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Show o n y fun nil Ju i " i I 179 North Michigan Avt., Chicago 1, III. April 18, 1954 Leonard S. Davidow, Publisher Ben Kartman, Assistant to the Publisher Walter r Dorothy Woolf, Associate Editor Melanie De Proft, Food Editor Vv 1 f v.. Osborne, Managing Editor D. Malcolm J. Fleming, Production Director 4. IN THIS ISSUE; Portrayal of the Resurrection hat over challenged the artist. How somo of the old masters have depicted the Death and Transfiguration is discussed by art critic Geoffrey C. M. Plampin on pages If there's a doctor in your 4 and 5 house, you'll understand "A Doctor's Wife Talks Back"; if not, you may be amazed to learn what the family physician's better half has to endure along with the Hippo-crat- ic oath (see page. 6) Perennials, of are the mainstay any garden, better perennials are every gardener's aim. Hints on how to attain them are on page 11, ... X y v. i ... ? r. . CONTENTS (XI EASTER IN ART as JusV" by Goffry CM. A DOCTOR'S Plampin 6 WIFE TALKS BACK by Ruth Hamilton Ash THE LITTLE ... ABOUT in all She girl in the wheel it sits chair. day long and never speaks. She is only Just able to raise her hand to her mouth to feed herself. Once she had masses of curly red hair. Now it's drab and lifeless and hangs in limp strands. She is ' only five years old. A tragedy? .... A happy miracle. same child who two years ago This is the suffered a ruptured appendix and lay, dying of gangrene. This is the child whose temperature soared to 110 degrees and whose parents were told by a kindly doctor that there was no hope. This Is the child whose soft red curls were burned by fever and who lay unable to swallow for eight months. When her weight finally diminished to 18 pounds, there was little left in the hospital bed except a fragile skeleton waiting patiently to die before it waked. ' That was two years ago, Today, the skeleton has begun to stand erect. The voice that was never to speak again is beginning to form words. The tiny outline of a body is cushioned in healthy fat. The sunken eyes hold laughter. A little girl has returned from death. The doctors are all of them amazed. Miracles do happen, I guess. The man who was given two months to live when he was 20 does diewhen he's 90. The soldier left on s v . -- the battlefield comes home after the letter - long ago announced his loss. I read about it all the time in the newspapers. A woman who was blind for 20 years wakes one morning and is dazzled by the sunlight. In the moment of extreme unction, a heart begins to beat again. The magazines Tare full of such storiesr ' VI Had Cancer and Lived." v "My Baby Returned from the Grave." Do they boost the circulation? Yes, indeed. But they're true stories The scientists cant explain them. It's all a matter of conjecture, they say. Even ah expert can't be sure that death has entered the examination room or put his hand on the hospital bed.-- Arid these new drugs, say the skeptics, are really working wonders. But they, call them "miracle" drugs, don't they? .Miracles haven't stopped happening. This is a world of magic, of the unseen become visible, man borne like a bird, the atjom smashed with a reverberation heard across the continents. The last miracle was not on the morning the, stone, was' found rolled away from the sepulcher.1 The last miracle is still to come, and its promise lies in every sunrise, in the light of every star. And, best of all, in the laughter of a little child in a wheel chair who will live and one day walk happily ever after. t .... , 7 WE VOTE FOR THESE (Recipes). TRANSPLANT FOR BETTER 11 PERENNIALS 12 TRAPPING THE DESERT TERROR CROSSWORD TENSION CAN RELAX FAMILY WEEKLY THE SINKING PIGTAIL 13 PUZZLE KILL PATTERN. OF SOFTBALL .14 YOU. . .. 15 THE SULTANA LEAGUE.. 14 .... 15 COVER: This old master depicts the meeting of Christ with Mary THE 5 iiiiii Mm Magdalene at the w Resur- rection. The original, by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel, is now in the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. Other religious paintings are reproduced on pages 4 and 5. Address all communications concerning editorial' features to Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago ljJI. Send all advertising communications to Jofwi Kilmer, Advertising Manager, 237 Madi-s6- n Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Nom and dtscrlplions of oil characlcrt In fiction article in thi magaiin stories and are wholly imaginary. Any nome that happnt to be th torn os that of any person, living or dad, U nHraly coincidental. Contents COPYRIGHTED 1954, by Family Wetkly Magasine, Inc. All rights reserved. FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAZINE APRIL 18, 1954 - |