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Show HIES EHJSSNESS $L $k SUSAN THAYER j NEW IDEAS FOR OLD If you have ever visited the beautiful old houses of Nantucket,'' Portsmouth, and Wiscasset, New England, you've seen the treasures from China and the Indies that , the sea captains carried home to ! furnish their mansions. I was thinking of this when I saw some trinkets my neighbor's lieutenant husband had sent her from Australia and it occurred to could use to vary the size of our i rooms. And of course our men have al ready carried our ideas of cleanliness, cleanli-ness, sanitation, even baseball! to those far-away countries. But most important, I hope we can carry an understanding of the American, way of life to other lands. For I believe with all my heart that freedom, opportunity, democracy must spread through- out the world, if civilization is to survive. After all, isn't ours the only great system today that has stood the test of time; me that many a new idea will find its way to our shores through the boys who are serving in Italy and Burma, India and the Pacific. The brilliant colors of the Med-terraneani, Med-terraneani, for example. Those lovely Italan prints. And also the screens of the Far East, which we |