy brunette. People don‘t realize that this sort of thing can have serious consequences, like receding gums. ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ But on the other hand, I can‘t just say I don‘t want to go because this is like saying I‘m against motherhood. Of course, after four children, I am, but we won‘t go into that now. You see, every normal, redâ€"blooded, swingâ€" ing Canadian girl (using the word loosely) is supposed to love parties and the opportunity to get kissed by someâ€" one else other than her husband and Aunty Winnie. But this kissing bit is part of the problem unless you‘re nymâ€" phomaniacâ€"your host starts it off when you arrive and leaves you feeling as if you‘ve been slobbered over by a big doggie with halitosis, but I can put up with this even if I do have to go into the bathroom and dry off afterâ€" wards. After all, he is your host and he deserves someâ€" thing for giving up his Saturday night hockey, but there‘s more to come. _ ~aA 0_ This unnatural attitude on my part is not just the result of m though that‘s coming on fast, because I‘ve always been this mytbout parties. I can remember being dragged to a S school party when I was five and deliberately being sick op the vicar‘s brown boots when he bent over to ask me whether I was a good girl. It‘s true that some kind but misguided soul had just given me hot water to drink instead of cold water, but that was no excuse. I mean, I was (h: I had ruined the vicar‘s boots, so you can see that ever then parties brought out the best in me. So it‘s not surprising that by this time I‘m a chronic partyâ€"pooper and I‘ve reached the stage where I don‘t even want to beâ€"asked to parties. * If I‘m asked, I have to think of some plausible excuse for not going, right on the spur of the moment, which taxes my imagination and my conscience, especially if I have just been lecturing the children on always telling the truth. I can‘t keep saying that my husband‘s got boils or the children are frotBing at the mouth, especially if they‘re not going to coâ€"operate. _ e water bottle, J!flh contented that we are home by ourâ€" selves while all around us the rest of the town is whoopâ€" ing it up and the freezing rain is falling outside. No, not just eonfinzâ€"whcfly delighted, in fact. . ‘Now that the party season is here &gain, you will find me and the rest of us partyâ€"poopers in our beds, tucked up with a good book or two and our teddy bear and our hot SALLY SCOIT1 T change in an instant, but we We are all at some times a bit snobbish, I think. With your background and training it is quite likely that his rough speech grates on your ears. If you love this man enough to accept him for his good qualities, and do not make too great an issue of his speech, you might gently lead him into better habits and greater control of his tongue. In the circle in which this man moves, his speech is not only acceptable, but sit is probâ€" ably a necessity. The men he Dear Sally Seott: I teach school and have: fallen in love with a wonderful man, who is a bit of a rough diamond. He has worked himself up from & laborer to the owner of a busiâ€" ness, His grammar is very poor and makes me ashamed before my friends. I feel that I may be acting like a snobâ€"which I am not! I must do something about this butâ€"do not want ruin things between us. How should this problem be treated, Sally? â€""Puzzled"â€"Islington to take some pleasures. Dear "Puzzled" that will be me, partyâ€"whooping like mad. Just cover me over again and leave me alone until it‘s time to go home. I‘m taking my pleasure seriously, which is the only way A LONGâ€"TIME LAKESHORE RESIDENT, Mrs. Fanny Pike, celebrated her 100th birthday Monday at Lambert Lodge. Mrs. Pike came to Canada more than 60 years ago and settled on the Lakeshore. Her Between 4th and 5th Streets, New Toronto "OUR 27th YEAR ON"THE LAKESHORE" UP 10 OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF FINE FURS BUDGET TERMS EASILY ARRANGED ! FUR JANUARY says: 505 OFF 100 years old Have you ever wished that you could be made over? To be made more interesting and more knowledgeable? Maybe give your personality a sparkle, or just make you aware of the world around you? Your classroom speech is acâ€" ceptable among your scholars, but would not be acceptable among your husband‘s friends. So you have a problem, too. Think it over carefully before you take the final step, and find out which is the most important for you to live with, a rough diamond or fine spegch! Well, that is how I feelâ€"mayâ€" be it‘s the weatherâ€"but I would like to be different from the mousy person I am. What can be done about me? works with respond to it, and would reject any other kind of talk. â€"Plain Jane, Long Branch Dear "Plain Jane": Unfortunately we eannot Dear Sally Diamond in rough could be polished son, Frank, lives in New Toronto. Relaâ€" tives and friends gathered at the lodge Monday night to help Mrs. Pike celebrate her