By Abigail Van Buren © 19078 hy Chicago Tidune-N.Y. News Bynd. ing. - i DEAR ABBY: My mother hasn't beer to see a doctor in ears, but she’s always complaining about headaches, ches, dizziness or a feeling of weakness. | She bu severy kind of painkiller she can get without a prescription, and if the directions say, “take two,” she takes four. She has even taken pills that were prescribed for aomeone else. (I've heard her ask friends relatives if they have any pills for pain, and could she have a few.) , How can get her to quit taking so many pills? She's not dumb. She’s a college graduate. She’s really a wonderful woman, and Id like to have her around for a few more years, LOVING DAUGHER DEAR DAUGHTER: Tell your mother that a pain is nature's way of telling her that something is wrong with the equipment. To suppress the pain and ignore the warning, Instead of going to a physician to find out what's wrong, is foolish and dangerous. _ DEAR ABBY: Iam 9 and my sister is 16 and we live on a farm with our parents. My sister is going to have a baby and she isn’t married. - Inever knew you could get this kind of service without a husband. SURPRISED IN IOWA DEAR SURPRISED: Well, you can. And that’s why it's just as important for girls your age to learn how NOT to multiply as it is to learn how to add. DEAR ABBY: I once felt that being a good samaritan was a nica way to be. However, after reading that you discourage kindnesses such as helping to carry a stranger’s luggage at airports, it opaned my eyes. So I have written a faw don'ts to follow: - 1. Don’t assist anyone having problems with their car. You are competing with tow truck drivers, AAA and - mechanics. They could ba put out of work, 2, Don't drive the elderly, sick or handicapped to hospitals or senior citizen clubs, You ara compe with transportation and cab companies. 3. Don't do hospital volunteer work, You are competing with paid hoapital personnel. - 4, Don't offer to care for children of friends, family or neighbors, You are competing with public and private nursery schools, . ; 6. Don't offer advice to anyone, regardless of how des rata they may be. You are competing with. Dear y : . Sign me... - NO MORE NICE GUY IN L.A. ‘DEAR NO MORE: Aw, c'mon, you know I don't discourags good samaritans or volunteers from doing their thing. I merely pointed out that people who make a practice of hanging around airports for folks to ip may run into trouble with the professionals. EAR ABBY: You sure missed the boat with your rééponse to the problem of the nervy couple who-always dropped in at mealtime. ‘ J would have suggested that they meet them at the door with their coats on and say, “Oh, Jim is just me out to co if Tom wants to treat you, we'd be glad to have you usl” ; Their decision will tell you a lot about your “friends”! Be tactful but firm, and beat them at thelr own game, ANOTHER COUPLE . DEAR COUPLE: A couple who would consistently drop in around dinnertime in hopes of getting a free meal would not be the kind of people { would want to join me—even if they pald their own way. oo, ' ‘DEAR ABBY: If my feelings are childish and unjustified, please let me have it. Tam dreading Mother's Day for the following reason: My only child (a daughter, now matrled) has always been very close to an aunt who has never married. I it’s lovely of my daughter to remember this aunt with a gift at Christmastime,. but when she gives her a gift on Mother’s Day with a card which says, “You've been like a mother to mo,” I resent it. ‘Fonce told rey daughter that I was hurt-to have to share that special day with someone else, and she aald, “So what? I only gave her 4 box of candy!” . ‘ Abby, it doesn't matter what the gift was, I am her mother and her hunt is not. What do you think? HURTING DEAR HURTING: Although your feelings of resent- ment are understandable, try to empathize with one who will never know the joys of nothernood; don't begradge: hor one small thrill ‘once a year.. . DEAR ABBY: First I read the lotter signed, 38 AND STILL A VIRGIN, and then the one from 60 AND STILL A VIRGIN, which moves me to suggest this epitaph for. doth; “Here lies the bones .Of Betty Jones ‘For her life held no terrors.. _A virgin born . 