Show Virus Flu And end The Silver Lining HELEN POHLMAN Its It's really too bad when mama comes down with virus virus virus vir vir- us flu When some other mem member member member ber of the family gets it they can can quietly fold up in bed and hardly anyone notices If It its it's father he takes sick-leave sick from work if one of the children chil chil- children dren they miss a few days of s school hool Both places can wait ait until they're well enough to return But when mama develops develops develops de de- de- de a temperature of and has to stay in bed a week to cure it that really throws a wrench in the works At first before the family recovers from th the shock of mama mama being down and out beds dont don't get made dishes sit unwashed not only in the sink but right on the table and dirty clothes lie in piles piles' wherever their owners hap hap- drop them But the tho picture is not entirely black as Y you you U shall see sec After mama comes home from the doctors doctor's office she goes straight to bed too sick I to care that it is beautiful fall weather outside that she hasn't any copy ready for the Clipper that week that the dishes from dinner the night bc before ore arent aren't washed From her sick bed she listens while the hum humdrum household sounds clearly tell her a lot is going on that tha t shouldn't be but she's too o tired to do any disciplining The refrigerator door bein being b opened then closed sister teasing her little brother the e splash of water in the bathroom bath bath- room roan sink where one of th the e children is sa sailing a boat the refrigerator door being closed dosed clos dos ed ed the scrape of a chair bein being g dragged across the kitchen the refrigerator door being h opened the crash of a dis dish h being dropped the refrigerator tor door being closed th the c tinkle of broken glass being I swept the refrigerator door open opening hog A week in bed at least the doctor had said until her tern was down to normal and find stayed normal for a I couple of days A week How were they to manage without I her so soo long The worst of f it it w was s. s the doctor hadn't any pill or shot to hasten its cure As far as the flu was concerned concern concern- ed they were still in the dark dads ages Nothing for it but lots lotsof lotsof of oC water aspirin and plenty of oC rest Mama in repeating this medical advice to her husband may ma have put a little lilUe more emphasis on the plenty of oC rest than she in intended intended in- in tended to Th The children mama thinks are so helpless The girls gills arc are 1 old enough but tout still cant can't make their beds neatly and the little boy who is past two still needs his bottle fixed and it l like hell he'll never give it up Her Iier husband will get tired coming coning home from work night after night to face all the housework too too- Especially Espee- Espee ally the dishes She wished d now the they'd d gotten a dishwasher h er cr for their anniversary instead instead instead in in- in- in stead of or that new vacuum t cleaner After After- all they liv livin live e in a dusty house but how hot howlong v long could they get along g I without clean dishes dishes' But a athe at atthe td t the time her husband had d thought a dishwasher too ex ex- extravagant extravagant for their budget She remembered knowing knowin g a family where the husbands husband's mother and grandmother ha had d all lived ii ir in the same house No matter in that family i ithe if f the wife got sick there were two other women handy t to o help out She wondered what wha t hes he's do if all three of those thos e women omen his wife wiCe mother an and d grandmother were ever to al alget allI all 1 get at the same time I I She bhe thought about It an and d |