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Show SEEDS... California's eucalyptus trees grew from a handful of Australian seeds. Seeds of kindness will similarly enrich our personal lives. By WINIFRED WILLARD J SIMPLE thing for him to send from Australia by slow-sailing ship to his wife at home In California. Califor-nia. Just a handful of seedsl Small tiling to bother with. Big thing to reckon with In the long run. For this handful of seeds gave America all the glory of our eucalyptus, lovely love-ly In Its silvery-blue-green foliage. Its spicy fragrance always announces an-nounces Its presence. Nothing else smells like it By the standard of the dollar, eucalyptus loaves, sap, bark and fiber turn themselves Into good American money In the course of every year, for medicines, tonics, preparations that many thousands of us use without knowing how we got them. Any inventory of California's claims to pre-eminences-roses the year round, sun kissed oranges, sun-made sun-made raisins must reckon with the wealth of the eucalyptus and with the two people, unpretentious and unassuming, who laid that wealth in California's lap William Taylor, pioneer, preacher, practical man of affairs and his little home-making wife. She, too, looked Into the future, fu-ture, seeing what these seeds could become of beauty and blessing. Then she did the practical things needed to make them grow. The seeds her husband sent her were worthless until she planted thorn! Growth of a Friendship Two travelers on happy holiday In Florida stopping to call on a friend. It was a carefree, glad day under the palm trees beside the lovely lake In Winter Park. They wrote about it to one whose name was often on their Hps that day. Return mall brought a handful of seeds and Introduction to other friends away from home and restless for companionship. These seeds started start-ed to sprout. Passing days cultivated cultivat-ed them until a rare and lovely treasure of friendship grew that becomes more beautiful with the years. The auditor of an Important educational edu-cational group was a regular traveler. trav-eler. Traveling grows monotonous but offers a chance generally to catch up on rest and to Vead a bit This particular trip was long. The auditor was weary of figures and of balances that did not easily balance. bal-ance. She wanted to sleep away some of the hours on the train. Across the aisle was a little old lady, a stranger. She did not seem to have any promising seeds in her hands. She was nervous and restless, rest-less, a bit fearful. She seemed eager for companionship. It developed that she carried a heavy personal load and greatly needed a human safety valve. Most of us do. So the seasoned traveler put away her desire to doze and gave herself up to listening while the little lady talked. It was not much to do. But it cost its price. Seeds must have time to grow. And there is never any way to know ahead which seeds will pay to plant, which will grow and make our gardens gar-dens of life its loveliest. We have to take chances on them same as on everything else. These special seeds which the traveler sowed In a section sec-tion of the sleeping car grew to friendship that abided until that wistful little body who wasn't quite accustomed to trains and traveling slipped away across the Final River. Riv-er. Now tangibles are not the only values. Sometimes they are not valuable at all. But from the little lady to the traveler who wanted to doze and pass the time but who was willing Instead to be friendly and helpful, there came a gorgeous diamond dia-mond "because you were so good to me that day." Little thing, big thing, either view you take. Adventure in Companionship Queer things seeds! Sometimes we don't recognize them. Take that luncheon at Washington's Mayflower Mayflow-er hotel one spring Saturday. There were 300 guests. The First Lady was to tell us her ideal of women in politics. At my right was a friend. The seat at the left was vacant No sign of a seed. Then a pleasant voice asked permission to sit beside me. There was the seed unseen before, already sprouting. The days and weeks that followed saw it grow through comfortable companionship and congenial fellowship, fel-lowship, becoming a real adventure along the alluring lanes of friendship. friend-ship. However sophisticated we are, however far we shy away from show of sentiment, it yet remains that every forest oak was once within with-in the tiny compass of the acorn. That sounds old-fashioned but is as modern as today. Life continues to grow great results from seeds so small that often we fail to see or to believe how they can be important impor-tant to our purposes. When our spirits are negative, we sometimes cast these seeds away, losing what might become very precious to us. Not every handful of seeds produces a glory of eucalyptus. Not every train acquaintance pays the score with a gleaming diamond. That would put the whole business on too low a level. But every seed hold? 'npredictable possibilities. Copyright WNU Service. start out with the apron, then make the dress, and you'll get a real thrill out of the way it looks. Trim, Fitted Apron. Just five steps in your detailed sew chart, and presto, your apron is finished! It fits so slimly and smoothly over the hips that it doesn't add a fraction of bulk. It protects your frock thoroughly, front, back, and up top. And it simply cannot slip off at the shoul- ders, when you have your hands in the dough! Percale, gingham, calico and batiste, plain colored or in pretty prints, are nice for this design. Trim it with braid or bias binding. Slenderizing Afternoon Dress. 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