4 virgin died ‘ .No Hita, no runs, no errors.” . _— ae : CARL IN MURRYSVILLE, PA. _ DEAR ABBY: We were three girls brought up in a strictly Jewish home, co we never had ham, hacon or pork in our house. Now that we are all grown up and married, none of us observes the dietary customs, but our parents till do, .. . My oldest sister has a beautiful home, and when she has: mama and papa over, she serves them a dairy dinner, but she always puts a big pork roast on the table for everyone Ize, oo ° Mama and papa have never said anything, but I know they are hurt. Co | , Tonce told my sister I thought she was out of line ta put rk on the table with the folks here, and she said, “We have pork in this house, and they know it, 0 why be a hypocrite? Besides, in MY home Tl serve whatever Tlike. sn thes F : Or am t atill think my sister is wrong OF am Tt me BRONX DEAR BEA: Your sister is not only wrong, she's childish, disrespectful and mean. She's trying to show contempt for the old traditions and at the same time let mama and papa know that she’s her own bosa now and can do as ahe ) pleases, (It's true that she can, but she doesn't have to hit thém over the head with a pork roast to make her point.) - Who said the teen years are the happiest? For Abby's new booklet “What Teenagers Want to Koow, write Abbyi 182 Lashy. 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Today's Cryptoquip clue: V equals S ‘The Cryptoquip is a simple substitution cipher in which each ller und Sands for Snot ate ingle eter, short words, . e letters, wo and words using an apostrophe can give you clues to locating vowels, Solution is accormplished by trial and error. DEAR ABBY: Recently I attended a 30-year reunion of my high school graduation in a small town in California, My husband came along and Lintroduced him as Xo. 6," My former classmates treated me as though I had Jeprosy. . woe we : ‘ wey oFAbby, mot :-everybody...marries’ their high school sweethearts, and many of us have not remained in an unhappy marriage just to save face. 1 grew up in an era when it was taboo to ive with someone before marriage, and a ain to try someone out in bed. So consequently I mada four mistakes in a row. Luckily I kept looking, and I found my present husband to whom I have been married for 10 years. I've never been happier. Tm not saying that being married five times is something to be proud of.:What I am saying is, it’s nothing ta be ashamed of either. And aren’t we all entitled in this life to our own pursuit of happiness? Sign me... ; FIFTH TIME AROUND DEAR FIFTH: Isee your point, but when you introduce you husband as “No. 5,” you give tho impression that you're proud of it. |. ; ; Don't be defensive. Just introduce your huaband by his name— not his number—and you won't need an antidote for leprosy. DEAR ABBY: 1 have a boyfriend and we were kissing. Right in the middle of it he said, “Boy, you sure do kiss . as Carol or Cindy.” What would you | » but not as lo if your boyfriend compared you with other girls? JUST TURNED 12 DEAR JUST: I'd either get another boyfriend, or I'd try to improve my kissing. DEAR ABBY: With the Catholic Church becoming so liberal these past few years, can you tell me whether the church now permits its members to join the Masonic Order? Or is it the Masons who won't take Catholics? . . CURIOUS DEAR CURIOUS: The general prohibition against Catholics joining the Masonic Order remains in force under: the present law of the church. Iam told that Masons would accept Cathollca—if the Catholic Church would permit them to jola. . _ DEAR ABBY: Re SUSPICIOUS who found hidden in his _ ‘wife's cloget six beautiful sheer nightgowns which he had never seen before: This appears to be a sheer case of noegiigee! os SLEUTH Are your problems too heavy to handle alone? Let Abby help don, For a personal, pnpubliched reply, write; Abby: Box 69700, Loa Angeles, Calif, 90069, Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. DEAR ABBY: What's wrong with one of the smartest women.in town who's so convinesd she can’t pass the driver's test that she’s been driving without a license for six yeare? - ’ I try to tell her that all she has to do is read the driver's mantal, then go take a test and maybe drive around the block a few times with the exarhining officer. But she won't believe me. . * What can I do? She's a driver, but I can’t persuade her to get a license, A husband can’t turn his wife in to the ‘police, but I am tempted. . ; NO NAME, PLEASE DEAR NO NAME: The “smartest woman in town" could be the gorriest, and her husband could be the “brokest" should she become involved in an accident. So, if you can’t talk some sense into her head, ‘ack your insurance agent (or lawyer) to try. | mo CONFIDENTIAL TO NEW. 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