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* It was 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes who made the following sage observation: “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” * At Christmastime in Greece, people traditionally give small gifts to orphanages and hospitals rather than to each other. * The antlers of a bull moose can spread up to 6 feet across -- and they accomplish this astonishing growth in only four months. * The battle between keepers of livestock and the biting flies that pester their herds is as old as the pastoral life. In recent times, pesticides have been applied with some success, but the expense -- and especially the toxicity -- worry many people. Japanese researchers have recently discovered a simple and inexpensive way to mitigate this concern: Paint zebra stripes on the cows. After several days of observing a control group of black cattle and a test group of the same breed of cattle painted with white stripes, they found that less than half as many biting flies landed on the striped cattle. * The first postage stamp commemorating Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.

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Working Women, Stay-At-Home Moms And Social Security Sometimes I will write what I think is the most harmless and innocuous column about a Social Security issue -- and then all hell breaks loose! It happened again recently. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I explained that a workingwoman will generally be paid her own Social Security benefit first. Only after that will they will look to her husband’s record to see if she can get any additional benefits. Well, that triggered a whole host of emails, some of them quite angry. Here is an example.

I can’t believe how Social Security discriminates against women like me who were forced to work in order to maintain a certain standard of living. It’s a travesty that these lazy women who never worked a day in their lives and who got to stay home and let their husbands take care of them get essentially the same benefits that I do. I know a lady from our church who never worked a day in her life, and she gets Social Security from her husband -- and I get squat! What’s wrong with this picture?

in her monthly checks from my dad’s side of the it seems like a valid point. In fact, I’ve heard thousands of workingwomen make the same argument Social Security ledger. to me over the years. relady neighbor the Across the alley, But here is the flip side of that coin: If workceived no benefits on her own Social Security ac- ing women can get their own retirement benefits widows substantial rather count, but she did get a benefit from her deceased banker husband. It was and full spousal benefits, shouldn’t working men more than my mother received from her combined be offered the same? In other words, every single working person in this country would get his or her accounts. own Social Security benefit, and at the same time, end. no to mother my And this peeved Sadly, she lived the rest of her life bearing deep everyone would also get a spousal benefit from his resentment -- partly to her neighbor and partly to or her husband or wife. Let’s be realistic. The system was never set the Social Security system that allowed what she up to do that. And it never could do that. Where in still can I happen. to perceived to be this injustice hear her griping: “THAT WOMAN never worked a the world would the money come from to essentialday in her life. And there she is in that big house, ly pay double benefits to everyone in the country? The truth is Social Security spousal and getting more money each month from the govern- survivor benefits have always been classified as her all hard worked who ment than me, a woman “dependents” benefits. They are meant to be paid life just trying to make ends meet!” to a lower-earning (or nonearning) spouse who was SecuSocial the for After I started working rity Administration, my mom carried on with her financially dependent on the higher-income spouse. rants about the supposedly broken system and They were never meant to be paid to everyone as some kind of add-on marital bonus to their own Soasked me “to do something about it.” cial Security account. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  nothing absolutely was Of course, there * * * that a brand new SSA employee could do about Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or co If you have a Social Security question, Tom the govern that laws the this situation. Besides, Office:has 760-320-0997 Fax: Margenau the answer. Contact him 760-320-1630 at thomas.marpayment of Social Security benefits are written by genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom MarCongress, not by bureaucrats. Still, I tried to molgenau and to read past columns and see features from MON.,andOCT. 14 lify my mom by discussing the rationale behind the other Creators Syndicate writers cartoonists, visit was Security Social that rules with her. I explained the Creators www.creators.com. Please review carefully. DoubleSyndicate check: website Phone at Number(s)  Spelling  Pr not set up to work like regular pension programs. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately withchanges insurance a socialreview carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s) Spelling or  corr Price It always was (and still is today)Please Office: email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760for goals760-320-0997 program intended to accomplish larger Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes FREE or correc of Coachella Valley society. 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-32 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 think things I used to ask my mom: “If youOffice: Howard Miller • Ridgeway • Sligh • Antique are unfair, what do you think we should do about Rights Reserved We also Service, All Repair and New repair Wall, it? Should we take widows benefits away from our Mantel, Movements from Germany Ship’s and neighbor because you don’t think she deserves 32 years Cuckoo Clocks experience BoB’s CloCk shop them?” My mother might get a nasty little gleam in Please review carefully. Double check: / San Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric Carlsbad Diego / Desert Communities her eye with that thought. But she always eventualA.R.C. Concrete c/oCoachella Willie Dougherty Servicing Valley on Fri., Sat. or Mondays her widows your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correc ly admitted that the neighbor was due Contact BZ BW 6x Disc. Call for In-Home service appointment benefits. Office:20, 760-320-0997 760-320-1630 760-729-5121 -orOctober 2019 Vol. 15 - No.Fax: 43 1-800-734-5121 WED., MAR. 22 My mom would counter with this: “I think I should get my own full Social Security benefit AND Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  my own full widows benefit. After all, I worked workedyour Tidbits representative immediately with changes or co and paid for my Social Security, and DadContact Property of surface, and paid for his Social Security!” On theOffice: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 76 AdVenture Media, Inc.

