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Show r WEEKLY REFLEX-DA- NEWS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 28, 1980 NORTH DAVIS LEADER, FEBRUARY 28, 1980 VIS RHYME & REASON High Time IrtoMsmiiwg Mm JLffiGDQDir By FLORENCE BITTNER IT probably time I voiced my stand on women's liberation. Im all for it. Recently at a rally for women's lib, there were some placards which voiced sentiments which I support. Housewives are unpaid slave labor." BOY, DO we slave, and does anyone appreciate it? We get lots of complaints about what we don't do, but docs anyone notice what we do? One day someone in my house is going to say "Gcc, Mom. this blouse smells nice." and no matter what I put in the wash. 1 shall take full credit, but I'm not holding my breath. "Women work non-unio- Do we ever! The minute our feet hit the floor we're on the job. At least theres no problem of portal to portal pay. but sometimes we get in trouble for sleeping on the job. long time labor- - management complaints. It is stated specifically in my contract I get an afternoon nap, and when did I get the last one? I plan to take naps, but intentions don't count. That is a fringe benefit I'd like to have delivered, and maybe with some retroactive naps thrown of fringe benefits or job hazards. I guess it depends on the family we marry into. At any rate, there doesn't seem to be a lot we can do about employee relations on this job. HOUSEWIVES have no fringe benefits." Well, now, that's not always true. There's other. THERE ARE a few other little defects in the main product of this housewife and mother . business which need the attention of whoever is in charge of production and quality control. If babies would just come with dry noses and not cry af--' ter dark and if someone could do something about the ten 766-- 1 Today's energy-savin- g sug- gestions from the U.S. Department of Energy cost less than $5. Together, they can save $20 to $30 per year in homes with gas water heaters, and $4$ to $70 with electric heaters. THESE SAVINGS are based on costs of five cents per kilowatt hour for electricity and 37 cents per therm for gas. A good way to save money is to add an extra layer of insulation around the outside of the water heater tank to cut heat loss. This should save $20 a year for electric water heaters, and about $10 a year for gas. You can buy enough regular insulation and tape to do this job for less than $3. in. "Washing diapers isnt fulfilling." No one can argue with that. Its been a while since I washed a diaper, but I can say without any hesitation that I never found any fulfillment in washing diapers. Fulfillment in babies, yes; in their diapers, no. But the one does sort of seem to be a of the PHONE relations we acquire with marriage come under the heading naps which might one day BE LATE A LITTLE their husband's jobs. We do? I mean, yes, we do. materialize, We don't have unemployment insurance, but I don't know any unemployed housewives. I know a lew retired ones and some who just plain abandoned the position for more fulfilling work, but unemployment is not a problem for housewives. Sick benefits? Who has time to be sick? Even when I give up and go to bed, my employers save all the little jobs for, me. They wouldn't want me to feel unwanted, now, would they? Every night w hen they come home all beat because they were mean to him out there in the cold cruel world while housewives have spent their (fay slaving at unpaid jobs in the quiet security of four walls he provided, we can realize again how unfair it all is. THE PROBLEM with women's work, say the proponents of women's liberation, is that women aren't appreciated in their own jobs and they have 870 WRAP THE insulation so that it completely encircles the tank and also covers the top. It goes around the tank like gift the wrapping on a package shiny foil on the outside. Seal the seams with duct tape. A circle can be cut for the top and attached to the insulation on the sides of the tank with tape. Cover all exposed surfaces' 773-- 5! 00 TO INCREASE the savings even further, use a cold water detergent, and wash and rinse with cold water. You may be well satisfied with the cleaning results. ON GAS water heaters, a .crucial warning must be heeded: Do not cover air in- lets, pipes, controls, relief valves, or the flue at the top of the heater. If you are unsure about the various crucial openings on gas.and oil water heaters, you can buy a manufactured insulation jacket kit with holes precut for the critical areas. Meeting of Minds Two mind readers met on the street. "Youre fine." said one. greeting the other, "and how am I?" IT IS also important that the insulation be affixed to the tank so that it can't slip and cover the openings later. A mistake here could cause a fire or even an explosion. A switch to a lower temperature on the washing machine can have a major impact on utility bills. It takes about 35 gallons of water to do a full wash and rinse, or about 17 gallons for each cycle. How much of that water is hot depends on which button you push. A HOT wash and warm rinse combination, the highest setting on most machines, requires 25 gallons of hot water. A load a day on such a setting, Success