Dear Ann Landers,
he letter to Elmer's wife was my laugh for the day. Why any woman would attach so much importance to the hair on a man's chest is a mystery to me. My brother happened to have a very hairy chest and he was so proud of it he showed it off at every opportunity. He especially enjoyed displaying his bountiful growth in the presence of my husband, who had very little hair on his chest. One day I happened to run across a magazine article that surprised me. It said men with hairy chests were fooling themselves if they considered it a sign of manliness. The more hair on the chest (according to the person who wrote the article), the more female hormones the man had. He went on to say the hairy-chested male is more likely to produce female children while the less hairy-chested man is more apt to have sons. (My brother has four girls and one boy. We have three boys and one girl.) After I showed that article to my brother he strutted a lot less and kept his shirt buttoned more, last laugh