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cooking, smoking, bathroom,
pets, musty closets, baby's
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IS CONSTIPATION
ADDING TO YOUR
COLD MISERIES?
If you are fighting a cold, and are
constipated, take a laxative that
"gets along" with cold remedies.
For overnight relief from irreg
ularity, take gentle Ex-Lax. It
helps you toward your normal reg
ularity in two medical ways. One
- Unlike some laxatives, Ex-Lax
acts moKtly in the large intestine,
not the stomach. Does not rob you
of vital foods. Two Ex-Lax contin
ues to help you toward your normal
regularity . seldom, if ever, is it
needed next day. Take pleasant
tasting, chocolated Ex-Lax.
COVERi It hardly irm possible, but thou
part kittens are hair to thouiandi of years
of breading. Tha blue-eyed Siamaia cama to
tha U.S. a half-century ago, and today ft
our mott popular cat aicepting, of course,
tha allay variaty! (photo by Walt Chandoha.)
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RiMjina Gfy,, Jack Rvan, Jerry Klein,
New Yofk.
for ay felilP-.
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If i were coing to have another baby, I asked myself,
what would I want my friends to give me? I decided the
grandest thing would be a complete dinner after I came
home from the hospital enough for my husband, our two
young children, and myself.
I wasn't going to have another baby but one of my friends
was, and when I told her about the idea, she hugged me with
joy. And the first Sunday she was home from the hospital,
my husband and I drove up to her house with a roast and all
the trimmings. That gift really hit the jackpot, and we have
done it for other friends half a dozen times since. Best of
all, I think it made us happier than the recipients! Mrs.
L. L., Sacraviento, Calif.
HOME OF THE PENNY DOLLS. There must be
many like myself in our town who remember a little toy
shop owned by an Englishwoman, Miss Zinn. It was the only
store in town where penny toys were sold and paper dolls,
china dolls with shiny black hair and rosy cheeks, and sticky
candy like a lollipop fastened to small garden tools. A child
with a few cents to spend was in fairyland there.
Miss Zinn herself was worth a visit. A bell rang when you
opened the door and there she would be a tiny, smiling
lady in lace who was always pleasant. It was an event for
children to go shopping in those days, and Miss Zinn's shop
was one of the few children could afford to patronize.
When her shop burned down, Miss Zinn retired and she
died soon after. But many of us have pleasant memories of
childhood dreams fashioned as we leaned over the counter
in that little toy shop. Anne B. Howard, Waco, Tex.
WHEN THE FLOOD STRUCK. The worst
flood in 50 years recently hit our part of southwestern Vir
ginia, and everyone pitched in to help. School bus drivers
(my husband, for one) had to leave their buses and walk the
children home. One driver took six tots to his own home -because
they lived, too far away to make it themselves.
The radio station helped homeless families find places to
stay; the Red Cross set up emergency headquarters in our
American Legion hall to help the flood victims, and we all
came through it safely. We also learned how much the Red
Cross and individual citizens will do to aid others when
disaster strikes. Mrs. O. L. Pruett, Bandy, Va,
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... a few weeks ago Fay hung a birdhouse in my tree.
The front door faces my window. I was ready for a wrenter.
Waldo hadn't made up his mind where he'd live until he
discovered my property, a neat white bungalow with brown
shingles.
I saw him the day he dropped in to look the place over.
It was spic and span, which obviously disconcerted him. He
spent quite a while going over the house, cellar to attic, and
inspecting the roof for leakage.
Today he's moving in. He's working like a bird dog. He
couldn't interest anyone else in assisting him and it's neces
sitated all sorts of extra work. He's pretty tired.
Waldo has a penchant for picking lumber the size of red
wood trunks to bring in the front door. He hoists them up
sideways and bangs his beak against the door jamb. Finally,
when he can't blast them in, he gives the whole thing up as
a bad job and drops them on the ground. He's wasted a good
carload of lumber that way. He's either drunk or stupid.
Furthermore, I'm afraid Waldo is setting up bachelor
quarters. I haven't seen a sign of the little woman and this
bothers me. Some members of Waldo's family are notorious
bigamists and philanderers. They no sooner build a little
love nest than they mumble about working late at the office
and pick up another girl friend in the next tree.
I hope Waldo's not that kind of wren. I'd hate to be a
party to the illicit affairs of a chirpskate. But, for a family
man, Waldo certainly has a leer in his beady eye.
I've considered going out there with a gift of string to help
hold up the drapes, but I can't decide whether I'm encour
aging vice or virtue and a landlord has to be careful these
days. I'd dislike having Waldo ruin the reputation of the
neighborhood.
However, I'll wait and see. If the girl Waldo brings home
pretty soon looks tired and cross and complains bitterly
about that litter he left on the lawn, I'll run right out with
a cup of bugs and be neighborly.
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