happily about with "girl's nails". There are other TV operations, too, subtle but real: clarefully clipping all hairs inside the nostrils...and of course trimming the fur inside our ears. That just about ends the list of TV's "little operations". But, wait a minute! There is one more rather daring I guess since very few TV's have had the courage to go through with it. I refer to EAR-PIERCING.

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Many think that it is a rather silly thing to do. After all, one wear any of a million beautiful earrings without having perforated lobes. But there is a strange fascination about having your ears pierced. Somehow it makes you more "woman". How many men in the USA have we seen with pierced ears? Just about none. And even among TV's I'd say no more than half a dozen. Why? Because that is a super-feminine trade-mark. A true no-man's land. And therein therein lies its tremendous fascination. As you know this TV operation has been on my mind for a long, long time. A year or two ago I had and even set a made up my mind to go through with it two-week vacation period as THE date. But — as I confessed in this column, I was chicken. My greatest worry was having to explain the perforations to the thousands of people who would surely pounce upon me as soon as they saw me and point an accusing finger at my stabbed lobes. I had managed to explain my long fingernails by saying that as I do Spanish dancing as a hobby I must keep my nails long in order to play the castanets. Since most people are totally ignorant about the secrets of the Spanish castanets, they swallowed this outright lie. But pierced ears? Is there any instrument that calls for pierced ears? - So I reluctantly pushed my desire away. But it didn't go away. It kept coming back. And then I received a visit from Ann Mailo. She has her ears pierced. A tiny dab of make-up effectively covers the tiny opening.

Ann explained that she did it one ear at a time, wore a bit of a band-aid on the perforated lobe until it healed, always keeping a loop inserted. Then she tackled the other ear. This seemed to me a bit too complicated and too slow. So I proceeded to consult with jewelry shops which advertise ear-piercing. My first phone call was a disappointment. The lady said that once the earring goes on, it MUST be kept there for at least two weeks. A second phone call to another store was a bit more optimistic. The man said that the perforation would not become closed by