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Show 179 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, 1, May 9, 1M4 III. t f: febfisher Leonard S. Davidow : v Pubaher Ben Kartman Assistant to tho i - ... , Assodato Editors Robert Fitzgibbon RegtnoOrtJSe I: ': : Jerry Klein food Editor Metanle Da Proft ' -- Art Dirttor William A. Fetter IN THIS ISSUE . . . Mr. Dorothy Houghton Rod Oak, Iowa is "America's Real-lif- e off Lady With A Torch" .to thousands off Iron Curtain refugees whose care she directs . . . "No Use to Worry the Children" tells the story of one mother's complete devotion to her family; if s a story that strikes a responsive chord in all our hearts this Mother's Day . . . How to modernize your outlined ih "Traditional to Modern-t- he Budget Way." X home-palnless- ly-is CONTENTS T TUUP TIME IN MICHIGAN 11. Uios JusV-- 1 AMERICA'S REAL-LIF- E A TORCH" ..... . . 3 "LADY WITH ............... by Ann Cottntl ft 4 - NO USE TO WORRY THE CHILDREN WISH I could paint. I know Just what I'd choose for my first canvas. I can't get it V out of my mind. , , I It was an restaurant, and the all-nig- ht specked clock yawned 4. There .was counterman in a an fly- - old apron doling out sickly fried eggs, limp bacon, and steaming chunks of fried potatoes. There was a teen-ag- e boy waiting for ham- burger steak, his pale face mearcxl wjth Up-- 1 boy wearing a fake jacket. There was a workman in stick. There was leopard-fu- r grease-coat- ed a Negro chalky overalls. drunk There was a handsome who raged impotently over the stale 'dough-hut- s. There was an old woman disconsolate over the dish of peas. There were two couples writing an anticlimax to a night out, the men surfeited with the women, the women brood- table. ing over the There was the Slavic face of the young man who came twice to the serving table. There was a kind, of ashamed hunger In his eyes as he looked around. "I can't get filled up," he said. 4;What else could I get to eat?' "You can read the signs," the old counterman muttered. "Bacon and eggs, fried potatoes, hamburger steak, peas. That's all we got It's all right there on the signs." slick-hair- ed , food-smudg- The deep-seyes waited to be satisfied from another, unknown aching hunger. The hands stretched for the hamburger. Faces passed the window, looked in and away. The slow feet entered and" slid rasp-lng- ly across the cheap metallic floor. Plates clattered and the kitchen gave forth a composite of burning grease, dirty dishwater, and human bodies. There was no purity except the flat light, no beauty except the Slavic face, no beginning and no end except as In the searching eyes and the moving hands. I guess it's Just as well I'm not a painter. ; There would be no way to capture on canvas the living death of it, the smell, the churning stomach-turnin- g pity, the midnight melancholy, the old, old dreams long since lost and buried in forgotten hungers. And I might break my heart in trying. et 6 by KoUh Harris 7 PERFECT FLATTERY FOR YOUR ROAST YOU NEEDNT BE A "STRANGER IN ......... TOWN" ' , A 11 . ' by ftufh Hamilton Ash HOME PERMANENT IN PERFECT SIX EASY STEPS'........!..... 12. HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR GARDEN 13 TOOLS CROSSWORD PUZZLE --rr r . , 13 . TRADITIONAL TO MODERN-T- HE BUDGET WAY . 14 15 FAMILY WEEKLY PATTERN COVE: Tim poiMi w cjvkkfy and we teen tka peaceful child? hood pktered en tie THE oet-gro- ed DVT II V VI V 1 VI wTWf. Kill t f. eta wa grew, wo trill he cradled in aw mothers loving thee oh ts -- and the in oors. Photograph by Otorgo Pkkew. Address all oooMnvnications concerning editorial feateres to Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Ave Chicago 1, IN. Sond all advertising commwnkations to John Gilnwv Advertising Manager, 237 Modi-to- n AveneeNew York 16, H. Y. end descriptions arocters In fiction arttGles in this tnooaZHi we wfcolly neaoeMM y . Any eomo heppA to be the o that of any perton'. livina or aeod, it entirerf coincidental. Contents COfYttCHTCD t954, ana eimi-tlctio- of all n ion Ai i - at reJIIlVy TTVfJmfy fnOyQnnVe fffw - VJf MAY 9, 154 i- a II - - rtfltleV fflvTrfOJ |