Show THE MESSAGE By MARGARET 1 RUSSELL Manti 1 seems to be blessed w with an unusual abundance of tz talented people There are arc si singers and pianists and writers and painters and d dancers and actors and act- act r There are the best basketball basketball basket- basket J ball players in the state of Utah L There is Gil Hibben who n makes the best knives in the world and also sings in the 1 Tabernacle Choir Talents of these sort are in inthe inthe tl the limelight nd and deserve to b be When talent is combined v with years of hard work the r result is apt to be spectacular I But Manti has people with t talents of another type and t these are important too Frank Madsen ladsen for instance 1 has a real talent for friendship friend- friend s ship Lily Keller has a talent f for neighborliness Raymond Jensen had a most i impressive talent for sweeping r my daughter off her feet and r marrying her Ray Peterson has a talent f for what seems to be round- round t the-clock the cheerfulness Connie Anderson is blessed i with a talent for seeing the e J humor in dark darI situations And since coming to Manti J my family has developed new 1 talents too My ly husband has discovered an unsuspected talent for dishwashing In fact he has become such a perfectionist in this field that woe be unto him who has a crumby dishcloth dishcloth dish dish- dishcloth cloth to rinse out I told him the other day that I wasn't sure I would have married him if I r had known he was going to be so violent about his dishwater And Stephanie has become talented In answer to the question If it takes a hen and a half a day and a half to lay an egg and a half how long does it takes one hen to lay one egg she replied instantly instantly in instantly in- in Two hours A mathematical genius maybe Anyway with so much tal talent talent talent tal- tal ent floating about town a little is is' sure to rub off on every- every r I body So try to discover what has rubbed off on you and polish it up a bit and join the parade in the most talented talented talented tal- tal tal tal- town in the world |