Show 8 A Saturday April 20 1931 Standard-Examine- r FAMILY CIRCUS Drabble By BIL KEANE ‘Maternity clothes a problem for overweight mother-to-b- e DEAR ABBY: I am married have two young children and am 4V: months pregnant I also weigh 270 pounds The problem (be- -' sides my weight) is that I can’t find any maternity clothes to fit me! Are fat women not allowed to get pregnant? Do designers feel that fat women who become pregnant don’t deserve maternity DEAR ABBY: Five months son died He ago our was active in sports had a keen interest in electronics and never had any problems with drugs or A few months before he alcohol Abigail Van Bum I had that “parent to teendied Ur fsa Specatt ager" talk with him about drugs sex alcohol abuse and just about would be bom on that day I have looked through all of anything else I could think of clothes? You can only imagine how old children’s books and have we were when we disWhat am I supposed to do for my surprised not been able to find it Would 'maternity clothes Abby? Also you or perhaps one of your read- covered that he had been inhalI’d love to name my baby Abigail ing Freon an inert gas used in ers happen to know it? after you if it’s a girl — but my refrigeration! As a parent I was It is very frustrating to be unhusband won’t let me not prepared to warn my son ' UNCLOTHED able to recall something you once about the dangers of inhalants I AND PREGNANT knew so well I was born in 902 had no knowledge of them myand taught school in a self DEAR UNCLOTHED: Find a schoolhouse in Kentucky 1 prefer According to the coroner who person who can make something not to sign my name so please did the autopsy this kind of for you to wear A man or wom-h- n sign this death among teenagers is not that who sews professionally will FORGETFUL uncommon — you just don’t be the answer to your prayers Inas of it much because it’s FORGETFUL: The hear DEAR poquire at your local fabric shop if em is titled “Monday’s Child” usually not in the newspapers such don’t know a you person Most aerosols have warnings statis: i Sorry your husband won’t let and here it face that “unexpected” death may fair is of child ing Monday’s you name your baby after me occur so no matter how many Tuesday’s child is full of grace Since “Abigail” was good enough Wednesday’s child is full of times you try something the next for the Old Testament it should time may be your last As smart woe be good enough for your husas he was we could not believe far to child has go Thursday’s band Friday’s child is loving and he would do something so stupid I hope that you print this letgiving DEAR ABBY: When I was a not only so that other teenagter work child has to Saturday’s ers will see it but with the hope vlery young girl many many for its living years ago I knew a poem that beBut the child that is born on that parents will educate themgan “Monday’s child is fair of the Sabbath Day selves and talk to their kids face” — and it went on to name Is fair and wise and good and about it IN MEMORY every day of the week and de- gay scribed the kind of child that OF CHUCK SLIGER ' ’ VlL GET SOU e kevin fagan FlRTSOOEHTke FCQ TUft TUCK VKX) CAUSED MESOg£ ARRESTED '400 STUPID DUCK Dear Abby I s ! i 1 one-roo- m lUtYCOOlCNT DON'T KNOU) MOU) AND 1 DON'T KNOW DUEN 6UT CNE- - QVf DULMSOU LEAST EXFECT IT I'LL GET S-- 7 tW n i hme eceu IAS W EVEN Uont M by Coww Syna me “Wanna smell my breath Daddy? I just ate some peanut butter” i Peanuts Charles By m schulz i'm glad to see that you've decided to stay AFTER ALL THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN SITTING IN A FRENCH CAFE DRINKING HOME FOR A CHANGE ROOT BEER ALL NIGHT Garfield by jim davis It EVER OCCORREP GARFlFLB HA5 TO VO 0 THAT I MAV HAVE BETTER THINGrS TO PO THAN SCRATCH VO 0? VO£J? HAj HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Singer says career destroyed The Associated Press PEOPLE Lynn CUSTODY DECIDED: Coun- : try music singer Lynn Anderson says her career has been jeopardized by a child custody case that should have been settled “around the kitchen table" Anderson Anderson 43 best known for her 1970 hit “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” lost custody this week of her two children to their father her former husband Harold “Spook” Stream awarded to her former husband 111 t “I don’t know if I’ll ever have the desire to sing again My career is destroyed at this point Basically it’s at an end” she said “This should have been han- : Custody of her two children was died around the kitchen table with a family counselor and without the vicious accusations and inflammatory statements” During Thursday’s court hearing Anderson was accused of being an unfit mother and a drug user Both she and Stream admitted past cocaine use but said they no longer use drugs Stream 42 of Lake Placid NY and Anderson were divorced in 1982 after four years of marriage Stream a former Louisiana oilman has had temporary custody of the children for the past year On Thursday Anderson was granted four weeks of summer visitation with William Gray Stream 11 and Melissa “Bunny” Stream 9 plus one weekend a month during the school yfcar She will have five weeks of visitation beginning in 1992 MARVIN By TOM ARMSTRONG T DON'T KNOW T EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO TAKE DECENT BABY PICTURE OF THATj KID! WHY Calvin and Hobbes By bill watterson BRIDGE and By B JAY STEVE BECKER King Features Syndicate South dealer Both sides vulnerable NORTH king the best method of play — follows low W'est takes the queen the one that offers the best with the king but cannot stop chance to make the slam — is to South from scoring 12 tricks concash the ace of clubs at trick two sisting of six spades one heart and discard the ace of diamonds three diamonds and two clubs on it! The outcome is the same if East For practical purposes this play has the king of diamonds In that assures the slam It allows declar- event his king is caught in a vise of as the diamonds are led from er to utilize dummy’s diamonds and score three dia- dummy and again declarer mond tricks regardless of which scores three diamond tricks Of defender has the king of the suit course when South sooner or latIn the actual case South lands er draws trumps he cashes the before leading a third round the slam by leading dummy’s queen of diamonds at trick three to the queen to collect whatever and discarding a heart after East diamonds remain in dummy -9 A-- for Better or for worse By lynn johnston Then yco promise Never ID call Me NAMES EVER K KNcU) WHfTT DRD'-?MkJHflELlSNl RSMUCHOFfl Weenie AS I THOUGHT CUT YOUR WAYJ declarer can’t pull a rabbit out of a hat if there isn’t one in there but sometimes the rabbit is there and declarer doesn’t know it As a case in point consider this deal where South is in six spades and West leads a club Declarer wins with dummy’s king and leads a diamond to the ace followed by a low heart to dummy's queen East wins with the king returns a diamond and South must fail whatever he does next He cannot successfully trump two hearts in dummy and eventually goes down one Oddly enough after winning the opening club lead with the A Look In This Week’s Beetle Bailey By mort walker NEWSPAPERS v°rVh 3LONDIE By YOUNG AND DRAKE X hebe 5® CHESS QUIZ we HEBE'S OUB DIRECTOR TELLING THE WITCH POCTOB A JOKE are IN THE HEART OP THE BORNEO HE DOESN'T SEEM TO PE ENJCMNS THATS ME PUTTING OUB DIRECTOB IN M SHIRT POCKET JUNGLE By SHELBY LYMAN tI 8 7 Think those savings 5 don’t add up? 5 an average month readers can find over $20000 worth of coupons In 4 3 2 1 a b c d e t WHITE h g MATES IN 2 Hint: First “position" the knight 31CUI Z 8PN tP9PM I :uojmjos in the iStandaiu)-Examini:- r Tumbleweeds cAi‘cm& ftiFSIX O'CIOCH rum? 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