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Dear Mr.Whatever-Your-Name-I-If your wife is holdingdownaejob,please remember that home shouldbeaplaceofrestandrecreation,not a second workplaceForexample: 1.Don't expect her to be your business hostess unless she really enjoys it.In Europe,most business entertaining is done in restaurants and hotels.Americans would do welltofollowthatexample. 2.Find out what your wife enjoys doing for relaxation and share those activities with her.She'll be flattered and grateful. 3.Never apologize for your wife's housekeeping on the grounds that she is a "career woman."She is perfectly capable of making her own apologies if she feels it is necessary to do so.The only thing you have the right to apologize for is the housework vou didn't do. Help arrange things so the household can run without yourwifeifnecessary.And make sure she knows it For instance: 1.Take responsibility for a fair share of the daily choresanddothemwhentheyneeddoing.Don't choose the thingsyoudislikeleast-take over the chores your wife dislikesmost. 2.Train your children,especially your sons,to keepthemselvesandtheirsurroundingsneatandcleanandto help prepare their own meals.Your daughters-in-la-wil,bless you -and so will your wife. 3.Take on a fair share of the responsibility for yourchildren's health and welfare.They should be as com- fortable about discussing their problems with you as withtheirmother.Get your boss accustomed to the idea that you may have to take time off from work to stay home with a sick child or confer with your child's teacher 4.When your wife is ill with a cold or the flu,make sureshegetsbedrestifsheneedsit.You take it for grantedthatyourwifewillshareyourworries,help lift you outofdepression,applaud your victories,and serve as a sounding-boar-and critic for your ideas.Does she know she can count on you for the same kind of emotional support''Don t expect her to share your burdens and bear hers alone. If some of her early life wasn't very interesting and you'realittleboredlisteningtothesameoldstuff,be patientYourearlylifeprobablywasn't very exciting either.-Sauce for the Gander Dear Gander:Beautiful.I couldn't have done better myself. CONFIDENTIAL to Repeat It Please:Gladly.Here it is: To keep a marriage brimming With love in the loving cup Whenever you're wrong,admit it Whenever you're right,shut up. trtHal Stvi Ken tel. UCh --Tka Otrmn h faiHIM Hill,at northwitl f VfKuo. pjRHCTlr"---- VA CD 400 Picked Cwilry,After Daah In 17 Houn,Deferi 900 Mexicui 4 Amerlci.ni Hu4 Chteftaln,Surprlied Near Guer- rero,Hurriedly Fleei in Wig on, Men Oiiperaed In Battle El Puo,Mtrch cumnend of Colonel George A, Dodd,four hundred picked Amerioon eavtliTaen fall upoa VilU'e foraee it o'elock lut Wdnfd7 norning,eifhtee ' Miitrln r Ui Ia allai bom.Qtunmn.:TJ. AneHoaiu Id a battle killed 30 tnd routed the rut of (be 50b budlte and Ann the ioto the mewoa of the raoui--" tatne. Onljr four Anwrictm wer nrodndn),none Mnouilf. Villa w tmrrlod oarlj fm v...4 K 'I1A'if 1 tK the Held of battle in a tifbl wagon.One of hit Itfi U aaid U be broken,and hla Up ahat-- 5 ZEPPELII t i s r a j 7 fioufs rd trip. Ured bf a fail from ale bone, Thia latter injury my diiablo bin. Amy offiotn are euro thai tinoe the flgbt heavier Ameri&ai foreea hm oome up to anpport the fljtng oolunna,and anoUttr action nay nan followed,erf whieb nothing wea know hen tonifbt. OAVALBT KAKI BULK . DASH IK 17 HOUR!, It wai an aeroplaua aeout who ftae the flrut oliie to Dodd o( Villi'mountain lair.Kern ae a hound on (ho trail,the veteran colonel led hU men a froiUaf ride for eeenteen boura dows tbe nJUy of the Santa Hart Rivar.Tot mtlea they daibad alone,each nun proae grafter119' Harden Cron at Different Timei and Placet Drop Ninety Bombi,Sayi Official Report "Those Soldieri of Oun Some Boys,"Hti Enthusiastic Com- ment oh Troopen'Long Ride Bf ((niBfioMl Vnl Srrtiet. hla if iii JJ,t,t 'jj crtm of l'ruaaktnna Bimlini -n'iih"i titi 'n,'""n,1'ln toul I1 -""lit "'i'l'.Ui'-.I'-r.M(f ,p,tHoU In front at Ik ri'm"'ln"!1V.'"'.,ul.V'i"'ilni It --U m r...mbl. XHrl.lltlM IkU Iki,V...