Dear Ann Landers, A mother who becomes involved in the petty squabbles of her children is more childish than they. Ask your wife to please wait until you get home before she "does any-thing." By then the trouble will have been settled-by the kids. 149 Dear Ann: My in-laws are both seventy-three. My husband and I have dinner with them every week. For the past several months my father-in-law has not been acting very fatherly. He never does anything out of the way in the presence of his wife or my husband. He manages to get me in the kitchen or in the back hall. When I was dating I knew how to deal with char-acters who sneaked up and planted an unwanted kiss on the back of my neck. I belted them one and I never had any trouble after that. What should I do in this case? If my hus-band knew he'd be wild.-Disgusted
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Dear Readers, , a reader sent in a 'sure cure' for a headache. He said it worked every time. It went something like this: Take a banana, and peel it. Tape half of the banana peel to your forehead with adhesive and the rest to the back of your head. He said the headache should be gone in 20 minutes.
I don't get headaches often, but the day I read that column, I had a killer migraine. Although people say you shouldn't put bananas in the refrigerator, I always do, and that is where I found my 'lifesaver.' I used commercial duct tape to keep half the banana peel on my forehead and the other half on the back of my neck. Ann, in less than 30 minutes, my headache was gone.
I phoned my husband, a chemistry teacher, and told him about my miraculous cure. He said, 'That was no miracle. You apparently had a potassium deficiency in your system, and the banana filled it.' Mystery solved. -- Greensboro, N.C.
