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Show ... HOW SEDIMENTAL J T- I No, that's not sentiment - wn am. with adenoids. That's me with debris. 1 cleaned out a seldom-use- d drawer last week and It was like an exploration into inner space. I found tile corsage my first love brought for the dance, but I like botanical a more looked it specimen from the , . tomb of Tutankhamen. filled box with And there was the button trophies, a m cavalier a withered the khaki, monogfammedhaiefrom wild flower left over from a picnic in the park, and a faded watchband from some unsung swain whose name escapes me. I "was housecleaning. I was filled with the spirit of soap drew jnywastebasket close to the drawer ' and began. The snapshots of the trip to Backbone Park? Well, it was fun, wasn't it? And there's the bluff where we lost the lunch basket. And isn't that blur the fox which came V T" The pockmarked pin my grandmother gave me when I was 10? How I loved it. 1 wore it even on my party dress. The locket Jimmy gave me for my 15th birthday? It was so homely X almost cried. It's tarnished and the chain is broken, but . ' And here are the crayon sketches Annette made for me. They're so bad I never even had them framed; but, .. high-scho- ol i across the clearing? Darned if it isn't. after all, they were her first and she gave them to o me. I remember how proud she was. The bathing suit I wore the summer I met Glenn? It's all faded and I'm sure I'd never be able to squeeze elbows and knees, but Glenn JntrfiwiFrwas$o-thiii--al- l r "thought it I cleaned out the whole drawer. I put in fresh paper and I closed it carefully. I don't know when I've had such a good time. And I didn't throw a single thing away. M ds.L 0. 0 Earing Galloway ribbons and flowers. Suddenly the wind snatched it and sent it rolling down the street I could see it whirling merrily along, but before I could race off in hot pursuit, a car came heading right toward it. I was sure it would be completely flattened, and I wished rd worn a scarf. As you were saying , Zf 7 7W" J To my MAtt HQVJ TO F-- stopped and 1 DCAPPZLAR - living forces us to go at such a constant pace that nearly every person is wound up like a spring. Everything must be done in a hurry, even our thinking. This has caused many of us to develop an unconscious, method of doing little things. Actually, the little things in our Uvea are what make us efficient or inefficient, happy or unhappy. -- I have found and practiced a little trick that works. Haven't you felt the spring in you so tight at times that when you start to do a simple thing, it just won't, work and you want to throw, it about as far as possible? Tour house key will not go into the keyhole or the lid for the peanut- Duller jar won t xxt even tnougn you know it's the right one. These things, inconsequential as they may seem, have happened to me so often that Tve felt there must be a way to control my haste and my temper. Now, every time I find myself so tense that my fingers seem to be all thumbs, I don't count to ten but simply take a deep breath and ask God to help me do the job at hand. I really seem to relax, and the problem that was so irritating almost does itself. Mar jorie Hawks, Sacramento, Calif. Present-da- y ahnost-hhmderi- ng Chivalry bat Dead Tet It was a warm but windy Sunday afternoon, and the business section of the town was deserted I was standing on a corner wonder-in- g what to do while my husband went to see someone. I had on a new Spring hat bedecked with S tiy"Bhnwnt the car the driver got out. He rushed to grab the hat before it started on the next lap of its journey to destruction. Then he walked over to a forlorn and wind-blo- wn me, bowed gracious- ly, and asked, "Is this your Sun- day bonnet?" I thanked him and decided chivalry still lived' Mrs. Jessie Dyar, Cuter, S. D. Ism Wlsdoa of Yoatt After rearing four children, I am inclined to believe the remark, "Kids know too much nowadays." The truth of it was vividly impressed on me a few weeks ago by my ld daughter. She stood in the front yard waitoft-hea- rd seven-year-o- papering for the who sauntered toward our boy house with a pal of his. He stopped near her and, for the benefit of his pal, remarked ight-year-old toughly, "Why doncha wait in the house where ya belong? Your paperll get there!" Then, with a sneer, he dropped the paper at her feet and swaggered away. Just as I was about to enter the scene with a hot reprimand for the "toughie," my daughter turned and spotted me. Quickly she put North Michigan Are., Chicago I, in. Leonard S. Devidow. Publisher .Welter C Dreyf. AmocmM hbikkor Kertman, Editorial Director MoUrna Da FrofOood Editor"" William A. Fatter, Art Director Associate Editors tobert Fitzgibbon Hal Levinson FAMILY WEEKIY MAGAZINE - Reglna Grass Jerry JUNE 5. Klein 1955 KATCHWORD THE CLUE CATFISH! by Ted KROSSWORD CONTEST. S8.000.000 film version all-ti- are Shirley Jones, a new-- " ...v. . 17 rv of the , . comer fo Hollywood, and Gordon MacRae. They're the two seated in the "surrey with the fringe on" t6pM on today's cover. You'll find a story about Miss Jones and the filming of "Oklahoma!" on page 19. OF THE TORN COMIC STRIP777t:77777 by William T.' Brannon FAMILY WEEKLY PAmRNSTTTTTTTTrrrr ed greats of the American theater, the robust musical soon be charming a new audience the millions of movie-goer- s. country's Starring in the Marek..... . . Well-Traia- Firmly established as one . ... Waco, Texas. . JUNIOR TREASURE CHEST edited by Marjorie Barrows. GOOD EATING. THOSE . re-re- ad SHRINE TO A COURAGEOUS LADY by Louis A. Eckl. . IS THERE A YOUNG GENIUS IN YOUR HOME? .777. . . . . 7T.T.T7; by Jerry Klein. COOLING DISHES FOR HOT WEATHER (Recipes) . . . . SUMMER FORECAST: COOL AND COMFORTABLE . .. ; rv-by Allyn Rice. .v.. .'. WAKE UP AND BREATHE! ....... ..... courtship picture he carried, but at least he now carries a picture of the newly reduced me. And it doesn't look too bad! Mrs. JR. The Father a finger to her hps and whispered happily, "llama, he likes me more Friends sometimes tease my husevery day. Yesterday he didn't band about being so handy at even speak to me." Mrs. E. R. changing and feeding our baby. fCregor, Rock Island,-R- X They say things like, Your wife sure has you well trained" My ' frost husband replies, "I think it makes laspirafiM s OM Photograph for a better boy." It's too bad more fathers don't feel that way. I have read and all the So often Tve heard young moth-e- rs articles about many magazine complain that their husbands dieting. I would read them, nod never help with the children. Babies really are fun, and not assent, and resolve to do somebreakable as some men think. thing about it someday. Someday never seemed to come More important, babies need both till one day I discovered that the parents during their tender years. Mrs. J. JFL, Nashua, Iowa. picture of me which my husband carried in his wallet was not of the present-da-y me with all my We Pay $10 for Yor Letters excess pounds! No, it was of a We welcome your mews on any thin, trim me as I was when we subject of general interest If toe first met. print your letter, you wUl receive That did it I decided to "pic$10. Letters must be signed, but ture myself thin." I dug up all names ictiZ be withheld on rethe slim pictures of me I could quest. We reserve the right to edit find and pasted them up all over contribution. Address Letters Edthe house. With such a goal beitor, Family Weekly, 179 N. Michfore me, I couldn't miss. igan Ave Chicago 1, UL ........ X7J I never expected to look quite as thin and young as I did in that 17 18 BIG BROTHERS TO KIDS IN TROUBLE by Hal Levinson. . OLD SURREY ON A NEW ROAD by Peer J. 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