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Show OT Page 18—THE HERALD. Provo. Utah, Tuesday, January 1, 1980 Holiday Trade-Offs By RENEE C. NELSON Herald Women’s Editor The rewards that come with being a working woman are wide and varied. But there are also tradeoffs. Some of these trade-offs become particularly visible during the holidays. And it all revolves around time. Time becomes your enemy. You would like to be clever and appreciated at Christmas-time like your friends, and make some of your gifts. But unfortunately you just thought about this in November and then there wasn't time. So you decide instead to get something special for special friends even if you have to shopall over town. But with only five evenings a week and a few hours on Saturday (after you steep in late and drop in at the cltice) you just don't have time. you buy something on impulse that you are not even sure they want. You would like to throw an open house and invite friends and neighbors — make25 different kinds of cookies and exotic punch and set your table with Irish linen and a creative self-designed centerpiece. But you don’t have time. You would like to have the family Christmas party at your home this year. But your mother does it ‘You wouid be willing to shop in all the men's stores in the valley to find just the tie your husband designated as “‘the only thing I want for Christmas.” “T would like a brown wool knit tie exactly like what number one son took off with when he married,”’ the husband says. A normal wife should be able to honor such a request. But who is normal this time of year? Certainly not the working woman. Where de you get wool anymore? And where you get dark brown? And who, besides him, ever wants knit? So you compromise. You get brown silk with a slight stripe and spend all Christmas day trying to convince him this is what he really wanted. But what is really sad is New Year's Eve. Traditionally this has been the one night a year when hope rang eternal that a New Year's ty would be held at the Nelson much better — flowers, linens, crystal, hostess gown — all a medley of beauty and coordination. And evenif you could do it this well, you don’t have time. jouse. But you haven't had time. This year, like several previous ContemporaryLiving: School Hang-Ups By LETITIA (TISH) BALDRIGE Dear Mrs. Baldrige: There's a girl who keeps calling me. She dees it all the time. I don't really like her and I manage to escape from her in school. Mom and DaysayI haveto date her once, that it’s the only polite thing to do. I'm writing you because maybe you'll ay differently. — J.M., Tacoma do. You don't have to take out a girl who keeps calling you, just as a giri doesn't have to go out with a boy who thank hus parents with a letter. | wrote It would be nice, however, if you're one, just a smallpar; , and when | Sa o perty ith Sots of intent, to read it aloud it ity gross. include her. If this should give her too Mom says you'd have some ideas for much encouragement, you'll have to “- = — ML., Sacramento. bite the bullet” and tel! ber as nicely as you had given me some more you can that you're not going to ask her details of your evening, 1 could have out because you don’t want te. helped you more.I'll write a letter for Dear Mrs. Baldrige: I'm an eighth- you — letter about a grader and I wasinvited by a boy in my evening — and you can use it as a guide class to go to dinner in a restaurant and to write something in your own words. I a movie with him apd his parents. don't know your school’s eighth-grade It was fun and Mom says I have to lingo, so it will sound pretty funny to you. I really want to thank you, Mr. Smith and Jimmy for meto dinner and & movie the other . The restaurant was great. They served the best hamburger I've ever Last four days. years, you took your party elsewhere. No longer are many friends warmed by your wit and humor, inspired by your hospitality, and cheered by yourjoviality. But maybe they weren’t an: It was probablyall just a a wish that you could be perfect during the holiday season — like everyone else seemed to be. Once-a-winter Event 20% Off all our bras and girdles. That'sgreatfiguring at JCPenney! Stock up nowon fashionable Prince Matchabelli and functional foundations and save! Bra selection includes cross-over, contour, natural seamless and full-figure styles. In comfortable fabrics like nylon tricot, poly/spandexand stretch nylon lace. 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