At Last! John Hows your wife getting along with her reducing diet? Jim my fears. Authorized dealer of both Eureka and Hoover Sales and Service All Vacuum Repair. s, And yet the new grass covers winters theft Where searing frost broke continuity. And cleansing sunshine burns out all alloy; Id . THE SCORE sheet on alcohol and pregnant mothers is problems are caused by heavy-drinkin- drome. In addition to mental retardation. heavy use of alcohol is producing babies who arc se- with riously malformed shortened features, a pugnaciouface and eyes s-looking too close together. DOCTOR AFTER doctor and study after study, in recent years, have sounded warnings. More and more are now convinced that babies of smoking and drinking mothers often never catch up in health and mental ability with offsprings of and non-smoki- non- drinking mothers. Some are fatally uffcctcd. before birth. 1 Im bereft. Renew self-fait- h, repair inadequacy; Oh, spring, wait, just till I can bear your joy. Mabel Jones Gabbolt AUTOMOBILES HOMES "ART IF IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER CARS STORM DOORS & TRUCKS Cubes and plastic cylinders as art Leave me cold. So does the greater part Of Modems: splashes, daubs and cubiforms. I like a landscape following the Norms Of fair tradition. If I must seek too hard. 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There will be a slight charge otherwise. Registration may be picked up the night of the particular class. house less than Is your THE DANGER SIGNALS BACK PAIN BACKACHE BACK STIFFNESS NECK PAIN NECK ACHE NECK STIFFNESS HEAD PAIN You may qualify for real savings on your home insurance with Farmers New Homes discount, ranging from 2 for a house seven year-old 12 for a home to a big this constructed year. -- ARM PAIN LEG PAIN DR. W. RICHARD BARTON eight years old? And you can add another sizeable discount if you and your family don't smoke. Talk to your friendly Farmers Agent today and AUTO ACCIDENT? ON THE JOB INJURY? see how much money you can save. CALLTODAV 376-34)9MEDICAL, HEALTH DIXON REISBECK 5 and ACCIDENT INSURANCE ACCEPTED! 376-427- 9 197 North Mam, Layton IF that old savings plan of yours isn't doing the job... Come see us. We'll set up a plan for you whereby we automatically deposit a specified sum from your paycheck into your savings account. Before you know it, you'll have a nice size nestegg! THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Phone gum 0 NSURANC AYSV HD auto I 376-424- 1 THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK Famere Instance Cnxqj f IRE LIFE COMMERCIAL g mothers. There s now a medical term for this threat, so common has it befetal alcohol syncome Perhaps the spring will heal where She disappeared completely for electric water heaters, could easily cost $100 a year. Changing the rinse water to cold, which experts say does not affect the results of the wash, will save eight of those, gallons per day. or $25 a year. 27 South Main, Layton. Utah Rather well. DOCTORS WHO met recently at the I4(th gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco agreed heavy smoking was causing many stillbirths, spontaneous abortion. and about one third of today's premature births. Further, babies of smoking mothers who don't suffer a worse fate are usually smaller, grow slower and more susceptible to disease than babies or born from women who stop smoking when pregnant. Meadowlark, By changing the wash setting from hot to warm, you could save another $25. If you have a gas water heater, the savings would be $10 a year for each strategy. of the tank, except for certain critical areas that must be left free to "breathe." On electric water heaters it is best not to cover the drain faucet, the thermostat access panel, or the .relief valve that comes out of the top of the tank. age should pay careful attenshows that pregnant tion to women who smoke and drink often damage their unborn's and future health. health To grieve my broken dream, to 6tay ding a good thing. But I still intend to be liberated. Any day now. to live vicariously through child-bearin- g Too much of hurt in me would seek the dark, Would hide a little longer all my tears, Would turn from spring, from song of END HUMAN sacrifice; don't get married." All right! Only I haven't quite figured out just who is going to be sacrificed if no one gets married any more. I have a suspicion maybe marriage is women's idea and we just might be en- equally dreadful. About one third of all babies born in the U.S. with mental retardation The latest evidence which women of Let spring le late this year; let it delay Ita coming, ita singing, surging throb, its heady Creening under, over. . . just one more day Be late. Tomorrow, maybe Ill be ready. $5 HI (Ed You $20 HICH BRINGS up one of my "Housewives have poor employee relations." I've complained about that quite a lot. but complaining doesnt seem to get me rich relations. I haven't decided whether the the matter of the promised n hours." W dency they have to grow up and become teenagers, we could go back to the baby producing business and be really fulfilled. Smoking Hurts The Unborn Phone 376-125- 1 . Layton, Utah Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 4 |