Friend May Soon Kick Up Her Heels

For a friend who likes high-heel, ankle-strap shoes, Fay Sutton of Orange would like to find something in a Size 4 1/2-5 wide. Can you help before the shoe is on the other foot, or will Sutton feel like a heel because all our readers are strapped for ideas?

Sam Fuentes of Los Angeles is looking for something called Freeze-Sleeves, which keep beverages cold by operating on the blue-ice principle. So far he has been following a cold trail. Can you help before Fuentes is blue in the face, or will this be a quest he might as well put on ice?

For traveling in out-of-the-way places, Nikie Williams of Manhattan Beach would like to sink her teeth into a battery-driven toothbrush. Can you help before Williams is completely breathless, or will the possibility of having a few more holes in her head give her something to chew on?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Elaine at (213) 296-0611 is looking for a lightweight (two pounds or less) wall lamp, also known years ago as a pinup lamp. Please help by pinpointing a source, so that Elaine can once again see the light. . . . Mrs. Levey at (818) 991-9009 needs the meat-grinder attachment for a 20-year-old Dormeyer Model No. 4201 food mixer. Please let this be some food for thought and help Mrs. Levey grind it out again. . . . Betty at (213) 838-1114 is trying to locate a large, round jigsaw puzzle that consists of three red geraniums and is difficult to complete; she last saw one a number of years ago. Please don’t make Betty see red, because she’s already puzzled. . . . Mrs. Jerry Polzine, P.O. Box 5053, Anaheim, Calif. 92804, needs the rules for a Rummy-O II game that she bought at a yard sale. Please be game, write to her and see to it that she plays by the rules.

Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for one-time items and for products no longer available in stores. And you must give us written permission to publish your telephone number, so that others may contact you directly.

For Edna O’Connell of Los Angeles, who was after dried bergamot for use in blending teas, we have a s(blended) source. Mary Madsen of Lake Havasu says the Indiana Botanic Gardens, P.O. Box 5, Hammond, Ind. 46325, (219) 931-2480, lists bergamot in its catalogue.

The Lancaster reader who was looking for rough-textured silk shirts may have to keep her shirt on a little longer. Our only source came from Sheilagh Hall of Brawley. Hall says a catalogue put out by Royal Silk, Royal Silk Plaza, 45 E. Madison Ave., Clifton, N.J. 07011, lists 70-gram soie de Chine silk shirts for $36.

B. Berman of Hollywood, who was looking for a wheel-equipped, cloth shopping bag that can be taken on a bus, may have to take a bus to get what she wants. Our only local source is the Saugus Swap Meet, which is held every Sunday; Lorraine Mason of La Crescenta says she has seen these bags there. Mrs. Herbert Schreiner of Honolulu writes that the ABC Discount Stores and Woolworth sell them, with the average price around $12.

Our other sources are all mail-order firms: 1986 Holiday Shopper, P.O. Box 1, Madison, Wis. 53701 ($19.95 plus postage), from Mrs. E. L. Masthoff, Santa Barbara; Joan Cook, 3200 East 14th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33316 ($22 plus postage), from Elizabeth Horberg, Los Angeles; Hanover House Unique Merchandise Mart, Building 2, Hanover, Pa. 17333 (on sale at $8.88 plus handling), from V. Eddas, Alhambra; Miles Kimball, 41 West 8th Ave., Oshkosh, Wis. 54906 ($30.59), from Virginia Myszkowski and Paula Hassinger.

Other mail-order firms are Walter Drake & Sons, Drake Building, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80940 ($12.99 plus handling), from Betty Caldwell, M. Lakatos, Janice Petrocchi and J. Cook; also Carol Wright Gifts, P.O. Box 8503, Lincoln, Neb. 68544 ($9.95 plus handling), from L. Yegliss, Paula Hassinger, Dorothy Nelson, Louise Martin and I. Carrico. Carrico believes that Better Drugs may carry these bags also.

And then we heard from four readers who have shopping bags with wheels and might just let them go; a stamped, self-addressed envelope will start things rolling.

Herb Hain cannot answer mail personally but will, space permitting, respond in this column to readers who need--or have--helpful information. Write (do not telephone) to You Can Help!, You section, the Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles 90053.