European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 27, 1991 the stars aha stripes a Pago 19 Ann Landers dear readers remember the Tetter from . In Singapore the woman who had picked up a Book in the Reading room of a hotel in Thailand the title was a pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Inside the Book was a note from the Man who had left it. It read a it is of to take this Book with you but will you please leave it in another hotel so other travellers May enjoy it just let me know where it is. Thank you. Don Hoskins Saugatuck mich., i assured that we would hear from Don Hoskens _ that someone would let him know his name had appeared in my column a or perhaps he would see it himself in the Bangkok Post. Sure enough a few Days ago i received a letter from Don Hoskins. He wrote dear Ann you were right. Your column produced a flood of mail including letters and cards from Long lost friends. Clippings Are coming in from All Over the world. Perhaps you would like to know How this practice of leaving books for . Well i sold my Chicago based business in 1969 and decided to travel around the world. Southeast Asia especially Thailand has been a constant Magnet. I have always been a voracious Reader and since i travel a great Deal paperbacks make the most sense. But what to do with the paperbacks once read it occurred to me that i ought to share them with others so i hit upon the idea of leaving them in visible places in the hotels i had visited and i always enclosed my card. It would not be an exaggeration to say i have left several today a crossword dear Abby dear Abby i am a 62-year-old widow just retired from my teaching Job. I am seeing a 69-year-old widower. At first i Felt fortunate to have found someone so kind gentle and honest. He talks of marriage but there is always something to delay it. First he needed foot surgery then he had a respiratory problem then heart problems. He claims he wants to marry me but there always seems to be something standing in the Way. Mind you i am not pressuring him. As a matter of fact in a having second thoughts about it myself. Of course wed have a prenuptial agreement but Why should i marry him to be his nurse in his old ase he a a Lousy Lover and he As much As told me he does no to care for sex. He a financially secure but so am i. He has a Fine Home but so have i. We be gone together for two years and have had spec Lovely trips. I would appreciate your opinion Abby. Mutually compatible dear compatible Why marry Why done to you two compatible people just shake hands and continue to be close friends dear Abby i was so infuriated by the letter from the woman i Hundred books in hotel lobbies from Tokyo to Sydney dozens of people have written to Tell me where they had found the books and they enjoyed them. Don Hoskins. Bangkok dear Ann Landers 1 am a Junior at Yale. My father graduated from Yale in 1969. A few Days ago 1 was going through his yearbook and found a column he a if clipped dated March 17, 1967.1 split my sides laughing. Please run it again. A. A. A a a w a . Dear . I split mine too. La arc it is dear Ann Landers i sent for your Booklet a teenage sex and 10 ways to Cool i tried All 10 ways but none of them worked. Now 1 am in trouble. You can guess w hat kind. My Boyfriend has suggested four alternatives. Marriage was. Not among them. Please do not suggest that i go to my parents because i am an orphan. And done to Tell me to try religion because i am an atheist. I Hope you will not ask me to speak to my Counselor because she has gained a lot of weight lately and the word is that she is in the same kind of trouble i am in. Can you help me misguided Angel dear Angel i should have added an eleventh Way to Cool it. Use your excess Energy on Homework so there will be no strength left for anything else like writing phony letters. The new Haven postmark is always the tip Oll i receive More clinker from you Birds at Yale than any other group. Knock it Oft will you please. C creators Syndicate a wont Call her a lady who stand having workmen using her bathroom facilities that i had to Cool off for a couple of weeks before i could even respond. My husband is a Carpenter. His work clothes May be stained they get that Way in his business but they Are showers every night to Wash off the dirt a sometimes filth a he gets while he works. One cannot be stupid and be a Good Carpenter plumber or electrician. If he s self employed As my Hus band is he must also be a Good businessman. He works hard without such benefits As company provided health insurance paid vacations and pension plans. If he a injured on the Job wed better have Money in the Bank to live on because the state does no to have workmen a compensation for us. And if business is slow he can to file for unemployment. These Are some of the reasons Why Good carpenters cabinetmakers plumbers etc., arc becoming an endangered species. People like her Are usually very grateful to have a Workman show up when they have a problem sometimes in the bathroom she a so stingy with. Maybe somebody should remind her that Jesus was a Carpenter. Would she begrudge him the use of her facilities furious in fort Wayne dear furious Well said lady. Very Well said. C Universal press a. / across 1 Gudrun a husband 5 comment from Scrooge 8 court Star 12 source of tallow 13 Spanish Queen. 14 greek portico 15 up. Matrons 16 Small person Slang. 18 lacking vigor 20 barrel spigots 21 Broad topped Hill 23 Quot stay As Sweet As you a 24 shading Between Light and dark 28 miss Kett 31 the Gums 32 shorthand for. 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