Show i 1 I I 1 I I I Tr TT KEITH WALKER Route 4 4 St St. Joseph Missouri says he has a pair of l shoes that might easily fit the average family man Alter After finishing dinner one he settled down in an nn easy chair with the newspaper He was tired and this was going to be one evening that he was just going to relax He had hardly settled In the chair when his year three daughter came to him with a book and asked him to read her a story Almost at the very same time his sixteen months old son tugged at his his his' arm aim wanting his daddy to play with him I r- r I Without thinking he said You children go away t tand and play with your toys Im I'm tired and this is the first chance I have had this week to sit down and read my paper About this time his wife called from the kitchen kitch en Dont bother Daddy get away and let him read his paper Suddenly he caught the disappointment In the expression expression ex ex- ex of his little girl And he as suddenly realized CARNEGIE NEGIE that in a few short years these children would neither need nor want him to share their pleasures He lIe folded up the paper took the book his little girl was holding and sat down on the floor with the children to read them the story He did not stop at one story but read to two very pleased children four or five stories About this time his wife finished her kitchen chore chores and came into the living room surveyed surveyed sur the situation and stretched out on the divan After Arter the children grew tired of reading we spent the next half hour wrestling in the way only a father and his children can enjoy When bedtime came he helped put two tired and happy little youngsters young to bed That evening turned out to be a very happy one but it would not have been had he let the children worry him into b being boing cross and disagreeable Needless to say he felt much better belter after considering the feeling of the children for they were just as hungry for Cor the companionship companionship companionship com com- of their father as he was tired from the extra work In addition his wife had a chance for o some early evening relaxation that thatto thatto thatto to mothers is a real luxury |