Favorite Slippers Give Them the Slip
The next problem is certainly no shoo-in for two readers. Frieda Block of Culver City can no longer find high-cut terry cotton bedroom slippers bonded to quarter-inch rubber soles; the last pair she found was available at Sears in Santa Monica and washed beautifully. To add a footnote, Kathryn Novak of Los Angeles is still looking for Daniel Green house slippers with the high-wedge heel in Size 6C. Can you help these two footloose readers with their slippery problems, or will they be apt to get cold feet before this bedroom story ends?
Max Brown of Overland Park, Kan., would like to be in the chips--mother-of-pearl chips, that is. His wife has inherited an antique Chinese mirror, but a few mother-of-pearl pieces are missing from the teakwood frame. Can you help with a few scattered pearls of wisdom, or will Brown have to let some more chips fall where they maybe shouldn’t?
Phyllis Gilman of Laguna Hills has a problem that could really be breathtaking: She--and her pulmonary specialist--are looking for a hygrometer, an instrument that measures humidity and warns people when it’s time use a vaporizer. Can you help put a damper on this situation?
Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Edna at (213) 454-4790 needs the flasher box (which controls the sequential turn signals) for a 1968 Cougar XR7 ; neither dealers nor junkyards seem to stock this item any longer. Please help before driving on Sunset Boulevard becomes a complete turn-off for Edna. . . . Grace at (818) 848-5054 is looking for an Alfred E. Newman record called “It’s a Gas,” put out by Mad magazine years ago; the magazine is completely out of copies. Please step on the gas and help, if only to keep Grace from being mad at us.
Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for products no longer available in stores. And you must give us written permission to publish your telephone number, so that other readers may contact you directly.
Jan Williams of Mission Hills, who has been looking for a Sleep-Mate (a machine that screens out street noises), should soon be able to get one in her sleep, as long as she goes “by the book.” Sue Hadler of Palmdale, Jean Decker of Bellflower and Stephanie Wittwer of Los Angeles said the Sleep-Mate is available in the current J. C. Penney catalogue. Another catalogue source for Sleep-Mates, Sears Roebuck’s, was mentioned by Anna Blackwell of Riverside, Marian Spencer of Santa Monica and three Whittier readers--Beatrice McClain, N. L. Owens and Oma Lee Parsons. And for high-class peace of mind, Shirley Brough of Irvine recommends Hammacher Schlemmer’s Sleep Sound Generator (standard model $44.95, deluxe $49.95) or their Personal Environmental Sound Machines, which offer “Rainfall,” “Waterfall” and “Surf I” and “Surf II” ($134.95 without speaker, $149.95 with speaker). Hammacher Schlemmer’s address is 147 East 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Since we printed the request from an English lady for used postage stamps, Ann Brodfuehrer of Ramona told us about an American organization that also is in the market for used stamps: Stamps for the Wounded, c/o Herman Neugass, 4201 Cathedral Ave. N.W., Apt. 924-E, Washington, D.C. 20016.
If Harriette Chumley of La Crescenta (or anyone else, for that matter) is still looking for an adjustable metal sweater stretcher, we have somewhat good news: Four readers indicated their willingness to part with a sweater stretcher. Would a stamped, self-addressed envelope mailed to us be stretching things too far?
For Shirley Freedland of Long Beach, who was looking for washboard cookies, we finally have something for her to chew on: No sources for the cookies as such, but six readers sent in recipes for baking them. One of the six, Dolores Richey of Monrovia, says the recipe she submitted is also available in the Betty Crocker cookbook, and Velma Sicotte of Laguna Hills is willing to share her recipe. We’ve forwarded Sicotte’s letter to Freedland.
Herb Hain cannot answer mail personally but will, space permitting, respond in this column to readers who need--or have--helpful information. Write (do not telephone) to You Can Help!, You section, the Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles 90053.
