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Show CLEAR UP BASAL conGEsnon np An FASTER WITH Old Man Plants a Garden i; W spring I watched an elderly man dig a barren plot of ground so narrow it might have been a footpath if it hadnt been so close to a wall. Curious, I asked what he intended to do. Im digging a flower garden, he said with a quizzical smile. As the flowers blossom, they will remind me of the bloom of youth. As they spread their beauty, theyll remind me of the growth of life and all its fragrance. Even as they wither .and die, theyll remind me of my misspent years. Then he sighed and went back to work. The old man is dead now, but his flowers still thrive. The wall they beautify is a prison wall, and the old man was a lifer who spent most of his years behind bars. Warren G. Rowlett, Jefferson City, Mo. When I operated a motel near an Indian village in New Mexico, tourists often asked me if Indians believed in God or still clung to their old symbols. I usually told them this story: One harvest time my neighbors hired an Indian to help them put up the crops. At the noon meal on the first day, everyone started eating as soon as the food was passed everyone except the Indian. Asked if he wasn't hungry, he said, Yes, but I am waiting for someone to thank God for this wonderful food. Mrs. W. J. Currie, Orange, Calif. if r? f J o, Who's the Believer? O.Ar02&c ?, As You Were Saying. Bedside Gardens. Here is an idea for helping shut-in- s pass the time. Take a cardboard egg carton and separate the top and bottom, setting one half inside the other for reinforcement. Then, in the 12 individual sections, place some good soil and plant different seeds in each section. Ive given these bedside gardens to people of all ages, from 4 to 80, and all showed an intense interest in watching the various plants grow. Mrs. S.F.N., Tampa, Fla. 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He writes on planes, in hotel rooms, in night-clu- b offices, and he manages somehow to make a page come alive, whether he writes of the marriage of a movie princess or the murder of an Ohio housewife or the awesome spectacle of man against atom. He is not typical of his craft, except perhaps of its finest traditions. He is a d tall and man with a beer-sutwinkle in his eye, but there is a kind of elegance about him as though he might be confidante of both wrestler and royalty, as indeed he is. He lives in a hurry. Hes in a hurry to get far away from yesterday and far beyond tomorrow. Yet there is gentleness and Irish warmth in him and pei haps it is those qualities as much as his talent to tell the story of schmaltz and shill which give him his stature. Such a man ought to be more cynic than leprechaun, but experience has given him the wisdom beyond cynicism and the right to dream the rainbows end. 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