(ThnuUn4.or CsflllBUM SB Ptf i. ItOMKI'CK By JANE BROWN It's a day lor looking at the past not at the big events, but at the people.War veterans,heroes,villains,loving grandparents.And a lot of individuals who were all those things. We were thinking about that with Emily Dodd Warren and her mother,Mrs.Charles Dodd.They were invited,the other day,to the U.S.Military Academy at West Point in order to participate in a special Bicentennial salute to the men of the Class of 1876.To Mrs.Warren,Gen.George A.Dodd was grandfather;to Mrs.Dodd,father-in-la- In our conversations with Mrs.Warren and a look at their carefully,saved scrapbooks we discovered a man who was both distinguished professional soldier and loving and gentle grandfather. Yet,to Geronimo,Chief Joseph,the Mexicans and the many others against whom he marched so successfully,there must have been other adjectives to describe George A.Dodd..I We called it making the world safe for democracy.But what it was,was war. And in Ithaca one of the most prominent figures in the World War I effort was Gen.George A.Dodd,Retired. Dodd set about to help recruit men for the war effort, frequently making appearances on the stage of a downtown theater. In addition to the speeches he made to sell Liberty Bonds, there were dramatic appeals to the audience to outfit men local soldiers for the war. "Who will buy this man a uniform...a gun...his shoes...?" And with such appeals,many a man was outfitted right then and there with donations from the audience. Dodd also established a small training camp at Cornell University. The general and his son,Charles Dodd,liked the Finger Lakes area and chose to live in Ithaca when the general retired, He first bought a farm in Enfield,but he also maintained a house at 302 Mitchell St. The Ithaca years were really an epilogue. Soon after graduation from West Point in 1876,Dodd,a secord lieutenant,joined the "campaigns against hostile India is"(a description taken from an obituary notice published by West Point).; Among the targets of the Indian campaigns are sprinkled the names of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce in 1877; Geronimo and the Apaches in 1883 and other campaigns against the Cheyennes,the Utes,the Sioux,and the Kiowas. Dodd is largely credited with having gained military victories against these groups. He was there when Oklahoma was opened to settlers,and in Chicago during the riots of 1894. After the "West Was Won,"as Hollywood and historians like to say,he trained the famed "F"Troop,3rd Cavalr,devising a training system so effective that his men were invited to perform their precision drills throughout the northeast,includ- ing Madison Square Garden. When another war broke out in 1898,he was there wounded and left lor dead on San Juan Hill. But Dodd recovered from his wounds and was on hand in the Philippines to capture Aguinaldo's treasury. In 1916,almost 64 years old,Dodd pursued Paneho Villa across the Mexican border,traveling more than 300 miles in less than two weeks.He advanced so quickly that he left behind his food and provisions.The toll was great, however. He started out with 600 men and,through illness and by leaving patrols behind,he wound up with 200.But he managed to arrive in Guerrero with most of his horses "well preserved" (this,according to contemporary news accounts.)Villa's forces were routed and dispersed into the hills.Accounts described the Mexicans as "bewildered and panic-stricke- They resisted and were pursued for five hours in a running fight.Eventually Dodd's men drove them fleeing for their lives. One general exulted:"Some boys,these soldiers.It's a bigleatherinColonelDodd's hat." Dodd remained in Mexico until his retirement,as a general,four months later. With a scrapbook filled with clippings carefully saved by a proud wife and a chest laden with decorations,he retired to Ithaca. He is remembered by granddaughter Emily Dodd Warren, as "one of the kindest people I ever knew." Naturally he loved to ride and continued to ride around the countryside in Enfield. "He carried nonpareils -he called them buttons -in his pocket for the children he met while riding horseback,"Mrs. Warren remembers. Mrs.Warren,her mother and several other descendents of the illustrious Gen.Dodd went to West Point for a weekend early this month. The U.S.Military Academy had chosen to honor the Class of 1876 as part of its observance of the Bicentennial,and planned a special weekend for the relatives of the members of that class. Mrs.Warren says it was a busy weekend,filled with imagesofthestill-"Lon-g Gray Line,"dining at officers'mess,seeingthedrumandbuglecorps,watching a dress revue on the parade ground and,of course hearing taps. Jane Brown is the editor of the Finger Lakes Living section. 'Hate'Mail By ERMA BOMBECK I found a letter to my sister the other day that I had forgotten to mail. It just needed a little updating to send.After "The babyis..."I crossed out "toilet trained"and wrote in "gradu- ating from high school this month." And in the P.S.where I had written,"I found my first gray hair today,"I ran a line through gray and substituted "black." The rest of the letter was still current."I am on a diet as my skin does not fit me anymore.The children are rotten and I am slipping away from reality.I am going to paintthebathroomandwritetotherestofthefamilynextweek." The trouble with me is I don't like to write letters unless I have something exciting to report.I am intimidated byletterwriterswhosecorrespondenceelectrifiesyou.I have one group of friends who only write me once a year -from a cruise ship.They know it's going to make me spit up with jealousy and they write cute little messagesthatbegin,"Luv:Thinking of you as we island-hop,-"and end with,"Must dash.A Robert Redford lookalike has been chasing me all over the ship." Other pen pals I can live without are the people whose children are Their letters are filled with news of "Robbie"who just won a "Being"scholarship to Harvard.