Show W! 4 " i Easier surer proteclion J intimatb! jfor your most irobiem : Tested by doctors PMod'n hospital clinics i 2 ! IXecentlv on our way home from New York to California AlltisepllC my daughter became ill and was hospitalized in a small town in Iowa for three weeks I stayed with her but shortly before leaving I had to cash a check to get some expense money I went to the local bank wondering what to do about identification in a strange town The teller glanced at me then at the check and without hesitation pushed the currency through the window Surprised I asked "Don't you need any identification?" He said "No I saw you in church last Sunday"— Mrs A C Paul Davis Calif (Protective germicide) now safer and surer Norforms arc em! 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We don't ask them to contribute but invariably when they see what we're doing they want to add their "two cents' worth" ng less-fortun- 2 Deodorant (Protection from odor) Norforms were tested in a hospital clinic and found to be more effective than anything it had ever used Norforms are powerfully deodorant eliminate (rather than cover up) embarrassing odors yet have no "medicine" or "disinfectant" odor —-th- ate When the bank is full the pennies are rolled counted and sent to some organization like CARE Most families say grace before meals but how many offer thanks after a meal? Wouldn't it be wonderful if families all over America said thanks with piggy banks? — Mrs Frank Fetter Poughkeepsie N Y Down here CHILD CHECKS UP ON NATURE in Florida the early moon is sometimes clearly visible before the sun goes down On one such afternoon recently our girl saw it and exclaimed "Oh Mommie! There's the moon It's up in the daytime" Then solemnly folding her hands in prayer she raised her eyes and murmured "Dear God You're making a mistake A five-year-- old Amen"— Mrs George Mulhall Jacksonville Fla We Pay $10 for Your Letters We welcome your views on any subject of general interest If we print your letter you will receive $10 Letter must be signed but names will be withheld on request We reserve the right to edit contributions Letters cannot be returned Address Letters Editor Family Weekly 179 North Michigan Avenue Chicago 1 III themselves 3 Convenient (So easy to use) Norforms are small vaginal suppositories so easy and convenient to use Just insert — no apparatus no mixing or measuring They're grcaseless and they keep in any climate Your druggist has them in boxes of 12 and 24 Also available in Canada A NorwJch producf i 3ZT LitLL J60 there ought to be a little more magic in the world Trusted by womtn Mail fhc coupon today FREE informative Norforms booklet Just mail this coupon to: 2 Dept Norwich Phannacal Company Norwich N Y Please send me the Norforms booklet in a plain envelope FW-79-2- Name (lLtASt State- - o from ugliness and pain When I was small my world was too It was encircled by the picket fence and my mother's arms But my mind was larger by far for now I am circumscribed by the shrunken sanity of maturity and I will never truly see again the horse with wings or the faery dust on the tulips in the twilight I am not a case of arrested development I do not long to return to the womb I love my world and I live in it comfortably and happily grateful for both the known and the unknown But I maintain I have paid a universal price for growing up Neither an adult nor a child has an easy time of living but blessed childhood carries with it delight to be surrendered at 7 The key to a world beyond vision and sound where rabbits wear waistcoats and a narcissus sings Is a shattered atom more wonderful? fmt Street City- - to- day I don't ask for miracles I believe in them and they have happened and will continue I mean magic of the kind a child understands and sacrifices only on the altar of permanent teeth and long pants When I was small I lay in the long grass and was not lonely I was surrounded in contentment by the unseen a world much too profound for delights of make-belieadults to understand I am sorry that I lost my magic A little more of it today would compensate I think for cynicism and brutality A touch of magic would turn little hatreds into great loves and bombs into bluebells If a man's enemies could vanish like dew in the morning and leave only the simple shells of themselves for him to smile on wouldn't it be wonderful? And how joyous a thing to be able to wish away fear and sorrow and to speak the mystic words which bring beauty ve Tested by doctors g Zone FAMIIY WEEKLY 179 N Michigan Ave Chicago I III Leonard S Davidow Publisher- - Walter C Patrick O'Rourke Advertising Directorr Melanie De Proft Food Editor William A Fetter Art Director V Brown Jack Ryan Honore Singer Jerry Klein New York Dreyfus Associate Publisher Ben Kartman Editorial Director Robert Fitigibbon Managing Editor Associate Editors: Kevin Address all communications about editorial features to Family Weeklv 179 N Michigan Ave Chicago Weekly !53 N Michigan Ave Chicago I III Contents Copyright 1957 by Family Weekly Magazine Inc I III 179 N to Family all advertising communications III All rights reserved Michigan Ave Chicago Send I |