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Show Fathers - pretty special people play catch with his sons he is the kind of a guy who will tell them all the ones they didn't catch were because of his bad throws and say "Gosh, I should have got that one" when.it was thrown six feet over his head. A father is the only one in the world that can watch his son go through the whole little league baseball season with no runs, a total of 3 hits and 20 errors, and still think he is major league material. Who but a father would pretend to be excited on Father's Day when he gets 14 handkerchiefs, han-dkerchiefs, 6 pairs of brown socks, and 3 very loud ties-when what he really wanted was a new fishing rod. Fathers are not so diplomatic when their teen-age daughters first begin to date. In fact, they sometimes react rather violently. You see fathers can remember exactly what they had in mind when they first started dating girls. Fathers are very brave, however, when their young daughters are just learning lear-ning to cook. They can eat burned biscuits and say they were the best they'd ever tasted without batting an eye. Fathers like hugs and kisses from daughters and laughing sparring matches with sons. And in the winter the thing they like best is-you guessed it-football on TV. But we love them anyway. MARY GAE EVANS PAROWAN - I hope all you wives were terribly nice to your husbands and fathers on Father's Day. When you think about it, fathers are pretty special people. Just think, who but a husband and father would get up earlier than anyone else in the family, go to work on a tough job with only a cup of coffee to get through the morning, eat warm tuna fish sandwiches and a sticky cupcake for lunch, and come home to hand over his entire paycheck to his wife. He spends his spare time taking out garbage, mowing lawns, and fixing broken toasters, washers, and dozens of bike tires. When he finds time to |