(He's so exceptional,all he has to do is sit there and breathe for four years.)There's also Rachel who is competing in the Baton Olympics,makes all her own clothes,just sold her first story to Reader's Digest, and is going to spend her entire summer reading the Bible. And don't forget little Kenneth who gets up during the nighttochangehisownPampers.(Does still have a plastic liner in his football uniform?) The letter-writer-s who really bug me,though,are the ones with the stationery whose paper matches the envelopes.Sure it's easy to write a letter when you have all the equipment,but for me,it's a real hassle finding clean paper,a pencil,and a stamp. It has been four days since I sent my sister the letter and when I didn't hear from her this morning,I lifted the phone,called,.md said,"What's the matter?Is your arm broken?" "I just got your letter,"she said."I'll answer it this afternoon." "Well,hurry up.I have another three-ce-stamp that's burning a hole in my pocket!" What's Wrong with Our Lives and Our Society? We feed Europe to prevent communism,not because the people are hungry. Margaret Mead mortality.What does that mean?Basically,it means this country doesn't care about its children.Why is the number so low?Because there are whole groups of minority children, children of the rural poor,who don't benefit from the medical advances before us.Who simply still do not receive innoculations against diseases of childhood. Somebody's proposed that a massive effort to finger lakes How can we make progress?Resolve some of the defects in our society?Basically,Dr. Mead said,individual people have to care enough to want to do something. "In our society maybe one voice isn't quite enough,but get 10 friends together,give your group a name and start writing letters,and your power increases tremendously ..." Where will we be in the year 2000? Dr.Mead doesn't blink before she answers: "I hope we'll still be here.I think the question is an academic one in light of the way we are planning to proliferate nuclear breeders as commercial enterprise,given to countries lack- ing the necessary controls and competency to avoid accidents ...when atomic power was in the hands of the military,I don't think you can regard that as a safety either,but there were systems of control,concentration of man- agement in fewer hands...." This nation,she said,"is 17th in infant vaccinate the whole country against swine flu will bring these children into the system,so records can be made,so they can be followed and brought back for other vaccinations. "That's the way our system works sometimes ...we do one thing to achieve some other end. Like we feed Europe to prevent communism,not because the people are hungry." Linda Hansen writes tor the Rochester By LINDA HANSEN We've built some grave defects into our society,Dr.Margaret Mead said in a recent interview. In coping with the change of modern life, we've pieced'together "runaway feedback sys- tems"that don't accomplish what we set out to do or accomplish things we didn't envision. "Like the highway system.We put a tax on gas to pay for building highways,which meant we could produce more cars,that needed more gas,which needed bigger highways ...Today is the time to face questions like how do we stop these runaway feedbacks? "Our medical care system includes built-i-n rewards for doing nothing like the public health system that is in theory designed to benefit us,but once the public health depart- ment finds a problem,produces plans to fix it, this means it will cost money,which turns criticism against the people who tried to do something... "Regulatory agencies to oversee the develop- ment and marketing of new drugs are essential- ly rewarded for doing nothing ...We came out good with the thalidomide issue,for example, because the U.S.had not approved the drug use here.But what of other drugs,which may be truly lifesaving,and are held off the market here for years?While many people die,deprived of a drug in use somewhere else. "It's time to do some social 'cost accounting,' some hard social cost benefit analysis.Put some of our social problems under that kind of scrutiny and see what happens.We put delin- quent children,for example,into big institutions that cost more than our best boarding schools and are almost