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Show Tooele Transcript, Friday, April 2S, 197S Jus Talkin br Mm gat d I U- The world is finally recognizing alcohol as a disease and treating alcoholics with sympathy and understanding. They even feel pity for the I wish they would go one step further and admit what I and SO million other overweights have alwavs known: Food is just as adictmg as al cohol. Worse, in fact, since we can get along without alcohol, Imt we cant get along without food. I don t know what your overweight problem is, Imt mine is somewhat different from many of those who have up and down the weight scale since the focus of adulation turned from those of us who are "voluptuous" to those of you who are "lmey". I am addicted to just one fat producing gixxlv. NOW TIIVT Hetty Ford has come forward to disclose her secret, I can also confess: I am a white cakeahohc." Its really not funny. You see, if 1 never take the first liite. I'm OK, Imt one forbidden taste and I am off on a lunge that is apt to reach monumental proportions (mine). Its results are devastating. c It's so easy for a to sav, "Just stop eating. It's just a matter of self control." believe me, we addicts can tell you it's not. If only I lived in a world where there was no white cake, I could make it, Imt danger and temptation are everywhere. My first fatal error comes in just going into a store that has a bakerv. Once I stand a white cake, all kindly advice, religious training, logical argument (Why let a little thing like a white cake ruin your life?) fades out of my consciousness. A STRONG lming takes over mv ears, mv nose twitches, my hands tremble. As mv eyes lock on the cake, it grows larger and larger like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland and completely takes over mv soul. work-aholi- d nou-ohoh- Dont go into the bakerv section, you sav. Aha! That shows how little von know alxmt oholics. You see. at the li.uk of the brain of every oholic there is a phrase - dex-ndmon his weakness indelibly imprinted which lies dormant much of the time but is there - nevertheless. In my case the phrase says, WHITE CAKE. The cunning oholic in me has all sorts of strategies to bring it to the fore - to cause it to light up my consciousness like a neon sign. AS A WHITE cakeohohc, I do all sorts of strange things. Sometimes after mouths "on the wagon" I feel so proud of myself, I divide to reward myself with (you guessed it). , . a piece of white cake. Or I may Ik in the supermarket with no thought of white cake in my head at all. Suddenlv I get a clever idea. I dehlmratelv force myself to walk by the bakery department, a thin cold smile of disdain on my face, just to prove to myself how strong I really am ... It never works. Sometimes mornings find me pacing the floor, biting mv nails waiting for the lukerv to ox-n- , When it dHs, 1 rush alxiut looking at evervthing else. THEN I casually drop by the bakery department and just happen to pit k up a white cake, fooling iiolxxlv. Sometimes I can't even wait to get out to the parking lot with my pri.e, and have lieen known to use all sorts of improvisations for a knife to cut the cake. being a cakeoholic poses problems for my whole family - esKcially my husband. He has tried to help me but in vain. Teasing, threatening, ultimatums never seem to work, but he hasnt given up. When the weakness is on me, I try to keep him from catching on that I have lieen at it again." I have found all sorts of hiding places, but it isn't easy. He didn't get the name "Dick for nothing. Tracv" from his ON MONDAY I hid the cake in the chandelier, but forgot and turned the light on. Tuesday he caught me (with a mustache of frosting) spiceed the lied and the wall. Wednesday, I hurried to get the whole cake eaten early, but just as I was raising a big bite to mv mouth, he drove into the yard. I whipped out the back door and dived under the hammock, hoping the cat would finish off the crumlis. TlIl'HSDAY, I hid the cake in the laundry basket. On Friday I suspended it from the draft inside the chimney. A cold front Ie-twe- tell-tal- e moved in. Saturday he came home with a familiar lxx from the bakery and announced, I felt so sorry for you, Ive brought you a present. lie was hurt when 1 turned pale, clutched mv tumniv and dashed for the bathroom. I couldn't tell him there was a half eaten cake liehind the loose bricks in the fireplace. What did I tell you about that sneaky oholic inside me? Writing this column has dont it again. Im off to the bakery. Former Tooelean Authors Childrens Book Thomas Macaluso, formerly of Tooauthored a childrens summer activity lxxik. Macaluso is a learning Disabilities DisSpecialist in the Union trict of San Jose, California and a 1963 graduate of Tooele I ligh. HE RECEIVED his RA from Utah State University in 1968 with a composite major in Child Development and Elementary Education. He has done graduate work at San Jose State University and the University of Santa Clara. In 1977 he received a Learning Socialist for the Handicapped creele, has dential. For seven years he was a classroom teacher, instructing first and second graders. During the last three years he has worked with Learning Disabled students in grades 1 through 6. THROUGH HIS experience in teaching, he has found that the key to Mastery learning in Repetition. The more exposure a child has with an activity, the more confident he becomes, and the more learning takes BIG place, Macaluso said. He has recognized a need for children to maintain their academic skills from the close of one school year to the beginning of the next school year. He authored this activities workbook to fill the need and it has proven so successful that he currently is marketing the worklxxik on a nationwide basis. booklet of activities, while for fun, has proven to be of great geared help in learning common, everyday words that are part of a childs school oral and written vocabulary. Parents and teachers are currently using this activities worklxxik to enhance a childs independent work skills. Activities" Visual Closure The workbook can be obtained only through the author by sending $4 plus $1 postage to Thomas Macaluso, Learning Specialist, 6052 Burchell Ave., San Jose, Calif. 95120. This There the road. is no road to A. J. Muste peace, peace is 8x10 LIVING COLOR PORTRAIT Melissa Jean Maddox was bom April 18 at the Tooele Valley Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds and was 20 inches long. Parents are Gary and Angie of Grantsville. 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