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Show In this day and age of inflated prices the biggest bargains are still in the supermarket. We particularly enjoy the fruits that are. available. True, it seems that almost anything is available most of the year, anymore. Still, there's a special treat in getting get-ting vine ripened fruit, before be-fore your garden starts to produce. o We particularly enjoy the watermelon. At least to us, it seems to be particularly delicious this year. Ye ol' Ed manages to dispose of one a week all by himself. You can tell a lot about people from the way they eat watermelon. We spent an enjoyable 30 minutes recently re-cently watching a group at a watermelon bust. There's the robust who take a big bite and spit seeds like a gattling gun. The fastidious who remove every seed before taking the first bite. The dainty who pinch off a small piece from their slice and then lean way over to take a bite, while juice from the slice runs down the other arm. There are many others, the target shooter, who prac -tices his art with one seed after another. The conservationist conser-vationist who gnaws clear to the rind, the sportsman who throws first at trees, then at people. The ecologist who just picks up after the others, the basketball player who perfects his shooting skill putting his rind in the garbage gar-bage can, and the gourmet who eats only the heart. There's the preservationist preserva-tionist who collects the rind for watermelon preserves, the politician who just picks seeds and talks. There are those who prefer a fork and some a spoon. To some it wouldn't taste right unless they had it ear to ear. o Being somewhat a connoisseur con-noisseur of watermelon, we've tried every possible way of eating them. Raised in Southern Iowa where local farmers planted melons through several acres of corn, and then challenged the town kids to find the patch, we learned to eat watermelon cautiously. About July 4th the first melons would arrive from A rkansas and Southern M is - souri. Later when Muskiteen melons began to hit the stores, everybody hadmel-ons hadmel-ons as the price reached a reasonable 2? to 3? a pound, for those melons from the banks of the Mississippi. Of course, none could surpass sur-pass the moonlight raids of the local patches in Septem -ber and October, even with the threat of a load of rock salt. Later we lived in Herm-iston, Herm-iston, Oregon, famous for its vine -ripened watermelon. But we enjoy watermelon even more now. The supermarket super-market begins to supply us in February and March and the supply is steady into late fall. An unthought of bargain just a few short years ago! o Another Monday holiday has came and went. It wasn't bad enough, the politicians changing most of the holidays holi-days to Monday, so they could get more long weekends. This year the calendar is working against us, too! Thanksgiving is the only holiday that won't be observed observ-ed on Monday this year. All the rest fall on Sunday or Monday, naturally, or by government decree. Thanksgiving is our favorite favor-ite holiday anyway. It's the time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. Harry Truman, when President, once tried to change the holiday from the fourth Thursday in November, Novem-ber, but after a couple of years, it was changed back by the legislature. It, along with the New Years, July 4th and Christmas, are the only holidays now exempt from government interference. interfer-ence. -0- This week's 'Beautiful Person' was submitted by Barbara (Mrs. James) Mayer. May-er. She is MRS. THEMAN WALKER. Barbara says, "Mama has never lost her thoughtfulness and compassion for others, even though she has suffered suffer-ed for years from the pain of arthritis. She has never lost her faith in God, and is an unending example to others oth-ers who suffer from less severe and temporary illnesses." ill-nesses." A 'beautiful person', polished pol-ished by God, and held out as an example to all others, especially her family. |