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I have read with interest the debate concerning the • traditional" vs the working mother A careful look at history will show that the generation of mothers following World War II are the only ones who fit our stereotype of. the traditional mother. That was the only generation of American women who had the luxury of stating "housewife" as their only occupation. FROM THE FOUNDING of this country, women have worked. They have worked on farms and in stores. Poor women have worked in the homes of the rich. Women figure prominently in the labor movement. It ups women who fought for better working conditions in factories both befoK and after the Triangle fire where so many women died. The woman who supported her family or helped her husband support the family is the true tradition in this country. Betsy Ross was a working mother ROSEMARY DeNOTE WILDWOOD CREST Peggie Best To The Editor: Many politicians behave like fickle, spoiled brats. If they can't have their way in obtaining certain jobs for themselves and their friends, they look for greener fields Yes. the grass always looks greener on the other side. On my side of the fence, the grass couldn't look or be greener or better trimmed In the center of it stands the best candidate for council at large that the Towaship of Lower can ever hope to produce The candidate of the people, for the people, with the peo pie, and the taxpayers watch dog is Peggie Bieberbach. Contrary to belief, the grass is greener in my own back vard. CASS EDWARDS Town Bank Two Weeks' Trash? To The Editor: I would hope all Lower Towaship taxpayers will object to the new proposed trash collection schedule on holidays Keeping two weeks' trash around your home is very unhcalthful. plus odor from same Attend township meetings and speak out against same. This new holiday schedule takes affect Oct. 14 VINCENT McMAHON Villas

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Lookin' and Listenin' A Delightful? Cruise to Cape May By DOROTHY D. FRKAS Something new in this advertisement! A cruise with three days on an iron ship which had just arrived in New York ( !860i Go from New York City to Cape May. N.J., with staterooms for the ladies and dormitories of mattresses for the men Good food, a known band playing for entertainment and for dancing. AH aboard July 31st. sail for Cape May at 3 p.m. Arriving August 1st in the early morning; there will be a day on shore in Cape May for those who wish it. Sailing late in the day. the ship will reach New York in the early morning hours of August 2nd. This was to be an historic trip on this new type vessel and about 1500 hundred people paid to take the cruise, in spite of the S.S. Great Eastern's reputation for minor accidents and incidents, although she laid the Atlantic Cable four years later. AS THE SHIP SAILED south out of New York harbor, all good viewing areas along the shore were filled with crowds. To see this huge < for its time) paddle-wheeler moving smoothly along was quite a sight. Many small steamers and pleasure craft followed her as she sailed southward. At Sandy Hook, the pilot left the Great Eastern and then the escorting boats turned back, and so on she headed for Cape May. With the first hours of excitement now past, a crowd of hundreds decided that the sea air had made them hungry, and they rushed to the diningrooms The waiters, some new at the job. were confused by the sudden appearance of a mob. and tried to follow orders, but greedy hands grabbing food off the trays that they were car- ( Page 63 Please)

The Golden Edge House-Bound? You Can Draw By DOROTHEA F. COOPER Don't you love it when summer visitors ask the exasperating question: "What DO you DO down here in the winter time?" As though the recreational facilities in big cities are delightful and take up most of their leisure time. Actually, some of these are the very people who don't move out of their urban homes all winter long to take advantage of these goodies. What DO we do? Well, there's bingo — almost everynight of the week and sometimes even in the afternoon— demonstrations of plastic kitchen wares, jewelry, crystal, to which the same groups of women go from one to the other; yard or rummage sales; baked goods sales; bingo; suds in the afternoon; bowling; tours of the local five and ten cent (used to be, in the dark ages) stores; walks to and from the ocean, mostly in good weather; organization meetings; church suppers; and, of course, bingo. While all these exciting activities may be great for some, most of them cost money for participation, and may be unavailable and impossible to those who are housebound for a variety of reasons. So. what to do? START TO DRAW! But. you say, I can't draw a straight line. When I first started in art school, I had the clammiest palms and tremblingest fingers of the whole class. But gradually I perservered and became deeply engrossed in my "creations." In time, to my delight. I went from "dummy's retreat" up to the second floor, to work in oils on canvas, and couldn't wait for each class to begin. You can draw! Even though you never had a lesson or an inclination before. Sketching is the most absorbing activity, especially for someone living alone or confined to a wheel chair. ALL YOU NEED are an unlined tablet, preferably spiral-backed, a soft lead pencil (or two or three, if you'd like variety) and a soft gum eraser, and you're in business. Decide what you'd like to draw, something simple in the room, some fruit on a piece of cloth to make it look arty, on a flat surface. Pick a spot on which the light shines, either from the sun or from an electric light so that a little shadow shows. Set up your subject at the same spot each time you work, so that the light shines on the same area, so that the angle will remain unchanged. Look at your object, remembering that things must be in proportion. If you have fruit, a grapefruit must be larger than an orange, a lemon smaller still. (Don't use grapes at first, until you become accustomed to drawing. > The simpler the objects you select the better. SIT RELAXED in a comfortable chair, pencil(s) sharpened, eraser handy, open sketch book lying on the table or. if that isn't possible, firmly on your lap. and BEGIN. All right, so your fingers are stiff and it is difficult to hold a pencil. So much the better , you can be freer in your (Page 63 Please)

