Show Your Baby and Mine Be Good to He Dyad Really leally Deserves It By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED I 1 feel sorry for dad Even Fathers Father's day was sort of ot otan an thought after-thought cooked up so dad wouldn't feel too left out of ot things But Its It's never had quite the sentiment of Mothers Mother's day Just as dads dad's role In Jn the f family so often gets the laughs Instead of the sentimental tears We Ve wonder why Of course dad doesn't go down into the depths as it were to bring forth the precious baby But he bears all the economic burdens of keeping him well fed and clothed and educated from that day on And theres there's nothing funny about this business of sup- sup a family sending children children chil chil- dren to doctors and dentists putting them through nursery school and camps and college shelling out the salary checks as fast as they come in A mother can skimp and save save but th the house is a shelter for her She isn't down In the thick of t tie e business world the prey of every contribution asking female organization organization organization or or- she isn't meeting the public in j shiny thread-bare thread suit luit thread-bare thread because mother and the children have t to be Clothed to keep up with the Joneses Dads are so often pictured as ogres clinging tightly to the family purse strings and only letting letting let let- ting loose with a pained yip But who keeps dads dad's rat credit ing full of Ps P's unless he sees to It that his salary check is made to cover the way all-way stretch of family expenditures And then dad gets shoved into the background The home reflects reflects reflects re re- mothers mother's personality The clothes he pays for make daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's personality glamorous The car he buys through the finance company gives class to sonny when he takes a girl on a date They all think they've done their part to ma make e. e dad happy when mother shows him the new carpets with pride or daughter pirouettes in front of him In n her new frock or sonny says Pretty Pretty Pretty Pret ty totsy our car And if it once a week mother cooks the humble stew kidney-stew he likes or bakes him a rhubarb pie with lattice work all the neighbors are sure to hear of the family's personal sacrifices to dads dad's peculiar pe- pe peculiar peculiar pe pe- culiar tastes And after dad has worked all week dragging home the bacon comes Sunday Hes He's long ago ago given given given en up golf because mother screamed so loudly at the expense ex- ex expense expense ex ex- pense of It It and her determination tion not to be a golf Now he spends his Sundays doing the dirty jobs no one else will tackle putting up and taking down screens varnishing the floors weeding the flowerbeds mowing the lawns cleaning the chandeliers chandeliers chande chande- liers Hers fixing that sticking bathroom bathroom bathroom bath bath- room door And when his bones are worn to an ache and his hands to a blister its it's time to clean himself up and take mother somewhere anywhere so its it's out of this house Just the place hed he'd like to be on his day of rest Yes Im I'm sorry for dad Sorry we can find only one day a year for a left-handed left appreciation of him and a chance to hand him hima a tie charged on the family bill well we'll wager Im I'm one who thinks one day In is poor payment for all the self-sacrifice self no less so because it Isn't advertised the worry the planning the day-by-day day la labor labor labor la- la bor which is the lot of all the average dads you and I 1 know |