Dear Ann Landers Advice Column Slice
Readers vent marital performative quirks and family friction in a mixed page of letters. A wife asks how to cope with a husband whose speech habits and posture irritate, while another seeks guidance on a daughter’s suitor and household expenses, and a teen seeks independence with parental confrontation.
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Ann Landers
Chuck
Anda
Dee
Per
Marson
Hart
Ford
Mother Daughter Weight Loss Duo Share Calorie Plan
A mother and daughter recount their five year journey from sizes 20 to 14 and 9 10 by counting calories. They avoided pills and fad diets, ate lean meats and vegetables, limited bread, and used calisthenics to reshape figures. They credit disciplined eating and shared effort for lasting slimness and improved wellbeing.
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Ida Jean Kain
Kay Windsor Fall Knits Showcase Shapes and Shades
Kay Windsor presents fall and winter ensembles in wool knit costumes. Items include Grosse Point yoke dress, Westchester sheath with T placket, North Shore pea jacket suit, Chevy Chase cardigan with cowl shell, and Nob Hill two piece overblouse ensemble in gold and plum. Sizes 8 to 20. Prices range from 19.89 to 28.99.
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North Shore
Nob Hill
Biscuits Cut Into Fun Shapes Inspire Kids Tables
HELOISE suggests using cookie cutters on biscuits to create stars bells trees and animals to spark conversation at meals. Mary Rohloff endorses the idea as one of the cutest suggestions of the month and notes cookie cutters from a child's set work well for appetizers.
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Mary Rohloff
Heloise
Dear Heloise solves floor mat slipping around toilet base
Dear Heloise offers a simple fix for bathroom floor mats that wander around the toilet. K A McMahan sewed white elastic thread loops on the mat underside and hooked them to the toilet base bolts to hold the mat in place.
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Heloise
K. A. McMahan
Diy Stool Boosters for a Chrome Dinette Set
Mrs. George J. Rue describes a low cost furniture hack using hollow chair legs filled with cut broom handles to raise a kitchen chair for a child. Rubber tips protect floors while the project remains simple and paintable to match the chair.
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George J. Rue
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