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Dear Heloise: I had an important document that I needed to keep handy, so I put it on top of a pile of papers in my long desktop drawer. Minutes later, I went to retrieve it, but it was missing. Simply gone!
It took me a bit to figure out that it must have slipped over the back of the drawer and, of course, landed on the floor. But it was not there either! This desk drawer, unlike many, had a panel under it where things could get lost forever. Unfortunately, the whole drawer had to be removed to get underneath it.
Now that I'm aware of that panel, I'm on a quest to check under similar drawers in the house. Who knows what treasures are going to be found! — A Reader From Connecticut
CURSIVE SOUND OFF
Dear Heloise: I just read comments from a retired teacher in your column. I am going on 83 years old, and I am outraged that our local schools in Miamisburg, Ohio, did not teach my grandchildren how to read and write cursive. Their ages are now 24, 18 and almost 17. If I write them a note or anything else without printing it, they struggle to read it, even if I wrote very carefully.
I have so much family history that I am putting together, including very old letters and even some information on the back of ancestors' pictures. They will never be able to read them because of the stupidity of some so-called educators. I believe that local schools are starting to bring back the teaching of cursive finally, but the damage has already been done to my grandchildren.
Fortunately, many other schools across the nation did not subscribe to such foolishness and never stopped teaching cursive writing, nor phonics for reading. — Mary Carter, Miamisburg, Ohio
REMOVING STAINS FROM THERMOSES
Dear Heloise: I saw that using powdered dish soap helps to clean stains off thermoses, pots and pans. Another way to clean glass thermoses easily is to spray some window spray in the thermos, enough to slosh around, and it pretty much cleans itself. I've been doing this for many years. — J.H., via email