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Show PJZ Veil WcRC SAVING. ... when, i retire, I'm going to . t I xjsxd lk ' to think my parents were indifferent when they refused to accompany me to the shoestore for new shoes. Even in my tenderest years, when all my playmates were faithfully escorted by their parents, I made the trip alone. It was awful. I'd get embarrassed, and buy the wrong size; I'd let the salesman send me home with something I didn't want, or I'd get beautiful party shoes which blistered my heels after one wearing. "If only Dad and Mother would help me!" I often thought Now, years later, I know that they did. What I had thought was Indifference was care. Those were not just shoe purchases, they were decisions. My parents helped me to do my own thinking. Subtly, they taught me that I must be responsible for my own blisters Mrs. Allegro. UcBirney, Santa Barbara, Calif. A War Orpkas Nads H There is something about providing for little children not only loving them but giving them their daily bread that warms my soul When all four of our - children were married, our house was empty and I felt lonely. Recently, our attention was called to the desperate plight of thousands of Korean war orphans. When we learned that it was possible to "adopt" an orphan by supporting a child in a Korean orphanage, we decided we wanted another child in our lives. We received a snapshot of Utile lad Ree I Oung, a nine-year-who lost both parents in the Korean War and who was picked up as a starving beggar a little, over a year ago. Now he is a healthy schoolboy in the Sung Ilei Won orphanage. Ree I Oung has written to us twice and at Christmas sent a sketch of a. Winter scene. IDs boyish expressions of gratitude are indeed . old teresting job, worth working at I thrill at the honesty of children and their ability not only to forgive but to forget I know that work is a great privilege. What is worse than having nothing to do? I no longer fear death. It cannot erase the memory of a loved one, nor keep me from living on "in someone else's memory. My uncertainty about a Higher Power has gone the way of most uncertainties of youth. Behind me are the foolish prejudices of childhood and youth. Ahead is a path enlightened by wisdom and tolerance. E. B. S., touching, and our affection for him deepens' every day. I hadn't imagined how this simple experience could renew the wellspring of parental love and also helptf meet a pressing need in a war-to- rn land. Allen Bowman, Marion, IruL Refection art 40 I have reached the age that holds more fear than 90, less hope than 100, and more fun than 20 I'm 40 and glad of it! I now know so much I couldn't have known at 20 or 30. I'm mature ready to meet life on its own terms. I know how to live with myself, and I'm learning how to live with others. I know that all of us have certain weaknesses and strengths, and their sum total can make or break us. I know that I must expect no more of my fellow man than of myself. I know that marriage is not a blissful state, but a vitally in ' on our front cover seems to b staring at the outside world with worried eyes. But even though it's big.' the world's not nearly at frightening as it was a generation ago, whan Baby faced a thousand dangers between birth end adulthood. For more on baby, don't miss "Babies Never Had It So Good!" on page 16. (John MechKngfrom FPG.J Tfttt U bby ITT Nor IREAK THOSE CHAINS ANO w Mkftlgee Ave., Cticege I, IIL Walter C Dreyfus. Associate Publisher lee Kertmen, Editorial Director .Melenie LIVE! subject of general interest 7 we print your letter, you will receive $10. 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Sand all advertising communications to Family Weakly, 17 E. 4Sth St,' New York 17. N. EContents Copyright IVSt, by Family Weakly Magaiine, Inc., 17? N. Mich igan Ave., Chicago I, III. All rights reserved. family Weekly Sfaooxtne, April 2t, vv G G i 'i J Trumtnsburg, N. Y. corJTCriTs: . Nigeria and be a prince. It shouldn't be difficult, even for an old lady. Nigeria is filled with princes and they all own storehouses crammed with alligators (dead) and ivory (deader). I know this because of the steady stream of letters I receive. I was terribly impressed by the " first one: "Most Honored Lady, "I beg to find your favor and have many gifts which I wish to exchange for shirts and shoes and fine things from America. I can send many fine piece in ivory and alligator. ; I - am, my dear lady, your obedient and humble servant, etc. "Prince Oolabwanayangli." That's a free translation from the original. However, I decided to mull the whole project oyer before lending my honored self to the exchange. Therein lay my salvation. Since that time, I imagine every prince of the blood in Nigeria has addressed his humble self to honored me. Tm not sure how I acquired the royal nod or how my esteemed U Ml It ;"-- " ' - X"e Mercury Hlms address found its way into dark- est Africa. It was not, I presume, Dr. Livingstone. I am sure that, if I had responded, rd have alligator perambulators by now and enough ivory to interest Liberace. But I shudder to imagine the state my budget would be in. Who knows but that todays Nigerian prince, properly encouraged, could yearn for a solid gold Cadillac? Nevertheless, it gnaws at me as the flower of my maturity unfolds. Nobody pays much attention to me around here. No salaams. No palm branches. I might just take one of the princes at his word and send him a tee shirt or a book of card tricks. But only in exchange for a correspondence course on how to acquire a princely old age in Nigeria. |