"Confessions of a Stone Former =i

Check Your Oxalate Lately?

By JOE ZELNIK As the world knows. I passed a small kidney stone in July On a pain level, that was roughly 10 times worse than the appendicitis attack I still remember from my pre-teen years Thinking positive, this gave me an opportunity to test first-hand the Middle Township Rescue .Squad and the Burdette Tomlin emergency room. Both, like my stone, passed with flying colors. Fate, however, sent me to a urologist determined to find its cause and prevent future stones, no matter what it costs me or Blue Cross-Blue Shield. FIRST. OF COURSE, was an x-ray confirming that no more of the little devils lurk in my kidneys. The doctor in charge confided that he'd passed a stone years ago and never had a follow-up test. That comment, plus a news release from the Mid-Atlantic Kidney Stone Center that stated "the exact cause of kidney stone formation is still a mystery" gave me pause. I would have chucked further investigation but for my doctor's warning that stones frequently reoccur and I might not be as lucky next time. So. despite.the innate skepticism of one too long in this profession. I submitted to a handful of blood and urine tests. FINALLY, LAST WEEK. D-day: The doctor had accumulated reams of results and was ready to confide in me. The composition of the stone (which I had obediently turned in rather than having it polished and hung from a necklace) plus a 24-hour urine sample left no doubt I had formed an oxalate stone. The conservative approach, then, was to stop eating things that form oxalate. I was told to head to the Burdette dietary department for a consultation. I made an appointment for that afternoon and settled down to my brownbag lunch: a peanut butter sandwich, chocolate-nut dessert, and grapes. ' CLUTCHING A NOTE identifying me as an "oxalate stone former," I then went to the dietician whose list of for-

bidden foods included: peanut butter, chocolate, nuts and grapes Now I am a sensible person who has always felt that there is nothing more foolish than ignoring medical advice to abstain from such things as cigarettes or booze or whatever. Imagine my shock to find that Burdette's low oxalate diet list of "foods to avoid" included beer, wine, and chocolate. Perhaps worst of all. almost causing a relapse, was the discovery that I should be allowed only one-quarter cup of orange juice, my favorite beverage. UPON CLOSER reading. I noted that a key to low oxalate is a reduction of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Guess what yours truly pops each morning: a one-a-day vitamin that, all by itself, contains 100 percent of the U.S. recommended daily allowance of C, plus two 500-miIligram tablets, each containing 830 percent of the recommended allowance. With the enthusiasm of an archaeologist who had discovered the burial place of King Nummy. the dietician dug into her most recent nutrition textbook and found that "large doses of vitamin C taken regularly result in potential oxalate stones." A SLAVE TO the pro-C advice of Linus Pauling. I am probably the world's major consumer of ascorbic acid There is probably one one thing I use more: hair spray. Upon further consideration, the dietician and I found significant differences between the low oxalate lists of Burdette and the recent textbook. "Not everything is carved in stone." advised the dietician with unintentional wit. I DECIDED to follow the intelligent course of action: use the parts of each list that accommodate the diet I prefer. Burdette said no beer, for example; the textbook said no draft beer, but bottled beer is okay I'll follow the latter About one thing, both lists appeared to agree: Drink lots of milk because "a high intake of calcium binds oxalate." On the other hand, both also warned that too much calcium can cause — calcium stones. Isn't this where we came in?