European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday Juris 27,1986 columns & comments today s crossword letters fac of make a column easy Brandy Honey recently i went to a party in Washington and met Ann Landers. She s Small pretty carefully dressed am easy to talk to. These Are not the things i envy Ann Landers for though. I envy her All those Short Well written letters she gels asking direct questions thai she can make a column out of answering. All the letters i get arc three pages Long and they never ask me anything. They re always telling me. Here s a Sample of he kind of letters i d like to gel dear Andy my husband and i have been married for 27 years and we re always looking i or How to be Happy what is the secret to happiness signed unhappy do unhappy the scent la twine hippy ii in Lemming la Lake pleasure from ill the doll routine and terrible things hit Kip happen pm to you in Hie. Once Yoo hive mattered the in of liking Drudgery bid Luck and disappointment you la be i Happy person. Dear Andy my husband told me he s in love with another woman who is 17 years younger than he is. I m in love with another Man 17 years older than i am. What advice can you give us signed ageless dear ageless i d suggest both of you Start acting your Ages. Dear Andy if a president was divorced and remarried while still in office would his second wife still be called the first lady signed history scholar dear scholar if president divorced his wife and married Mother woman while still in the while House the first lady is not what the other woman would be called most often especially by the first wife. Dear Andy do you like the name Andrew we Are about to have a baby and if it s a boy we re thinking of naming him Andrew. Signed pregnant dear pregnant yes i like the name Andrew but if your name is Andrew Yon act called Andy and 1 Don t like to be called  unfortunately i Don t like people going out of their Way to Call me Andrew either so a lot of people just Call me  my advice to you is Nave a girl. Dear Andy do you read Ann Landers column if so do you really think she gets All those letters or docs she a Etc them herself signed suspicious dear suspicions you an suspicious Aren t you when 1 talked with Ann in was Fagton the subject never came up u i Don t know who writes the idlers she answers. Dear Andy this is the first time i be Ever written to a columnist. What is your opinion of people who write to columnists and ask for advice How Many people do you think have lived happily Ever after because of the advice they got from columnists signed truth seeker dear seeker the sane number of people have lived happily Eer after because of the advice they got from columnists � have made the right decisions in life by paying attention to the astrology columns. Dear Andy Ever since we were married my wife has insisted that i make the bed every morning. Do you think a Man should make the bed signed unmade dear unmade very often the solution to any problem is Compro Mise. Why Don t Yoo agree to make your Side of the bed frankly 1 Don t know How Ann Landers does it Day after Day. The answers Are easy but the questions Are hard to think of. C Inbum Madol srvic4 parents author might be kidding by Dick West Washington just about everyone Fram or. Spock on has taken a swing at explaining kids to parents so 1 was glad to see the process finally has been reversed. Thanks to Ruth Pennebaker of Dallas toddlers who can read can obtain a copy of a Guidebook called Par  although the author at times betrays signs of having once been a kid herself her Book is generally freighted on the Side of explaining the tall ones As she refers to adults to youngsters. Pennebaker gratefully refrained from titling her Book everything you always wanted to know about parents but were afraid to ask. She does however embrace a Large variety of infirmities including the observation that tall ones Art old hard of hearing unimaginative unfair and run the world. All these troubles Are in my judgment legitimate defense mechanisms. Take car trouble for example the tall one Are going deaf Pennebaker writes. You find yourself making a reasonable request a fifth bowl of ice Cream say and you gel no response. They look like they Haven t even heard you repeal your request Over and Over with rapidly rising volume. Punctuate it with shrieks if necessary. You will find ibid Leeh Niqui is especially effective in restaurant and other Public  As i was saying feigning bearing difficulties can be b legitimate defense mechanism on the parents part. Although miss Pringle one of my Grade school English teachers would t allow shrieks As punctuation Marks a Parent soon learns that certain situations in. Arise in a restaurant or ice Cream parlor Are better left to the waitress to  waitress May not be a Parent herself but we shall Hope she will know How to Cope with rapidly rising volumes in children. As for parents being unfair Pennebaker tells toddlers if you want to get a big laugh someday just Check out what the tall ones Are Reading about  bookshelves also can be a defense mechanism. Any Short ones As toddlers presumably Are called who try to amuse themselves by checking out what 1 am Reading about them will soon be awash in such titles As should a shrieking two year old see a Psychia Trist. The tall ones spend most of their Lime running your life anyway Pennebaker writes. The last thing they need is More tips on bossing you  she Points out that in the United states where everyone is supposedly equal toddlers can t drink vote or see a rated  Don t have credit cards or even credit rat Ings she notes. And then they parents wonder Why 2-year-Olds whine so  it in t being turned away from a polling place or being denied plastic credit that causes toddlers to whine. It s the failure of parental defense mechanism such As faulty  evidence that the tall ones Are losing touch with reality in their dotage Pennebaker cites All the times you be played hid Vand seek with them and they be forgotten to look for  0 loud Pihi into Nuton sat i am a 1hksmw r am by Eugene Sheffer across 35 Back to 1 i tint s the future it Star 4 la nah 36 Cigar pow