guaranteed to turn out more hardened criminals ..,Is this really sensible? Is it accomplishing anything;and are we getting our 'money's worth'?" Dr.Mead,74,is still making field expeditions to the island of Manus,Papua,New Guinea to study the changes that are occurring in the stone-ag-e tribe she visited in 1928 and lived with during the early '30s and described in her classical sociology text,"Growing Up in New Guinea." She carries a huge English thumb-stic-k a forked cane taller than she is joking,"I got it when I broke my ankle I needed a cane and isn't it just like us to make them useless so you want to discard them?This is dandy,I can hang 60 pounds on it,reach the top of supermarket shelves and,"she added with a sly grin,"I suppose I could kill snakes with it too, if there happened to be any around ..." Her opinion of fashion in America is capsulized,"some of the shoes that have been fashionable here if there'd been a communist plot to destroy the country they couldn't have done better..." ,On Yankee ingenuity,"there isn't a teapot in this country that pours..." On recent political leadership:"Exactly what this country deserves.As long as we have people moving madly to the suburbs so their children will get a good education,then voting against the school bond issue once there,what can we expect?" Dr.Mead said she had thought about death and dying,and has a "living will"she wrote 20 years ago describing exactly what she would and would not want done for her should she become ill. "We're careful to list what we want done with our diamonds,the grand piano,grandmother'sfarm...but how about ourselves?I have stated that I wouldn't want heroic intervention if the outcome would mean survival with doubtful brain capacity,if I could not communicate for example.I think I could cope with blindness or deafness,but not both.If I could speak,I could manage if 1 could still write.But if I couldn't do either ...that's when I wouldn't want in- tervention." The crucial point in the Karen Quinlan case, she thinks,"was not the dilemma of brain death itself,but the fact that legally she's an adult. Should parents have rights over their children like this,even after the children are adult? Should it matter,she pointed out,how much they were suffering if their dilemma conflicted with Karen's own wishes? Mors d'oeuvres from Austria TODAY Dryden Memorial Day Program includes parade beginning at 10:30 a.m.,memorial address,music and dinner at 12:30 p.m. Groton -Alcoholics Anonymous,Groton Community Church 8 15 p.m. Newfield -Chicken barbecue,sponsored by the Newfield Fire Company,Fire Station,noon until sold out. TUESDAY Trumansburg Meet the candidates night,sponsored by PTA, elementary school auditorium,8 p.m. Varna -Senior Citizens sack lunch,business meeting to follow, Varna Community Center,noon. West Danby -West Danby Cemetary Association annual meet- ing.West Danby Methodist Church,7 p.m. WEDNESDAY Ithaca Open House at Meadow House,602 W.State St.,1 to 4 p.m. The area events column is primarily for activities that are open to the public.Clubs with regular memberships will not be listed unless they are having special meetings, inviting the public,or holding special fundraisers in which the public will be interested. Announcements will run twice:the day before and the day of the event Send typed notices one week in advance of the date event is scheduled.Releases which should appear elsewhere must be submitted separately.Notices cannot be taken by ,telephone. By PAUL T.GRAVES Gannett News Service Austrian Stuffed Eggs You will need for six: 5 tbsps.anchovy paste 5 tbsps.cooked chicken,ground 5 tbsp.cooked celery,ground 6 tbsps.mayonnaise Salt Cayenne Pepper Dry mustard 9 eggs (1)Hard cook the eggs.Place them in a saucepan with enough water to cover to about an inch.Bring the water to just the first sign of a boil.Reduce the heat and barely simmer for 15 minutes.Rapid bcsiling will make an egg tough.Stir them gently in the pan from time to time to keep the yolks in the center.Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and plunge the eggs immediately into cold water to keep them from discoloring under the shell. (2)When cold,slice eggs lengthwise and remove the yolks to a mixing bowl. (3)Mash yolks and blend in anchovy paste ground chicken,celery and mayonnaise. (4)Mix in salt,cayenne pepper and drymustardtotaste. (5)Heap this stuffing into the egg halves.Use a pastry tube for a swirl design,if you wish. (6)For the first course at the dinner table serve three halves on a small plate and garnisheachwithalettuceleafandasliceoftomatoAs an appetizer with cocktails,arrange the eggshalvesonaservingplatewiththegarnishandallowgueststohelpthemselves Reproduced with permission of copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.