Letters to the Editor

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Dear Editor:

Enclosed is my check for the next two issues of TVia and

a couple more dollars to help out in someway.

Before I forget--I want to thank Peggie for her article in TVia #4 on TVs and glasses. I don't know why I never thought of it myself. It was so simple. I copied all the information off my prescription, the size and all were on it. Then I walked right into an Optician and told the sales girl that I'd like to have a pair of glasses made for my sister. I picked them up a couple of days ago. I never wore my male glasses when in dresses but I'll always wear these new feminine ones. In fact I think I look much prettier with them on than without them. Thanks again, Peggie.

So you see, Virginia, along with bringing me much happiness TVia has already helped me in another way from the experiences of another TV.-

Yours,

Edna--Texas

Dear Editor:

Insurance companies tell us women live, on the average, years longer than men. This was not always so and it has been only in more recent years that it has become evident.

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The male of the species has a habit of not taking care of his body, overeating and going around with his front sticking out in a kind of pregnant effect, wearing heavy clothes, tight collars and a necktie which puts seven thicknesses of cloth a- round the one part of his body which doesn't need it. This may account for a few of these lost years.

Apparently anything a woman does to keep herself healthy and extend the years of her life are taboo for a man. He has to travel the rut laid out for him and eventually leave his widow the fruits of his labor about the time he reaches retirement age. A martyr to the clothing industry, he must wear heavy cloth- ing indorrs while his feminine counterpart is cool and comfort- able in her bare neck and light clothing and shoes.

Perhaps a basis for this might be found in something which was, at one time, known to the men who worked outdoors in the north country. However lightly he might be dressed he never neg-