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Show View from the Top of the Stairs We groan at glossy photos showing Those bedrooms keyed to teen-age growing, Those sharp and groovy sanctuaries, Designed by dreamy visionaries, By decorators, so unknowing, That records all are neatly racked, The books and magazines are stacked, All clothes obediently hung And nothing’s ever dropped or flung. A room one could show with pride— Andtotally unoccupied. —Betty Isler QUIPS AND QUOTES “Honey, I’m sending you a box of cookies,” a soldier’s wife informed him ina letter to Vietnam. When a week passed without the arr_/al of the box, the soldier, who prided himself on his tact, figured it would reach him any day, so he wrote his wife: “Those were the moet delicious cookies I ever ate.” Two weeks later the wife explained in a letter that the cookies had been burned in baking and that she had never sent them. “Who else,” she demanded, “is sending you cookies?” —Daniel Revello When women play cards, they care less about a good hand than a good earful. —John Shotwell A woman walked into a buteher shopand said to the butcher, “That chicken I bought from you yesterday had no wishbone.” The man behind the counter answered, “Madam, our chickens are so contented that they have nothing to wish for.” —Dorothea Kent Whistle while you work, and you'll make a nervous wreck out of everybody else in the office. —Dan Bennett A father lost his temper and, shouting at his teen-age daughter, angrily demanded to know why she had called her girl friend and then had not spoken a word for half an hour. “She told meto hold the phone,” was the teener’s explanation. “She's having dinner.” —A. T. Quigg Moment of Truth Evaluating her, he thought, So brilliant . . . so profound . . . A conversation never could Be dull with her around. She read him like a book. She and chose her words discreetly. “Do tell me more about yourself.” She even said it sweetly. Stone “Oh, good morning! What can we do for you?” Family Weekly, June 29, 1969 9 |