Show f. f L The Column Boy Boys V J p 44 4 1 WAltS ISO I IDE BE DE CAREFUL CAREL where you yu set your foot Earl Early across the grass For little eyes are watching Your going as you pa pass s. s The spider wove his hla gossamer The Tho ant built doors ol ot sand Oh get down on your knees now And with a gentle hand Investigate You'll see there coat cost The beetles beetle's shining And on the stone the message A snail la In silver sliver wrote Be lIe careful where you wander You ou are a giant here With tread like summer tl thunder under And these who know not fear tear Are waiting for your steps to pass Across the green and sheltering grass Eleanor Alletta Chaffee v y OSs O Ss SiMER men IS SUMMER HAS liAS arrived officially The years ears longest day June has I brought the high noon of the Northern Hemisphere Nights shorter days longer I the weeks that are ahead offer otter much Sun beaten days warm nights moon- moon I glow on Jeweled dew suns sun's rays bright brighton I Ion on wild strawberries We have been waiting the winter long for this summer summer sum sum- mer solstice and the delights of color and crops that make up for the tho time they have lost In la winters winter's sleep I School Is over children go to camps get vacation jobs or Idle away the long lazy hours Farmers are busy with cutting cutting cut cut- ting hay spraying and tending the trees that promise much In fruit The corn cornstalks cornstalks cornstalks stalks higher and gives a strong hint of the sweet soon to come Weed and wild wildflowers wildflowers wildflowers flowers offer otter the table decoration along with the latest of roses I Soon June slips sUps Into July with little change In verdure assuming the function function function tion of a busier growing month losing none of her freshness adding to her I shrubbery The birds call a a. challenge to I Ithe the flying insects and hover by the eaves of the barn meet on oa the garden fence dart over the fields whistle from the wood Their calls are ties noise some than their spring chirrups perhaps realizing realizing realizing real real- izing more than do we that the sun Isnow is isnow isnow now on Its downward dip to the fall and winter seasons We do not worry midst this lush growth about us of next Decembers December's Decembers December's Decembers December's Dec Dec- embers ember's chill chUl A A. DOUBLE PURPOSE SWIM FOR FOB health Is a name given In observation of a a. week the last of ot June Few of us who have not anticipated anticipated antici antici- I rated the time when we mIght get pleasure from swimming be bo it a private or public pool the ocean lake river or hole Swimming Is a healthy pastime though most of us do it more to cool i of off than because of Its healthful ties Recent years they have stressed the benefits to be gained In swimming particularly particularly particularly par par- Is It successful In helping victims victims vic vic- tims tinis of Infantile paralysis through the I exercising of muscles The creek down the track that attracted us as a lad wasn't viewed Inthe in inthe inthe the light of Its Us therapeutic powers It was Just plain unadulterated fun Memory Memory Memory Me Me- mory carries us to the spot where willows willows wil wil- willows wil- wil lows dipped low and lazy splotches of sun filtered through to the creeks creek's sur sur- face Leaping from roni a log to the pond wasn't a picture as exhibition dives go but we had the sensation of being a master of the art Swimming has grown in popularity is recognized as being healthful but It Itcan Itcan itcan can be dangerous too as the number of at the end of the summer testify Learn to swim but with an expert expert ex expert ex- ex pert swimmer on hand Take your dip but take It easy Know where the drop offs and the undertows are Caution is necessary or swimming isn't healthy O O s EARLY I IT MA MAYBE WE early to warn of the I danger of starting forest fires tires while peacefully enjoying a a. picnic outing a I drive through wooded areas How careless care- care Jess less we are about tossing cigarettes aside not being certain the picnic fires tires are I extinguished The huge forest fires raging In northland Ontario and western western west west- I em ern Quebec bring a reminder of things to come here In our own land Consider Consider Con Con- ConI I sider aider the waste to white pine spruce birch and popular Pulp and I timber are mighty Important to mans man's well Fires spread to envelope I towns mans man's habitation Fires cost lives mans man's most prized possession Let all cooperate to protect mans man's life and man mans man's s property I coo I KEEPING FIT THERE IS no time like the present to catch up In our bannister sliding Too many allow business to Interfere with developing physique through sports 1 I Some folks talks take to tennis but that Is pretty strenuous for the aging Golf Oolf is j better Fishing Is not active enough perI per per- haps But Dut take a tip from the Pennsylvania Pennsyl pennsyl- I vania vani lady who recently celebrated her I birthday She started the custom I several years ago go of sliding down the I side saddle side saddle and bannister astride bannister-astride astride not she doesn't take to a 0 rocking chair in between slides either The trouble with us Who v lw might welcome the activity and delight In enacting a long suppressed desire we dont don't have a 1 bannister O O O WARMER IEn ACCORDING TO 10 custom the presidential presidential campaigning hotter the tilO flow of I Promise Thee flows j in the wake of Junes June's theme song Oh Ohl Me Mo By Dy rail by auto by air etC I thu tho pl timber cuts a 1 wide as it draws applause boos or orl l nothing The last group may be the tho considered candidates as by some printing I Ithe i ithe silent vote At the present the victory is but guesswork the outcome outcome outcome out- out I come of the national conventions I tam tain Many more promises are to be made more miles covered more accusations hurled A As John Doe the man with the ballot It behooves us to keep abreact of the tho speech-making speech sift the true i from Irom the false Judge sincerity from Party agent tress tactics Some Borne of our reading and listening may te r e pointless and purposeless but out Pi much snuck we may be bo influenced In the stand we take later on O O O TUB 1 lit LIGHTen SIDE E OF LIlIA urr LIlI A SOUTHERN beauty and her kind bu but homily homely husband returned after atter several several sev sev- eral years to visit her home in Bayannah Sav Bay annah The children unfortunately favored their father rather Aunt Chloe w was i Continued on Page Four The Boys Column Continued from Page Ona pus happy to have her ink dar home again but she remarked to a confidante That Marse Edward hes he's Jess ieee about ruined Miss Sallys Sally's babies I AT THE grocery store I used to meet meeta a quiet middle-aged middle lady who was the thriftiest shopper I had ever seen and andone andone andone one day I told her so I suppose It runs runa in the family she said My grandmother brought me up on a farmIn farm farmin in Vermont and she would never cut cutI the lettuce on a Sunday until she re returned returned returned re- re turned from church I Why I asked In surprise Why So the lettuce might grow a little more while Granny was at church 1 l ITHE THE SCREEN discovery was discon discon- Did you see how that critic panned me he walled wailed to the producer Forget It it replied the latter That guys guy's nothing more than thana a parrot He only repeats what everybody else Is saying |