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Show EAllCAMIE(EIIIE KEITH WALKER, Route 4. St. Joseph, Missouri, says he has a pair of shoes that might easily fit the average family man. After finishing dinner one evening he settled down In an easy chair with the newspaper. He was tired and tills was going to be one evening that he was just-going just-going to relax. He had hardly settled in the chair, when his three year-old 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 gon tugged at his arm, wanting his daddy to play with him. Without thinking, he said, "You children go away and play with your toys; I'm tired and this is the first chance J have had this week to sit down and read my paper." About this time his wife called from the kitchen, kitch-en, "Don't bother Daddy; get awuy and let him read his paper." Suddenly he caught the disappointment in the ex- pression of his little girl. And ho us suddenly realized CAHNEGIK that In a few short years these children would neither need nor want him to share Uieir pleasures. He folded up the paper, took the book his little girl was holding and sat down on the Moor with the children to read them the story. He did not stop at one story, but read to two very pleased children tour or five stories. About this time his wife finished her kitchen chores and came into the living room, surveyed sur-veyed the situation and stretched out on the divan. After the children Crew 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-sters 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 being cross and disagreeable. Needless to say, he felt much better after considering the feeling of the children, for they were Just as hungry fur the companionship com-panionship of their father aS he was tired from the extra work In addition, his wife had a chane for some early evening relaxation that to mother is a real luxury. |