| Show f t THE A Eye Ants Eye s-Eye View By By MAC MACD D Dear ar Brother I was wondering what to write about this week when the mall mail brought a letter from one ot of our favorite nieces they're all favorite favor tavor lie ite you'll agree but tout this one was WI the first one of how of-how how many Six or seven soven And her letter set me to thinking thinking thinking think think- ing of t now how widely divergent our family has become how widely scattered In eo co many ways and I yet still so co very close In every way So different from the way Dad must havo have planned It when lie Jle kept his little brood closely gathered under Mothers Mother's wing Ing I when we were young and you were the oldest and I was the baby I Then we all lived In one house In Nebraska and we al all belonged to the United Presbyterian Presbyterian Pres Pres- Church Now the six of of us lI live e In n six states stales Wyom Wyom- Wyom J sing Colorado Utah California I I Oregon Wyoming and Wyoming and as far farasI aa asI aal I can tell from here we go gov v to to six different churches tv i 1 I remember member r remember when Evelyn was waa 8 born I was very young and very I P f. unsophisticated being a high school sophomore and I called on ona a party line three times during the d day y to ask Mother who w was waa 8 mid If It It were a boy or a Q girl Sirl Finally Mother lost her endless end end- i less lell patience for once and an an- These These things dont don't happen all aU at once you know They take at least nine months and then some acme times another few tew days Please be beas beas as patient as aa your sister slater and the thedo do doctor t r are being aAll v a vAll All up and down the line tine I heard snickers from lifted re re fO- cervera I 1 still blush lush Nowa News days daya the nurse would say eay Dont call us Well We'll call you And so Evelyn was born and she he grew up and she got married and she brought up a fatuity family of her own In tact fact If it Dad had lived another six months three years ago he would have been the patriarch of five generations She Sheia ia is now a grandmother and our ow sister is a great My Lady Fair and I still remember remember remember re re- I member Evelyn mostly as the charmingly dimpled slide trombone tram bone player In the high school chool o band tl the e blonde and beautiful star of ot all aU the school plays the I most delightful i mimic who could have become a stage celebrity I but tut who chose marriage Instead She married a Mormon And typically became the best Mormon Mor More mon In a big Mormon family I lit It was Wal t to her that we turned for advice and counsel when we were trying to decide whether or not to come to Utah five years ago She Is 18 the one who told us we would never be sorry for casting our lot In Utah And she was Wal right t. t So now big brother she is floating on air I want you In Cheyenne Wyoming to bo be as proud of ot her and he her heK son as we weare weare weare are here in fn Utah Her ner second son Is going on a mission for the Church to Australia Compare Your daughter was awarded special training in New NewYork NewYork York City as Southern California's finest school nurse Our son was awarded citations as editor of the finest Army newspaper In Europe This is the same same PLUS the spiritual spirit ual What's got Into me re This Is I. supposed to be a column of entertainment and now look Well after all Hope you and Ruth had a wonderful wonderful won won- trip Drop in when you youcan youcan can can and write when you get time I Love Love Mac |
