Garfield County News | 1928-10-19 | Page 2 | A Crazy Quilt

4 4 14 1 MH HH H H A CRAZY QUILT by air DOUGLAS MALLOCH i T THEY HEY do not mako make them any mere for quilts are cheaper tit lit the store tb than tin womans comans labor though a wife men alen think the cheapest thing ID life but now arid then a quilt la Is spread upon a quaint old walnut bed A quilt of those old days that I 1 am old enough to some SOMO woman sewed these points and squares into info a 0 pattern like lifes cares hero h a flannel that aps strong the poplin billat illat hut she bho wore so long A fragment from a daughters dross dress like her a vanished loveliness odd patches of such things as those these old garments and old we memories mories and what Is life A crazy quilt sorrow and joy and grace and guilt with here and there a square of blue for some old happiness wo we knew for so the hand of time will take the fragments of our dour lives and make out of lifes remnants as they fall A thing of beauty after nil all A 1928 douglas malloch