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Wow! There is some anger there -- on a whole lot of levels. I’m not even going to touch your sentiments about stay-at-home wives and mothers. I’ll let someone more versed in women’s issues deal with that. But I will discuss your concerns about Social Security. And I think the best way I can do that is to once again share this story about my mom and the lady who lived next door to us. I grew up in a small town where you could find rich folks in big houses living very near to poor folks occupying much more modest dwellings. And that was true of our neighborhood. My dad was a janitor struggling to make ends meet. My mother had to work to help pay the rent and keep enough groceries on the table to feed me and my three siblings. Just behind our house and across the alley was a big home owned by the vice president of a local bank. His wife, even though she had a degree in journalism, never worked outside the home once the first of an eventual brood of six children came along. My brothers and sister and I got along famously with the children of the banker and his wife. We were always playing games, shooting baskets or just hanging out. On the other hand, our parents rarely spoke. I guess the economic and educational gulf between them was just too great to foster any kind of meaningful relationship. And that gulf only widened later in life between my mom and the neighbor lady after both of their husbands died. Sadly, most of the friction and resentment came from my mom’s side of the alley. And much of it had to do with Social Security. Because my mom had worked most of her life, she received her own Social Security retirement benefit. The widows rate she was due on my dad’s Social Security account was only slightly higher than her own, so she did get a small bump

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Enclosed is a spittoon -- I think that is what it was called -- and it was given to us in 1990 when an elderly friend moved out of the home she had been born in. She was 88 years old at the time and said it was her father’s, so it must be over 100 years old. Now we are downsizing and wonder if this has any value other than as a conversation piece? It is in excellent condition, and any markings that might have been on the bottom are gone. It is pretty; you can see the beading edging around the top and the flowers, which do not look hand-painted. Thank you for any information you can give us about it.

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women who chewed tobacco. In the early 1900s, people began to catch on to the concept that spittoons were little petri dishes that spread germs and illness. During the flu epidemic in 1918, people became aware of how easy it was to spread deadly germs. By the 1930s, fewer chewed tobacco, and the need for spittoons diminished. Your spittoon was made in the late 1800s and would appeal to collectors for the price of $50 to $125. * * * This mark is on the bottom of a porcelain chocolate set that I have. It is a 21-piece set that includes a hot chocolate pot, four cups, four saucers, four dessert plates and one ser ving plate. They are decorated with sprigs of pastel flowers against a white background, and they are all in perfect condition. What can you tell me about my set?

Nippon porcelain was exported to the United States.

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Spitoons were in popular use when chewing tobacco was prevalent in the 1800s.

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