Show STANDARD-EXAMINE- BRIDES R SUNDAY AUG 5 1990 FEATURES EDITOR: 0 625-427- Siil Standard-Examin- $N i er columnist ?T Reading J0 ' - - v - -- - - Vs 1 " £ '' ' - VV0: - ' - VH M - : 1 - ' t ' - Jf U t-- fct i ? ? ' n'Y: 1 t 4Jl 4 ?: 'eyJ ?J '''if j$ tSiL-j- h j £“' -s f V'A7) i£ J? ‘T riv v "air 4' VKSrJrv rc ! - X ££ s :U ' ‘ - v- - y jv—- 4‘ - ' 'f i fW‘-- v V 15V f mr I Vx ! finally called one of those numbers in the classified ads the ones offering to show you incred- - j ible unbelievable schemes for ' making or saving money You know ihe ones: “Earn extra $$$ i ' in your spare time licking enve- - j i lopes” “Government jobs sala- i no million several ries to experience necessary" Or my fa- vorite “Can you really buy Jeeps for $20 from the government?”: (Perhaps But it’s going to cost’ you at least that much just I I : to-fin- out) I’d never paid much ’ f career doesn’t add up vh i T'-v-'- attention to these ads until somebodypointed out one that ran in the paper recently “Book readers needed” the ad began “$32000 yearly potential: reviewing manuscripts for pub- Ushers and studios Recorded message reveals amazing details” It was followed by a phone num- ber I made the call The details were truly amazing A salesman came on and in his best deejay voice explained all about the exciting yiwif j4 - i i j I ed mmlM and Photo illustrations by Anne RaupStantiard'&xaminer ' t profitable world of reading” That’s right It seems publishers book clubs and film studios are more than willing to pay tipi wards of $ 00 or mbre to peoplewho will read a manuscript and give their honest opinion of the subject matter For a mere $1995 (plus $550 shipping and handling) this com- pany will send the new block! buster book “How to Stay Home and Get Paid $100 or More for Every Book You Read” The ba- sic idea is reada manuscript write a short appraisal and $100 is yours Read five books the re-- ! cording said and earn $500 r Read 25 books earn $2500 The more you read the more you ! make It’s that easy So apparently while you’ve’ been wasting your time thumbing! “free-lanc- Umiw e I J - 1 ' is j I j J j 1 j - Disposable diapers material) has rapidly become Public EneFifteen months ago when Kelsey No The my prevailing feeling today is Krause was born her mother had overy that the ecolojgical fate of the planet rests intention of using cloth diapers even goupon our choice of materials to cover bai bottom ing so far as to buy a big plastic diaper by’s pail A single parent Kim Krauso delivDisposable diapers Environmental Ar- ered Kelsey by Caesarean section Eight mageddon? These diapers which 'critics contend days later Krause was back at work dishould actually be called “single-us- e diarecting the affairs of the bar she owns in Roy the Rainbow Saloon By MARK SAAL pers” to avoid the perception that they staff “I was going to use cloth diapers at can- be easily disposed of have become a home and disposables away from home” In the ’50s it was communism: blamed symbol of our environmental problems Krause said “I thought ‘It can’t be that for everything from moral decay' to tooth iDuring the past year disposables have t hard’ But it was” environmental was for ’60s In the Beatles countless and it blamed been the ' decay i Between working full time and taking their insidious brand of music Through- 'infractions including:’ Earthls she culand renewable other various ’80s ’70s and out the Devouring the ation of Diaper Services and aU the othehVi 9f-- child Kusf Now to no time Disco Video Iran resotiroesJ were out rhad diapers singled prits Clogging up the country’s already-taxe- d agencies companies and associations who daughter wears nothing but disposables games Each time critics wrung their ' spend a' great deal qf their time wrestling and mqmadmits she feels guilty about it landfills hands and decried the current topic as like I’m chastis- “I really do feel like with the a for discarded human the beginning of the end of life as we way Providing diaper isi vi“I’m not stu- said Krause — Earth” the sue! and its accompanying irig excrement know it ze her now will on And today here in the' ’90s we have ruses and bacteria — — to leach into the diaper What do the real experts have to say? : ' ere er the disposable diaper wen is groundwater The ones who dispense with all the labo- raised the specOne cloth diaper-makThe current distinction of Corruptor of conscience ease her to Krause manages ratoty research studies and theories and Everything We Hold Sacred goes to a line ter of disposables being potentially life-- : instead put the question to practical ap- - somewhat It’s a matter of priorities she ' of products with innocuous-soundin- g threatening to your infant with printed says: “What’s more important doing names like Huggies and Pampers and statements like: “Diapering your baby plication? or spending time with my daugh- Here are two moms who chose oppos- - laundry v Luvs Hard to believe but a thin sheath-o- with disposables is hot a& safe as the 9 krause says she also hated the idea of plastic filled with either wood pulp or manufacturers would have you believe” ing methods of diapering and some of See DIAPERS on 6E their reasoning: See MOTHERS on 6E something called AGM (absorbent gelling Diaper debate being blown out of proportion Standard-Examine- 1 5 ? r - ? non-renewab- le' er er - f uUM W i '1 l r j: - V-- nf‘ tf J ' ! -- T ' - j vwf - ta $& f x i v ' rv'a ' ' f :r idP jt ? i real money reading the latest vqr-- j sion of The Great American Novel Well I hate to be the one io! bring this up but I did a little 1 uring on this salary thing The ad i says “$32000 yearly potential”: so if you’re figuring an average of $100 per manuscript we’re! talking about reading 320 a year! Meaning if you were to work 9- to-- 5 Monday through Friday for a year you’d have to read an en- - i fife-- tire manuscript — and ) ' write-a- “book report” on it — every 6'?! hours (if you wanted to take! Christmas Memorial and Labor Day off you’d have to shave aU most five minutes off that time): As one observer put it: : “They’d better be darn good books” f t 1 And let’s say you just wanted! to make a modest salary — say! a year? You’re still eighteen-fiv- e almost at four manu- looking scripts a week Evelyn Wood herself would have a hard time at that pace Just think of it Before long!' you too could take what wasionce just a leisurely highly en-- I joyable pastime and turn it into a j rewarding and lucrative business with all the inherent drudgery of e a job So go on what have you got-tlose? OK besides $1995 pfics shipping and handling? But you should only do thisv! the recorded voice advises nf you’re a good reader and have a great love of books j Or if you have a system I just happen to have a system And for a mere $2995 I’ll let’ No no you in on this little Just funnin’ with you I’ll tell you! how to do it for free (because! that’s the kind of guy I am) You just have to approach it the way my friends and I read textbooks in college Back their when some professor would give! us an assignment to read a 750- page biology text we didn’t actu- ally read the book Instead wlT used The System: See SAAL on 5E! J J J a fvs qj - !! it i 7 ! r :if : Jf J V 'S Erin N CalmesStandard-Examme- r '7 ' ? X: J through this newspaper you! could have been earning sortie full-tim- ' '7 j 1 V ' 1 ' " 1 Sheri has three children in diapers says using diaper service not a!' that different from disposables However Kim Krause owner of the Rainbow Saloon in Roy would rather spend time with Kelsey than do laundry after work At left Lorraine Brown who ' JacobsStaridard-txamme- r ! : : |