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Five-hundred newspa- pers in 20 different coun- tries carry Heloise's col- umn; her tips also can be Heloise found in Good Housekeeping magazine, on her Web site wwwheloise.com and in a monthly chat at vvvvw.women.com . Heloise's mother, a housewife mar- riedto a career Air Force man, started the column in 1959. The current Heloise, 51, earned a bachelor's degree in business administra- tion and math. She had signed a con- tract to teach junior high school after college, but started helping her mother with the column in the early 1970s. When her mother died of lung can- cer at age .58 in 1977, Heloise had 24 hours to decide about taking on the col- umn. "I had no intention of doing it," says Heloise. "I saw how hard she worked. "She didn't handle stress well. She loved what she did,. but I thought, 'I don't want to do that.' But when she died, the syndicate called and said, Are you going to take over? We have to get out a press release.'" Heloise agreed to write the column, but on her terms. She wouldn't do a book, a speech or a TV appearance until she felt ready. "You can't just step into Lucille Ball's shoes or Judy Garland's shoes," she says. "My mother was a force. She was flam- boyant." The original Heloise used to use green and blue hair spray to match her outfits. By contrast, while the current Heloise has grown comfortable with books, speeches and TV appearances, her flamboyance is limited to her natu- rally silver hair, oversized doorknocker earrings and the stack of diamonds and sapphires she wears on her ring finger. She's been married for 21 years to David Evans, a plumbing contractor who built their San Antonio home; they have a second home on the south Texas coast. Heloise shares few details of her per- sonal life other than the fact that she grows antique roses and likes to cook, time permitting. Perhaps most revealing is that a housekeeper is paid to clean her home three times a week. "I'm a working woman. I travel. I'm gone. I'm not there. There's no way I could take care of my house by myself," she says. The column is now 43 years old. Her work, says Heloise, has shifted to a kind of life-skills training. Where the column once spoke to women who knew that "a handful of flour" meant a half-cup, it's much more instructive these days. Heloise Inc. employs five full-time staffers in San Antonio, another in New York and two part-time researchers for special projects. When hints from readers come in, the team looks to see what has appeared in the past two years. In many cases, research will reveal a new wrinkle. A reader recently asked about adding bleach to white towels. Heloise's staff discovered that there are new, specially treated fabrics that will turn yellow if bleached. Whether its researching new coun- tertop materials or figuring out the best way to care for fax machines and corn- puter printers, it's all problem-solving for Heloise. Her contacts include a myr- iad of consumer councils and govern- ment departments. But her mantra, like her mother's before her, is to keep things simple. While there will be no Heloise Air Freshener, she allows that there might one day be a book about her mother, who she describes as "creative and smart and savvy and daring. "My mother deserves all the credit," Heloise says. "She was so ahead of her time. She sprayed her hair blue in 1960 and she was married to an Air Force colonel who was stationed at the Pentagon. She was phenomenal."