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Yule gifts
Musical instruments are great
gifts for family members
CHICAGO — (NEA) — Get
ting your family started in
music making is really quite
easy since musical in
struments make fun Christ
mas gifts for everyone.
While browsing at your
local music store, you'll find a
wide variety of instruments
and accessories suited to
every age group, budget and
interest.
Here are some suggestions:
For the youngest on your
gift list, rhythm, percussion
and beginning wind in
struments are usually very
popular. Tambourines,
drums, xylophones, tonettes
and recorders all sell in the $2
to sl2 range and can en
courage more serious music
study later on.
According to the American
Music Conference, more
youngsters are beginning to
study music at younger ages
than ever before. For this
reason a number of in
struments have been scaled
down to facilitate early lear
ning. Some violins for in
stance are available at half to
a 16th normal size.
Teenagers are still very
much into guitars and other
pickin’ and singin' in
struments. Ukuleles start as
low as $45 and some good
guitar models, about SBS-S9O
Banjos, mandolins and
dulcimers are also popular
choices.
Perhaps there’s a musician
in your family already. A new
trumpet, clarinet or some
electronic gear undoubtedly
would be appreciated Or, this
might be the year the whole
family shares in a gift of a
piano or organ. Some elec
tronic organ models sell for
under S4OO while more expen
sive types can put an entire
“combo” in your home with
exciting instrumental and
rhythm effects.
This year you’ll find some
really fascinating in
struments, fashioned after an
cient musical devices.
Today’s “slit drum’’
resembles those made by the
Mayans centuries ago This
instrument is simply a
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Gift Suggestions
Electric Blankets Ready Made Drapes
Acrilan & Polyester Pictures
Blankets Cookware
Hand Woven Throws Small Electrics
Sheet Sets Mikasa China
Towel Sets Tableware
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wooden box with rounded cor
ners and H-shaped slits cut
into the top. Striking various
areas of the top produces
different tones for a multi
drum effect.
A “Likimba" is most likely
African in origin and like the
slit drum sells for about $25.
This very melodic instrument
has a hollow wood body to
which metallic reeds of vary
ing lengths are attached. The
mellow tones are produced by
plucking the reeds. Other
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Widow changes mind
about life insurance
By Abigail Van Buren
© 1976 by Chicago Tribune N. Y. New* Synd Inc
DEAR ABBY: I am 27 years old, with two young
children, and widowed only this month. For those women
who haven’t experienced this, it is terrifying. But there is
one thing I'm not worried about, and that's how I am going
to feed my family of three for the next 16 years. I can’t
take the credit.
Last year, a life insurance salesman sold my husband a
$50,000 life insurance policy—over my objection. I just
couldn’t see our spending sl4 a month. I wish now that
he’d sold us twice as much.
We don’t get a lot, but it will get us by.
A word to future widows: Listen to life insurance
salesmen. You'll be glad you did when you get that check.
KNOWS BETTER NOW
DEAR KNOWS: Life insurance salesmen are frequently
accused of being too pushy, too persistent and too high
pressure. But as a matter of policy they provide
heaven-sent protection against personal tragedy.
DEAR ABBY: In reading the letter from the father who
found pornographic pictures in his 14-year-old son’s wallet,
I have nothing but sympathy for him.
I wish more parents could understand the sexual
tensions teenagers suffer today. It varies from person to
person, of course. But a lot has changed since parents were
in their teens.
Being 17, I’ve found little pornography available and
little demand for it from my age group. But I still believe in
our constitutional right to read anything we like. It has
been said that a country that burns books eventually will
burn people.
PHILLIP R.
DEAR PHILLIP: You have a good head on those
17-year-old shoulders.
DEAR ABBY: My wife insists on letting our dog lick our
plates clean after we’ve eaten. She also treats him to the
pots and pans she’s cooked in, saying he enjoys this more
than his own bowl.
I tell her it’s unsanitary, but she says everything is
sterilized when it goes into the dishwasher, so there is
nothing unsanitary about it. What do you think?
SICK IN SAN CLEMENTE
DEAR SICK: I’m with you. Sterilized or not,
psychologically, it’s sickening!
CONFIDENTIAL TO READERS: Wondering what to
give an elderly friend or shut-in for Christmas or
Chanukah? How about an assortment of greeting cards for
them to send to others for birthdays, anniversaries,
weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, confirmations, etc.? And be a real
sport and affix postage stamps on all the envelopes.
Everyone has a problem. What's yours? For a personal
reply, write to ABBY: Box No. 69700, L.A., Calif. 90069.
Enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope, please.
ethnic instruments would
make unusual gifts for the in
strument buff as well —
anything from amplified
African log drums and tunable
bongos to zithers.
For those on a tight budget
remember harmonicas $2 and
up make great stocking
stuffers as do drum sticks,
guitar slings, mouthpieces
and gift certificates for music
lessons.
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Too many of us seniors have
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Some of us, in fact, have used
it as an excuse to lean on our
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Growing older
Never too old to make new friends
adult children for emotional
sustenance. The line is,
“You’re all we’ve got.”
But what we have for our
children and grandchildren
isn’t friendship. It’s love. Nor
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in their difficulties.
Friendship, on the other
hand, is importantly different
from blood ties. We choose
our friends. We make friends.
Friendship is always in mo
tion. The family is always
there. Circumstances that
relate to time, place, interests
— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 20,1976
and extraneous matters may
enrich friendships or im
poverish them.
Invariably as we grow
older, therefore, the kind and
number of our friendships
change. Any of us, when old,
may face a period when new
friends must be found. For
some of us, the finding of new
friends may be the only possi
ble mercy in a desperate
flight from loneliness. When
that need arises, it becomes
important to disprove the
myth that “people can’t build
new friendships in old age.”
We must prove the opposite.
We older people can make
new friends and develop
satisfying new associations.
The operative words here are
“make” and “develop.”
Friendships do not fall into
our laps. Friendships do not
just happen. Acquaintances
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