Show i J JUST SUPPOSE for a minute Suddenly the house is on fire Youre You're there alone You have only a few minutes to get out What shall you take with you t Happens every day somewhere somewhere somewhere some- some where to somebody Just like you Look around you right now Get out out out and take something youre you're anxious to f save Very first of course and naturally the kid kiddies dies if any Then what I The piggy bank A vase of paper flowers The picture of your mother YEARS AGO we had a drill here in the office e of what must go out in case of fire and explosion and sudden exit Nobody Nobody Nobody No No- body here now probably who went through the drill Wonder r what Id I'd grab Probably the most important file tile last Would you have enough wits r Ir about you to snatch up the family silverware Heirlooms which cannot be replaced by insurance money The old old Family Bible Grandmothers Grandmother's rocker and spinning wheel The family genealogy Or would you think of these things later when you couldn't get back in the house MAYBE SOMETHING invaluable invaluable invaluable able in bittersweet memory like dike j i An old pair of baby shoes A pink silk nightie Old letters tied of course with blue ribbon Blue pajamas A class ring on a neck- neck chain You must think fast Youve You've been to the phone to call the fire department you have haveS I S screamed FIRE FIRE out the front door Now be sensible save something from tion Stop spinning around looking looking looking look look- ing about you picking up something something something some some- thing and putt putting i n g it down listening with desperation to the crackle of approaching flames names What shall you take The picture off oU the wall The chair upon which you were sitting Your mink stole but its it's insured The set Too heavy An armful of books ACTUAL CHANCES are ac according according according ac- ac cording to the statistics you'd grab the first thing at hand and run and get outdoors and throw it down in disgust At our house years ago in Iowa we had a fire The neighbors neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors screamed at My Lady Fair Louise that our roof wason was wason wason on fire ran all the way up to the attic grabbed something valuable and ran outdoors She was standing there holding it when the F Fire Fir i r e Department pulled up and put out the fire It was a torn smashed half-smashed parchment lampshade Well how about you you But hurry hurry hurry |