Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Children Are Precious Harvest LIL and I were first married we had a lot of writes a husband from we had a gang of we had wedding present checks to fix us up in a nice darn Carter Neill goes on wore pretty we went off for summer well we had fun I It makes me mad to look at the old snapshots in her and the it's nine years since we've had any of I make twice as much but we never have a Do you want to know the I'll tell It's Patricia and 3 and we have six of Twenty-four meals a how's And enough cookies and chocolate bars and potato chips in between meals to set up a winter we had whooping cough in and the coughs stopped at We thought we were going to lose Lil has a washing bought with some of the thousand her father left and Babby's a swell But my kick is that there is never a moment of peace In this If it isn't from Patsy and Pen tearing things to Tom crying because he doesn't like his everyone asking if he or she mayn't have a pal overnight or go somewhere The big ones think we spoil the little and the little ones raise the roof if the big ones are going to a Saturday movie without By the Book bought a this harassed parent how to raise children the modern me lad fm Lil I simply can't handle that We don't go in for inhibitions and When Tom brought a bill from school and said he found I took it and Tom got When Babby set up a martyr complex and said she would not go to a party in her old Lil told her that was all she needn't She by the I took And she was the prettiest kid have a good-sized fruit and a shed I'm to turn Into a theater for them Thero good But sometimes I think I'd like Just a few weeks of the old freedom and the old and to see LU when she isn't possessed by anxiety for one or the other of the What's life worth if you have to spend every cent yc make for cough medicine and didy The writer of this Carter It a and I think I would love He it bursting with pride in hit four adorable little and hit two as what sane man wouldn't But maybe he was tired on the Sunday morning when he wrote and maybe the youngsters were raising the and maybe It was Carter and Lil Neill have engaged in the most Important business in the Of course it's a tiring and expensive and nerve-racking what else could it Of course It takes every bit of money they and the money is the least of But what a harvest they'll reap as these babies grow into lovely and they have girls and boys in the turning to helping them paying them back hours of happiness for every one of today's minutes of Growing up Is a painful But If every couple who married saw marriage as a time of growing a chance to be better and stronger and less selfish In the new what a world we'd There are a great many vocations and employments for women but Lil has the best of Years of rest are ahead for LU and And what will be one of the heartaches of those looking back to Just 1 u c b mornings as the one on which Carter me his tongue-in-the-cheek He and Lil will turn over thi photograph albums then with a longing backward look at the days they brought Kittens home from the hospital and Tom broke his leg and Penny strolled away and was lost all If anything in life Is worth the nursery is worth If anything in life fills the hearts of a man and woman with a joy that nc other earthly sensation when their children are about and the line of little faces up grinning over its knows he is |