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Show ' I 1 . . . now f t , 1 rr is dusk. It has not been a good day. It has been a V turbulent day filled to the brim with my mistakes, my longings, and my forebodings. I am glad it is done with. I came here to my window to rest a while. I found a cloud. Nothing special. An ordinary at the edges, drifting as I cloud, white-curlam drifting. As I sat here, the sun touched the trees for the last time this day and left them. The night has begun to comfort the grass and soothe the late robin, homeward bound. The sky is deeper blue now and the cloud has ebbed across its darkening face.' Soon it will be gone. My eyes are tired. The night is kind to them. I think there 'is a young star across the meadow. It has been hesitating there, waiting for its hour. It's a very little star, not even bright But it is the first The moon will rise. I remember how it rises lush and orange in its fullness, slim and white in its newness. I have never known which is more beautiful, when it pours like liquid ed r ti 7 .a- " w - ,- - ; 1 . : I .V B. was just 20 and still in college when I Young Man" in our city for married an only child, I worried somewhat about how 1954, primarily for his work much "independence" we would have. But I owe a huge with our young boys. Financially, HI admit, the who- never once gave vote of thanks to a mother-in-la- w me advice on cooking, housework, or child care until I teaching profession still leaves much to be desired; but morasked for it In fact, she con- m old.Umer will ttart ally and spiritually, teaching suited me on new utensils ulking about Mr Crusc. "Six pays ' and pays. Roger L. boland decorating tricks, feet, four inches tall, he Lundquist, Principal, Senior stering my weighed 320 "pounds, but he High School, Moorhead, Minn. through those first months was nimble as a dancer and Reaseabraace of a floater of omelets could outrun anyone. . . how-to- p best He's remembered, Groadothr biscuits. To and bullet-lik- e enius uUer or a ever hu M off her role of gracious I do not collect rare glass and pooner, mother-in-lashe faith- - of toil tales; ana I am not a bird fancier, but a almost earn a man im will white owl has a place of honor fully took care of our first In Texas! Mrs. Formortality on my shelf. The owl is a subaby while I was finishing est Cruse, Austin, Tex, gar bowl and his head is the three courses of college Oo" 9 U work. Perhaps other moth- Twchf lid. Ilia kind is rare, I am told, ambitious young people but no collector would ever ers who don't get along with far down on want him, for he frankly their married children might place teaching voca. shows his age. Hair-lik- e cracks take a tip from my wonder- - UonSt prlmariiy because of the mar the smoothness of his feaE. H., ful mother-in-lasalaries. Teachin. how- - tures, and his eyes, once rosy Conn. Miljord, ever, offers a personal satispink, now reflect a cold, milky'' faction that I doubt is possible stare. Yet I would never part The Imaortal Ttiaa in other more lucrative fields. with him. The most interesting man I A teacher is sometimes the He was new, without fault have ever heard about out- -' only real friend a young child. or blemish, on my grandmothside of books, anyway was has. One little girl took our er's wedding day in 1849. He Forest Cruse music supervisor's hand and was one of her prized gifts, my father-in-laof Nacogdoches, Texas, who said to her, "I wish you were and she brought him with her had been dead for 20 years my mother." when she moved from KenA mother wrote me just be- - tucky to Missouri before the when I married his son. When my husband and I went to fore Christmas: "l am glad Civil War. Grandmother was East Texas on our honeymoon, you disciplined my son the never able to acquire many his family and friends all had way you did. lie seemed to lovely things, but she kept something to tell me about his grow up. It was the best those she had, including the Christmas present I will get" sugar bowl, and passed on fabulous father. 23 Even now, Our basketball coach was through her children a love years later, whenever we visit Nacogdo- - selected as "The Outstanding for the lovely. Her body has slept in a little pioneer cemetery for more than 60 years, but her memory lives on with me every time I look at the old white owl. L. F. D.f z - self-confide- nce flat-as-a-panc- ake w, 1 w, 1 w, , Wya-cond- tL, Mo. to Dktlt? Here is the system I have deA New Approach vised for keeping my weight down: When I set the table for a meal, I put a large dinner plate at each place, but at' my own place I set a small saucer. Then I keep telling myself one 'helping is all Tm going to eat I fill my little plate and eat slowly, so I won't finish before the rest do. By using a saucer, I can't put too much on my plate, and by eating slowly, everything's gone by the time I'm finished. The happy result is I can keep my weight down or lose a few pounds whenever I want-M- rs. Joseph A. Mullen, MariInd. on, Wo Toy $10 for Year Latter We welcome your views on any subject of general interest If tee print your letter, you tcill receipt $10. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request We rescrpe the riyht to edit contribution. Address Letters Editor, Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Chicago 1, 111 INCOUKACE TOUI CHILD TO IE INDEPENDENT! DAVY CtOCKETT: AMEtlCAS NO. HIGH, COLD. AND HANDSOME m North Mlci!q At., CMco I. tit. Leonard S, Dv5dow, Pubtitta Walter C Dreyfus, AttocUtt Publisher KrtmA, Editorial Director MeUnie De Proft, Food Editor William A. Fetter. Art Director Astociate Editors Robert Fitigibbon Regtna Gruts Ben Hal Levinson 1 FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAIINE Jerry JULY 10, Kiel lfJJ SUMMER SUITS FAMILY WEEKLY PATTERNS DRINKS (Recipes) SUMMER Sesso..... dream a little. Now it is quite dark. The trees are spilled ink on the sky and the dew has pattered across the lips of the leaves. I can hear music somewhere and the sound of voices, but time is still and waiting. It has not been a good day, but it is ended. Soon the moonlight will find me and I will forget the day and my eyes will close in the perfect gift . Sleep ... ft A tailor home frorrtK sea hat to be allowed kit moments of reverie and reminiscence. For hit was an adventurous Kfe. He rode the ocean roads to far-oplacet, carrying precious cargoes, passengers, and good will from port to port. He pitted hit navigational still against the wiles bT the tea in good weathef and foul. He it a wise old man who hat teen much of life. (Photo by John Mechling from FPG.) ff 7 II II W. RwtK ASHES by FIRST LOVE by lee.. William JUNIOR TREASURE CHEST edited by Marjorie GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 4 first star is painful But if you are tired when the day goes to sleep, then it is good to rest in the twilight and Are, 4 v. by OF THE WIDOW'S Uue .10 ; WITH A THE MYSTERY HEIO by Robert FHzgibbon by Altyn Rice N WORDS AIOUT MUSIC by Joey KITCHEN I by Gilbert P. through my window or when it tantalizes with its young elusiveness. It doesn't matter. It must change, too, like the cloud. It is good to feel warm and contented and loved at dusk, or it b a sad hour. If you are alone, even the last cloud is poignant even the 12 T. farrows IVt Ives Iraneon II ........14 ....IS Address alt communications concerning editorial features to Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago I, III. Send all advertising communications to Family Weekly, 17 E. 4Sth S New York 17. N. Y. Contents Copyrighted l?SS, by Family Weekly Magaiine, Inc., 17? N. Michjgan Ave., Chicago I, III. All rights reserved. |