European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ann Landers dear Ann Landers considering the sad state of education in this country i thought you might want to run this Beauty from the Osgood file. He says it awfully Well. H l in Bloomington ind dear . Charles Osgood of lbs is a longtime favorite of mine. Thanks for sending it on there once was a pretty Good student who sat in a pretty Good class and was taught by a pretty Good teacher. Who always let pretty Good pass. He Wasny to terrific at Reading he was t a Whiz bang at math. But for him education was leading straight Down a pretty Good path. He did t find school too exciting but he wanted to do pretty Well and he did have some trouble with writing. And nobody had taught him to spell. When doing arithmetic problems pretty Good was regarded As Fine. Five plus five need t always add up to be ten a  answer was nine. Saturday october 5, 1991 the stars and stripes today a crossword Page 21 dear Abby dear Abby i have a big problem. I am getting married on nov. 23. My Fiance and 1 Are having a wedding reception with More than 200 guests. There Are no children invited. According to the etiquette books that i have read it is not proper to put a no children on your wedding invitations. Mine Are already printed up the proper Way anyway one of my aunts is upset because her son and his wife have a 2-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy and some mental retardation. They claim that they cannot get a baby Sitter for the boy and that they Are bringing him to the wedding. They brought him to a family wedding last year and everyone was buzzing about it. I done to understand Why they can to get a Sitter. They have plenty of time to find one. And i done to want you to think that we done to want the boy there because he has a disability. My Fiance also has a physical disability but it is not fair to my Fiance a family some of whom have Small children too. How do i handle this pressured in Pennsylvania dear pressured wait until your Cousin and his wife respond to your wedding invitation with the number of guests that will be in their party. If they put Down More than two then you have every right to Call your cousins wife and sex the pretty Good class that he sat in was part of a pretty Good school. And the student was not an exception. On the contrary he was the Rule. The pretty Good school that he went to was there in a pretty Good town. And nobody there seemed to notice he could not Tell a verb from a noun. The pretty Good student in fact was part of a pretty Good mob. And the first time he knew what he lacked was when he looked for a pretty Good Job. It was then when he sought a position. He discovered that life could be Tough. And he soon had a sneaky suspicion pretty Good might not be Good enough. The pretty Good town in our Story was part of a pretty Good state. Which had pretty Good aspirations. And prayed for a pretty Good Fate. There once was a pretty Good nation. Pretty proud of the greatness it had. Which Learned much too late. If you want to be great. Pretty Good is in fact pretty bad. C creators Syndicate Plain to her that this is an adults Only affair. You Are right a there is ample time for them to arrange for a Sitter. And if they can to find one then they should Send their regrets instead of bringing an extra guest for whom their hosts Are not prepared a which is the height of rudeness. Dear Abby you once published a piece in your column about a Little girl who had died. She was ascending to heaven with her lighted Candle but her mothers tears kept putting the Candle out. Would you please print it again we recently lost a child and i keep thinking about that column but am unable to locate it anywhere. Linda Dougherty Chino Hills Calif. 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