| Show r- r A Take the grain n of salt quiz and wait for Ed Ed r s McMahon and the hermetically sealed answer Gloria Quick Columnist HE first baby came nearly nine months to the THE day after the wedding The Spouses have two children now The chubby sandy-haired sandy toddler who just began walking somehow manages to look looka a little like his haired dark-haired sister who belts out Im a little tea pot while carefully pointing her right toe hidden inside a pink ballet slipper Choosing to go right back to work six weeks after each birth was tough but Ronald and Julie knew the day they decided to marry that each would pursue a career The decision stood the test of time tim time over over e-over over four years See if you can guess which career Julie chose and which one Ronald fill fills Well We'll call them Spouse Orange and Spouse Green As a computer programmer and systems analyst Spouse Green helps develop software packages Spouse Orange uses com computers too Orange is an accountant One spouse earns annually the other Not huge incomes but profit sharing and other benefits are great And at 26 years of age the future looks promising for the Spouse family Still per month house payment plus two healthy car loans and child care expenses creates a tight budget Can you tell who's who yet No Watch for clue 1 Spouse Green provides the children meals laundry whatever laundry whatever is needed Nobody ever said so but both spouses assume that Green will either watch the children or arrange for child care at all times Since neither spouse likes domestic work they hired a cleaning service At per service they only use it once monthly Spouse Orange began helping Green with the housework when they moved into the new house Orange vacuums the entire house every Saturday morning before golf golf- ing Yard work used to take three hours weekly Now a lawn care service handles weed and nd pest control and the grass never looked better A neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor boy mows the lawn in summer and shovels winter snow The Spouses wish their income were larger so more domestic help could be hired Spouse Green spends one full day each weekend running errands and doing chores Orange helps cook cook cook-at at least two meals a week People often comment about how lucky Green is tobe to tobe tobe be married to Orange How many people can say that his her spouse does his her own laundry they ask People never say Its wonderful that Green does laundry Nobody thinks twice about the fact that Green cooks meals every day Orange draws around a around around round of applause for preparing two meals weekly Why is that Perhaps Orange earns the greater salary alary Maybe that additional 1400 per year makes up for all the extra chores Green does Probably everyone knows about the Y higher salary Orange earns That must be why they p think its it's so wonderful that Orange watches the kids every Wednesday evening evening evening eve eve- ning while Green takes a work-related work computer computer computer com com- puter class What other reason could there be Only one of the following statements is true 1 The above information doesn't give a clue as asto asto asto to which spouse is Julie and which is Ronald 2 Spouse Green is Julie Spouse Orange is Ronald Suppose Ed McMahon would hand-deliver hand one million dollars to you to-you you if you could correctly guess which statement were true Based on the above information would you choose statement number number number num num- ber one or statement number two For the answer read A Grain o of f Salt next week |