birthday. . Sally Scott Each of us has been given special abilities and talents â€" many that we take for granted â€" . â€" or don‘t even recognize. Just think how different we all be changed. Or, to use a better word, developed. Water Heater Rental We have therefore applied to the Provincial Hydro Commission for permission to adjust the rates on residential accounts issued on and after March 1, 1968, as follows: . First 60 Kilowatt Hours Remainder ... Flat Rate Water Heating To reflect the recently announced increase in the cost of power supplied to us by the Ontario Hydro, it has become. necessary to increase our own rates accordingly. . ETOBICOKE HYDRO RESIDENTIAL RATES â€" Except for the adjustment in rates to the former Lakeshore Municipalities in April 1967, this is the first increase since 1960. During this same period, the wholesale cost of power has arisen some 19%. Etobicoke Hydro has no . special immfinity to all the other ‘increased costs of providing service, and you will realize that these rising costs must unavoidably be reflected in our rates. , R. Clarke Wardliaw, N Chairman (Leon Sait Photo) Etobicoke Hydro Commission (Any problems, folks? Take them to Sally Scott, c/o this paper, and she will help you with advice.) Cheer up, we all get these down in the mouth feelings. Just try some of the above and see how they work. But first of all, go to a hair stylist, and get your hair made over; get & facial; buy a new dress or a new hat. All of these things will make you feel wonderful. Try them and see. would be if we made the most of them. Why not go to a charm school, or to a modelling class? It is wonderful how people attending such classes turn out. Or go to university night classes, and take journalism or short story writing. First thing you know you will be filled with such imagination that you will respond to it and be a new person. The next general meeting of the Toronto W!t Branch, Assoâ€" ciation of A istrative Assisâ€" tant or Private Secretaries, will be held January 17, 1967 at Valhalla Inn at 8 p.m. During the past year, Mrs. Beryl Adams, on behalf of the branch, presented a scholarshipâ€" to Miss Janet Kubbinga of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute to help further her education in the field of secretarial science. More than 200 people have lege Registrar Harry Edmunds a local group, interested in the registered in Humber College‘s _ said this week, subject, enrolled enâ€"masse, Mr. evening extension program, Colâ€" * _ "We were cuite pnleased with _ Edmunds said. Girk Friday‘s set meeting 200 flocll to Humber _for evening courses â€"â€" LESS 10% PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT â€" TO MONEY MANAGEMENT no change no thange 4.0c¢ per Kilowatt Hour 1.0¢ per Kilowatt Hour Present Monthly Rates John P. MacBeth, Q.C. Viceâ€"Chairman CLASSES FROM ESKIMOS â€"Sally Scott Seminars planned by YMCA Lakeshore parents are invited to take part in a series of YMCA seminars at.the Central YMCA, 40 College Street, durâ€" ing January and February. Other courses deal with the effective parent, sex in our changing world and human relaâ€" tions development.. Registration for the courses takes place at the Central YMCA January 8â€"12. For further information call 921â€"5171. Tuning in the other generaâ€" tion, a new concept in parentâ€" children communication begins January 18. The family fee for 10 sessions is $35. The courses will study Man, as a person, as & parent and as a professional, "We never did think we‘d be running them all," Mr. Edmunds said. "We weren‘t sure which ones would interest people, so we let them chose." One of the largest classes, with a total enroliment of 30, deals with the past, present and future of the Canadian Indian and Eskimo. The enrollment for this particular course is high because "We were quite uund with the furnout," he The College is offering 15 courses of the .35 originally advertised. Effective March 1, 1968 4.4¢c per Kilowatt Hour 1.1¢c per Kilowatt Hour . A. Horton, Mayor of 10 persons enrolled in investâ€" ment and money management. Enrollment was low too for speed writing. _ . _ _ Mr. Edmunds said a great deal of interest was shown in credit coursef. However most people had already enrolled in fall classes Fees for the credit courses are $35 per subject, and for the nonâ€" credit course, $20 per subject. _Only three of the 15 courses offered lead to a credit towards & college diploma. _ e in other schools, and felt they hadn‘t the time to begin another course. He added that, because of the interest, the college will . offer more evening credit courses in the fall of 1968. Customer‘s vase with sentifmenâ€" tal value picked up by mistake, by the wrong person, at Cloverâ€" dale Florist on Saturday, Det, 23rd, es e Flower Arrangement. Size: 6" to 7" high CUT GLASS BASKET Please Contact Cloverdale Florist in the Cloverdale REWARD The smallest class is made up Another high interest course Mall. 233â€"1711