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FT to. Days Of Wine And Roses Really Agony Mostly a JZ i 1 1 LjL Hi ii iiiiii j'-iirwiir an alcoholic," said one of her AA friends. "To look at her, nobody would ever guess. But most alcoholics aren't the skid row type that a lot of people picture. Most of us are average, middle-income, middle-class people." Alice can't pinpoint what actually made her drink.

She came from "a drinking family." When she was growing up she didn't drink at all. "I was very much opposed to liquor. "I remember my mother and I used to find my father's liquor and we'd pour it out. At that time, I was really disgusted about drinking. I really don't know when I crossed the line from being just a problem drinker to an alcoholic." She has been sober now for almost 14 years.

Mary is a mother of four and has been married "more than once." Very soft spoken, Mary at 37 is an attractive woman has the appearance of being very tired. "I was a loser. That's the only way to describe it," she explained. "When things star-led going wrong, I'd always find someone or some situation to blame my problems on. It never even occurred to me that there was any correlation between my drinking and my problems.

"The last couple of years, my life was just a crazy merry-go-round and nightmare of drinking. When a woman is an alcoholic she's so remorseful, so ashamed, she just hides. "It's just not as acceptable for a woman to be drunk as it is for a man. So she won't seek help she feels she's so bad she can't face anybody. And it's easier for a woman at home to hide than it is for a man.

"You know that you're going to go through hell and get sick when you start drinking but you go ahead and drink." Mary emphasized that an alcoholic will do almost anything in order to get a drink. If regular liquor isn't available or money has run out you can drink all flavors of extract, pure alcohol, or even canned heat and shaving lotion." Chronic alcoholism is one of the most serious health problems in the United States," according to the Americaa Medical Association and U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. didn't bathe or even comb my hair. It got so bad I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat.

I've been in jails and hospitals and places you'd never dream of." An alcoholic is shrewd and clever when it comes to drinking, explained Sue. "When I was working for awhile, well I used to get a coke on my lunch hour. Then I'd empty half of it and go to my car. I'd fill the rest of the bottle with booze and drink it in the car that's what of lot of girls do on the job." The children of an alcoholic mother become shrewd, emotionally unbalanced and misguided also. Sue's young teen-age son was "just as sick emotionally because of my drinking as I was as ar active alcoholic." "When I would wake-up in the mornings, I'd have to have a drink to stop my shakes.

My little boy, he was 1.1, would hide my bottle at night after I went to bed. "Then he'd offer to sell the bottle back to me in the morning and I'd pay him just to get that drink Alice Ls a nice dresser, small and very attractive. She's 57 and has been married 34 years. "Alice just doesn't look like 7 I I xN 4 fs -Zj i Vj iw -in ii I'ii i -rBi-trt-f-- ii, in lii-iiLli nnir fe-- ht inn hi ir wn- iwreTryiitriwaw nrf that she is actually an alcoholic. "You lie to yourself so many times you start believing your own lies," admitted one of the women.

"You just can't be half-way. You're either an alcoholic or you aren't. Sue is 36 years old, an attractive and well groomed woman, a wife and a mother. She has maintained her sobriety for eight months now taking one day at a time. "Just remember, what lm telling you isn't something in the past." Sue began, with a cup of black coffee close at hand and a lit cigarette.

"It was me, my life just eight months ago it can be me again. All I have to do is take one drink." When did Sue's problems begin? When she started drinking. "I was 17 years old, that's when it started," she remembered. "Every time I'd start on a binge, I'd say: 'Oh God, I hope this time I don't get sick or don't get in I always got sick and always got in trouble that doesn't stop an alcoholic. "I'd disappear from home for days at a time.

I found myself in Las Vegas once and didn't know how I got there. I lied and ehaited. You just anvthing to get a drink. "I'd sit with any man who would buy me a drink. I didn't look like I do now.

Weeks would go by and I Sahuaro Shrine Sets Installation Saturday Night Sahuaro Shrine 2, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, will hold an open installation of 1968 officers Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 1944 E. Allen Road. They are Mrs. Harry O.

Barnard, worthy high priestess; Edmund S. Tourigny, watchman of shepherds; Mrs. Arnold G. Arnevik, noble prophetess and Ammie Mar-low, associate watchman of shepherds. Others are Mrs.

Harry B. Means, worthy chaplain; Mrs. Roy G. Ives, worthy guide; Mrs. Ernest Hardie, worthy Scribe, and Mrs.

Walter F. Poison, worthy treasurer. A reception will follow the installation. GERTRUDE LARSON stirs up a largo batch of happiness for YWCA Friday lunch-eoneers. (Sheaffer photo) Winners In The Human Race Cooking For A Large Qroup Just A Matter Of Planning ml By SHARON McEACIIERN WICHITA, Kan.

(AP) The doors are locked. The Venetian blinds are pulled tight. The telephone rings go unanswered. The woman inside doesn't go out very often. She seldom eats.

She can't sleep well. She has hallucinations. When she does fall asleep, she wakes up in a cold sweat with the "shakes." She lies, she cheats. She hates herself. She has what she and other women like her call "the housewife's secret sickness." She's aji alcoholic.

She is only one of thousands of women alcoholics. There are very few people who do not know her. She's a relative, a neighbor, a friend. But her illness is hidden. She can stay home, behind four walls and people will ignore her problem pretend it's not there.

Members of Alcoholic's Anonymous, a fellowship of men and women whose "primary purpose is to stay sober," took their first step when "we admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable." This is the big step. An active alcoholic seldom admits SWITZER' SWITZER' 4V PAGE ONE SECTION FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968 DESIGNER'S MESSAGE: To answer all the arguments on skirt lengths we aslted a group of designers to give their viewpoints ALL were in agreement that if you show the knee then far better to go higher and show the part of the leg above the knee since ALL agree that the knee showing alone is not a pretty "look" on most women. So the answer seems to be to "go Chanel" and hem to the center of the knee or to go at least three inches above where the knee starts! This might solve the world-wide hemline debate. London, Paris, New York, '68. man talent useful to others I think you should pass it on." Gertrude, who was on the committee when the renovated its kitchens and pantries to a whiz of a stainless steel region, is also the chef for many special events.

She cooked the Victory Dinner for 400 that followed the recent successful YWCA campaign. When she was board president in 1961 and 1962, she even did the cooking for both her installation banquets, then doffed the apron to preside at the dinners. The YWCA is more than just a hobby to Gertrude Larson. "You can't find better friends anywhere than you can at the she smiles. things up in the gleaming kitchen.

Somehow, at 1 p.m., she coolly sits down with the guests, local residents and winter visitors who make reservations for the luncheons the minute they hit town. "It's all in the planning," says Mrs. Larson, who never repeats a menu and has something for everyone. She's famous for her hot rolls that do reappear every Friday. Larson, a former home economics teacher in Wisconsin and erstwhile UA fraternity housemother, says "I've always loved working with food, and if you have a By DOROTHY GAINES Cooking's nice; it's just too "daily" for many of us.

But how would you like cooking up little luncheons for 150 to 200 guests every Friday from Nov. 1 to the end of March? Gertrude Larson volunteered to do just that and loves it. She's head chef for the popular Friday luncheons, programs and book reviews given by the Central YWCA on North Fifth Avenue. For the past twelve years, she's devoted her Thursdays to planning and shopping. At 6:30 a.m.

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