Show 5 W WI I IBy GS By IRIS SYN RG Not often but once In awhile a housewife housewife house house- wife finds herself with spare time on her hands Since sitting and staring into space is frowned on in our society those housewives housewives housewives house house- wives take up hobbies I HAVE A friend who refinishes furni furni- ture She boned up on periods and styles and nothing will do except pieces from the period she settled on whatever that may have been She has traveled hundreds hundred of miles snooping out pieces of furniture thatto that thatto thatto to my uninformed eye look only old Her searches ta take e h her r to strange places Only recently she se came back from a far corner comer of Wyoming where shed she'd spent the week end in falling down granaries and deserted attics But she was happy even while she combed and wheat grains out of her hair Shed She'd found a commode which will keep her bottled up in her garage garag with dyes and scrapers for the next three months I HAVE ANOTHER friend who paints but nothing so so mundane as recognizable people or landscapes She paints ideas With paints she mixes herself Out of what Ive I've been afraid to ask She boasts of never having having having hav hav- ing taken a lesson but I wish she would Maybe then she could explain to me what those blotches and lines are supposed to be saying because as far as Im I'm concerned they haven't said a thing yet My sister in her spare time is a rock rock- bound This is dandy except she has a complexion complexion complexion com com- never meant to be left out in the sun for long and she comes home from a expedition with octahedral fluorite argentite crystals and an acute in inflammation inflammation inflammation in- in of the skin Not that this dampens damp ens her enthusiasm to speak of Let someone someone some some- one ore mention they've heard where there might be a deposit of crystalline kaolin and smeared with suntan oil she's off like a shot A NEIGHBOR collects clever little shot- shot glasses I dont don't know why The strongest drink she ever had was a cranberry juice cocktail one New Years Year's eve Another knits mostly suits She has a talent along those lines Imes that's unusual She makes make the only knit suits I ever saw that are rump sprung before they're worn A A. dainty lady getting along In years lived across the street from me once She spent her spare time hours repairing small appliances I didn't know this until she asked me to go on a shopping expedition with her one day Assuming knowing my fussy little friend that we would end up in at least Makoff's Makoff s I dressed to the teeth even donning spike heels and my sheerest hose THAT WAS a mistake We overshot We overshot In fact the whole darn dam town Winding through the industrial area we pulled up at a dump yard My friend said it was a aUsed aUsed aUsed Used Parts Establishment but it was a dump yard IVE I'VE HAD HAPPIER afternoons I couldn't stir up any wild enthusiasm over templates or heating elements so I wandered wandered wandered wand wand- ered off by myself while my friend argued with the owner It wasn't long before I managed to catch one of my spike heels in inan inan inan an old bedspring The harder I struggled to get loose the tighter I stuck I couldn't decide whether to abandon my shoe or wait indefinitely to be rescued with nothing to entertain me but a vast expense of old washers washers washers wash wash- ers and eroded engines I have a hobby too Its It's outmoded and when I mention it people look at me and cut me out of the conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion but I enjoy it I read |