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Show A Man may work from Sun to Sun Buta Woman's Work is never done PAROWAN - I think I've made an improtant scientific scien-tific discovery - I've found out the answer to a question that has puzzeled the experts since time began. I've just figured out why women usually live longer than men. You know how exercise is supposed to prolong one's life? Well, who is it in the family who never gets time to sit down, and who is it that is the last one on her feet at night, and also the one who gets up in the night for any .. floor walking with babies or tending sick kids. "Right", it's the lady of the house "good old Mom". No offense men but you know where you were during all those football foot-ball games last week. All this talk of womens liberation hasn't changed the old addage man he works from sun to sun but women's work is never done. I wonder who wrote that, it's beautiful, it's so sad. Anyway from the marriage vows through the first baby's cry to the home for the aged we ladies do the leg work, and also the stoop, bend and stretch stuff. From the moment we get up in the mornings our kids, our husbands and our con-ciences con-ciences keep us moving. We wash dishes in a cycle, they are never quite done. The same is true with washing clothes. Babies, toddlers and teen agers go through mountains of clothes every day and the older kids can make you feel like a failure if their favorite T-Shirt isn't clean when they want it. Floors will not stay vacummed, beds don't stay made, sinks and tubs develop rings by the hour, socks and odd keds work their way out into the middle of the floors. Dust carefully removed in the morning may reappear at night, lint balls gather from somewhere and join with the cardboard boxes and shoes under the beds. Little hand prints and masterpieces in crayon turn , up on walls behind chairs and - near - doorways. "And some husbands have been known to leave a trail of newspapers, socks, and football magazines. Everyone keeps eating 3 meals and 27 snacks a day. So you work for two hours after everyone else is snuggled in bed, then sleep in a half hour after hubby gets up and he says "Boy, I sure wish I could get as much sleep as you do." Ladies of the house also mow an occasional lawn, help care for gardens and then single handedly stuff all the harvest into bottles. They do all the shopping, the chauffering kids around, joining PTA, cleaning out the car. He might do the outside but you'll be stuck with vacumming the inside. Well, I could go on and on but I've got work to do. I don't know if it's going to be worth it to live the longest, I'll probably have to do so much work in the home for the aged I still won't get to try out the rocking chair. |