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Show YJeicjlibor BOYD PIERCE OF BURLESON, TEXAS The column this week is for -jen. Hold on to your wife be-nuse be-nuse she will improve with ige. Some things don't improve juch with age but wives are ""jiceptions. The longer they are jum'ed, the better person they , jtcome. Of course this is not ' tie in all cases but it is in most. iA 10 year old car is about jeady for the junk yard. It's 5(loss is g 0 n e , it creaks and ' iq u e a k a , its performance is liulty and it costs too much to live it overhauled. Some men Mink wives are like that and ' Ijiey want to get a new model, put they are wrong. f Every year she gets better jnd better and more useful to Her husband. After 15 or 20 Ijears, she may need an occas-""onal occas-""onal repaint job but ske is !,!ertinly well worth it. After ,;I5 years a wife becomes an in- (iipensable woman. A wise hus-";ktnd hus-";ktnd then begins to treat her n a member of the family. He uen quits insisting that she rilute him whenever he comes i Mo the room. A mature wife has a lot of dvantages over the young - lighty bride. She may not look '- glossy but she has more under he hood. Her feet get tired as Hi as yours do but she doesn't NJniand to be taken out every Piter night. The buttons she : ..W on stay on longer. When lie occasionally has to carry ;it the garbage she doesn't SBn a federal case out of it. W- no longer yells about go-IB go-IB home to mother if you over-jo over-jo anything. Her biggest threat I I'll tell your doctor on you." lit meals she fixes don't taste r a misprint in an Armenian book. The old girl knows W dishes make you happy M which give you heartburn. no longer whines, "you listen to me." Instead, I p and then, she'll even listen you. it takes a lot of time, fcuble and understanding for i: 'busband to take a flibberty-berty flibberty-berty young bride and turn into man's greatest master-Jp. master-Jp. A perfect wife nobly ; 'nned. 1t in what more rewarding "Mm can a fellow spend his ." y Re"ibrandt Peale is regard-38 regard-38 the first great American tra" painter. His portrait tat fge Washington is the j ,"n Popular and famous pic- . ( of the first president. I Ujp 1 Utah makes' makes |