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Show ME 9 IuJit 1, when Bernie and I are Sometimes second cup of coffee, she talks about The ore. My grandparents owned it when I was a child. I remember dimly the slanted sunlight across the old wood floors. I remember the tantalizing flavor oX the grocery department. I remember tileathery smell of the shoes. Mfa I remember, too, that I ran through The Store, filling my arms with toys and dresses and beads because my generous grandparents would sooner have mortgaged The Store than confess all these weren't really their own to give away. And Bernie talks about Mr. Hulin, whose kingdom was the cracker barrel and the pickles and the meats, and about her secret crush, Mr. Bunch, whose high collar rose above men's V f m r .v, , 1 lit? f i. m t e:.,f y " Vv O-f- suits. In those days in a sleepy Southern town, nobody in The Store was ever Orton or Hawkins. The salesladies -- who clerked .were always gentlewomen in reduced circumstances and they were always Miss Viney and Miss Ethel and Miss Laura. Grand mother was Mrs. Mac. When Mrs. Mac came pome trom market at St. Louis or New York, she brought with her bombazine and and soutache braid and great con- -' fections called millinery. If a customer deplored the absence of plumes over a wreath of grapes, Mrs. Mac's milliner trimmed the hat anew. Bernie, tlveir daughter and only child, was lovingly gowned and slippered in the largesse from The Store long after her marriage and my birth. Then, year by year, Mr. and Mrs. Mac grew older and their feet grew wider and 'gray came to their' hair and to the business. The Store died long ago in the depression, the" same year that "my grandparents began to die a little, too. I know the building is still there in the sleepy country town because i saw it again while passing through. is The old name, McClain-Coo- k, still visible through the faded paint. And I wish I had never found it ben-gali- ne. Bogs carit resist New Friskies a? i ! flakes flavor exclusive new plus to dog foods that just claim to look and smell like meat. Here at last is the real thing -- everything a dog food should be. No synthetics ... no false flavors to try to fool your dog. No artificial coloring to make you think you're really getting.meat Instead, Friskies gives your dog pure meat meal. With all its natural flavor nourishment. and aroma. All its natural meat-mea- l Say good-by- e Friskies alone gives you "flavor flakes,' too. Made a secret Friskies way, these flakes capture the flavor heart of selected corn, wheat, oats and all adds up to new mealtime magic barley!-I- t dogs go wild for! Tests proved dogs prefer New Friskies Meal as much as 17 to I . Scientific feeding tests at Friskies' own laboratories and kennels showed that dogs preferred New Friskies Meal as much as 17 to 1 over other leading dog foods. Tests proved, too, that Friskies Meal alone procon-ducte- d vides every food value dogs are known to need. Mixes instantly, just add water. We guarantee your dog will love New Friskies Meal -- or your money back!. FO R V A Fl I ETY feed canned Friskies or Friskies Cubes. Both are complete, fully nourishing - qualHyproduclsf,?m(arnation. Keep your dog frisky with yftilfd&! Family Weekly, November 29, 1959 11 MEWfri SKIES MEAI Lbokforthe big new packages I |