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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 1989 (Opinion In the shampoo line alone the bathroom looked like the aisle from your neighborhood drug store. We had shampoos for oily scalps and dry sealps, for colored hair and permed hair, sitting beside conditioners designed for the same conditions. And then there was a wide assortment of junk to spray and rub onto your hair, as soon as you had it clean, making it instantly dirty again. Since we were in Florida, we also had enough sunâ€"related lotions to sink the entire Canadian navy, nuclear subs and all. We had preâ€"sun lotions and afterâ€"sun lotions and specialâ€" sun lotions and cooling agents and tanning aides and sun screens to no end. With two members of our party being teenage girls, there also was the equivalent of a couple of metric tons of makeup. There was blush and eye shadow and perfume and nail polish of every type and description, plus cans, bottles and tubes of all kinds of unrecognizable stuff. In all we had a bottle or two of something for almost any eventuality except snake bite. And by the smell of a couple of items, they would even have worked for that. The most amazing part of it all was the fact that when something really did happen, like somebody coming down with a real sunburn, we had to make an emergency trip to the nearest Piggly Wiggly store for something to treat it with. That something, of course, was good oldâ€"fashioned baking The five of us had oils and lotions, powders and potions of every kind and description. We had stuff to grow hair and stuff to make it disappear, sitting beside stuff to dry your skin, after you used the moisturizer. I mean it was so bad that if the airline had piled all our luggage on one side of the plane on the trip down, we‘d never have gotten out of Ontario. We‘d have just flown around in a big circle, because of all that weight. I came to this conclusion on my recent holiday to Florida. It happened one morning when I couldn‘t find the water tap, because it was hidden behind so much junk. And weâ€"a reasonably typical family of five with two adults and three teenagersâ€" had two sinks. s way deals in toiletriés. That‘s right toiletries. â€" Toiletries are to the ‘80s what plastics were to the ‘50sâ€"a growth industry. If you want to get rieh quick and stay that way, buy stock in any company tl::zl‘oduces. sells, delivers or in any other way deals in toiletriés. That‘s right toiletries. Another hot stock tip have some investment advice for you this week. I Your first inclination might be to mistrust this advice from a man whose personal portfolio consists mostly of recentlyâ€"purchased hoola hoop stocks. But trust me. I know whereof I speak. By Jim Merriam Vanity is the fruit of ignarance. It thrives most in subterraâ€" nean places, never reached by air of heaven and light of the Quality care for kids focus of Kids First Re: Jane Mitchell‘s letter, "Statistics show the need for daycare," dated March 29, 1989. Ms. Mitchell has made three factually incorrect statements in her letter: 1) She implies that our 1988 Statistics Canada figures on average incomes for Canada do not exist. They do indeed exist and can be obtained by calling Statistics Canada. We also have a copy in our KIDS FIRST library if anyone would care to see them. 2) She states that we are associated with R.E.A.L. women. I have obtained permission from Gwen Landolt of R.E.A.L. women in Thorndale, Ont. to make the following quote: "Kids First is not associated with R.E.A.L. women." 3) Mms. Mitchell misrepresents the position of KIDS FIRST when she alleges that we are antiâ€"all kinds of things.: Our position has always been that government funding should be nonâ€"discriminatory. Any funding to assist parents with raising children should be based on the economic needs of the parents â€" not on the basis of where children are cared for or where parents work. KIDS FIRST wants Quality Care for Kids. The only things we are against are child care arrangements which do NOT put the need of the children as a high priority â€" a We feel it unfortunate that Ms. Mitchell refuses to have any dialogue with KIDS FIRST. Women should work together to more our society a better place for children. KIDS FIRST is trying to provide a political voice for all parents who are, or who would like to, spend more time at home with their children and a political voice to all taxpayers who want an equitable, fair system of child care assistance which gets our tax money where it is needed. We welcome anyone interested in knowing more about KIDS FIRST to come to our next general meeting on Apr. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Rinkâ€"inâ€"theâ€"Park. The guest speaker will be Robert Brown from the University of Waterloo, Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science. The topic will be "Homemakers and the Canada Pension‘". Women should be respected for whatever choices they make in life. Fullâ€"time homemaking, volunteer work in the community, a career in either traditionâ€" al or nonâ€"traditional occupations â€" all of these roles are important to our society and women want them to be recognized as such. This respect should be reflected in social polices, tax laws and acknowâ€" ledged by the citizens of our country. e goal that we assume to share with Ms. Mitchell. A person who claims to be in a role of leadership should have the common courtesy to get her facts straight. It is O.K, to criticize. It is NOT OK to publicly misinform. "ts l Ki Angela Vieth Waterloo wl