Show i i M HH A CRAZY QUILT J 1 by DOUGLAS MALLOCH J HH anny do not mae them any mere for quilts are cheaper at the store than comans womans labor though a wife men think the cheapest thing in life but now and then a quilt Is upon a quaint old walnut bed A crazy quilt of those old days tint I 1 am old enough to praise some woman sewed these points ind squares into a pattern like alfes cares here Is a flannel that was strong the poplin that she wore so long fragment from a daughters bresg like her a vanished loveliness odd patches of such things as these old garments gir ments and old memories and what Is life A crazy quilt sorrow and joy and grice and guilt ith here and there a square of blue for some old happiness we knew for so alce hand of time will take the of our lives and make out of alfes remnants as they fall thing of beauty after all EX 1323 douglas 0 |