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Show ' : : v j .;. . Kiddies' Evening Story By MARY GRAHAM BONNER : : : : : The Sandwich Family The Suadwicli Sisters were talking. talk-ing. "Of course," said Sandwich Sister Sis-ter One, "we come frutu a good old family." "Not too old, though," said Sandwich Sand-wich Sister Two. "No, no," said Sandwich Sister One. "I don't really mean about our age the way you thought I meant It." "To be sure, we're not as fresh as some of our relatives are. I do not mean that In a slansy fashion, either. Some of our relatives are eaten when they're quite warm, but we're always saved a day as we cut better when made Into sandwiches then." "True," agreed Sandwich Sister Two. "Yes, some slices of bread are eaten when they're fresh indeed, but, 'as I said before, that isn't the way with us. But when I spoke at first of having come from a good old family I meant that Bread has always been thought well of and lias had the pleasure of a guod reputation for many and many a year. "Bread has been called 'the staff of life', and of course that means ; that we almost support life and lives and so forth and so on. Bread has been considered so necessary, so useful, so important. And while we're the Sandwich Sisters, still I we belong to the Bread family. , Sometimes, as is the way with many worthy and noble things, we become a little bit dull but then a jar of jam alongside or a dish of jelly puts us back on the same friendly footing with people." "You speak strangely," said Sandwich Sister Two, "for how can we be on the same footing with people when we have no feet? That U impossible." "Oh, I just said that as nn expression," ex-pression," said Sandwich Sister One. "When one speaks of being on the same friendly footing with people It doesn't mean that everyone every-one Is standing about on their feet. 1 I pill Quito a Plateful. you know. It means that everyone Is feeling at ease with one another and happy and comfortable and so forth." "Oh yes, oh yes," said Sandwich Sister Two. "Well, there are a good many of os," said Sandwich Sister One. "We're quite a plate-full, as yoa might say." "Yes, I might say that." said Sandwich Sister wo, "and It would be quite correct. There are certainly cer-tainly lots of us here, but I don't believe there'll be many of us left." "I am sure there won't be any of s left," said Sandwich Sister One. "They're expecting that even more than all of us will be eaten. There are ever and ever so many more out In the kitchen waiting to be put on the plate as soon as It la emptied. "And they're all being taken such care of out there having cold cloths put on their heads so they won't get too warm with excitement excite-ment I "Of course I suppose one reason Is that the people don't want the sandwiches to dry np but I like to think that it Is because they want to pay them so much attention. "But oh my, what a friendly family fam-ily we are I Here we are, friendly Sandwich Sisters and there are so many more of us, and there la Friend Lettuce here with us and we're Just as cozy, all of us together to-gether I "Our family has always been famous for - being friendly. We have ever so many different friends. There Is Peanut Butter, a great friend of the family's, and there have been lots of excellent friendships between the Tomatoes and ourselves for years. "Then the Jelly and Jam families have been very sweet on us, and there are the Chicken slices we've heen so friendly with as a family. Cheese has been a family friend, and so has Turkey oh, a Turkey Sandwich is something very superior, supe-rior, I can tell yon. "Yes, we've had lots and lots of friends and we've always been companionable. We've never had quarrels. Just suppose sandwiches should stnrt quarreling and you at your side of the sandwich, doing your part as you nrenow, should suddenly take It upon yourself to lose your temper and fly about In a rage. Well, there'd be no sandwich, sand-wich, that would be the result of that. We know that, so we each do our own part to make this sandwich, sand-wich, together with the work of Friend "Lettuce. Yes, the Sand-I Sand-I wtch family Is a friendly family ! nnd always has heenl" And the other Sandwich Slstei agreed. ( P. U'23. Western N'ewspaper Unlcn. |