Sunlcist
Petal Design
Stainless
Steel
5-piece place setting
yours for only $1.50
and 12 trademarks
from Sunkist Oranges
or Lemons.
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Sunkist Petal Design, made
oy international onver com
pany and brought to you ex
clusively by Sunkist Growers,
is a delightful pattern made
to harmonize with any decor.
It's brand new. It's fully
guaranteed. It stays bright
without polishing. And how
inexpensive ... a 50 saving
to you! Just $1.50 for this
5-piece starter set, plus 12
trademarks from Sunkist
Oranges or Lemons (slice
them off thin and wrap in
waxed paper before inserting
in envelope) .
Start your set of beautiful
Sunkist Petal Design stain
less steel by mailing the cou
pon. Literature describing
complete offer is mailed with
each place setting.
Satirist Oranges, Lemons
"SUNKIST", Division 10404
Wallingford, Connecticut
Enclosed is $1.50 In cash for each
5-piece place setting of "SUNKIST"
Petal Design tableware plus Sunkist
trademarks as described above.
Number of place settings
cash enclosed
NAME.
1
(Please Print)
ADDRESS-CITY
STATU.
Offer limited to Continental U.S.A.
LmicOdlen
Sunday mornings I look across rapidly cooling
breakfasts on the table at three newspapers with faces
hidden behind them. I try to swallow my impatience and
whisper a thanks for our freedom of reading and of read
ing the truth in our papers.
How good it is to be an American housewife with no more
to worry about than whether the children let their eggs
get cold, or just how many times I have to warm over my
husband's coffee! Mrs. Wynona Troup, Waco, Tex.
DOOR TO THE WORLD. All my life I've want
ed to travel, and now I have at least by writing letters to
people all over the world as well as around the U.S. I "met"
a girl from an Indian university in Bombay, a Chinese boy
living in Jamaica, a charming girl in England, a "hepster"
from Virginia, and a "long-hair" from Kansas.
Of course, I've actually met only one of my new friends
in person, but through our letters I feel close to all of them.
I've learned, too, that the people of the worjd aren't strangers,
but next-door neighbors. And perhaps I've helped my friends
know a little about America, too.
A stamp on an envelope is like a knock on the door of a
friend's house: it opens the way to many friendly hours.
Miss Virginia Schuster, Nampa, Ida.
BEING A MOTHER ISN'T ENOUGH. It took me
nine years to realize that just being a mother doesn't neces
sarily mean your children will always love you. When
my second son was eight, his resentment toward me began
to come into the open, and it took many months of patience,
understanding, and effort on my part to win back his love.
Such a heartbreaking incident for us both might have
been avoided if I'd just remembered that you only get out
of any project what you put into it, and my children are my
greatest project. Mrs. B.G., Grand Junction, Colo.
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I
. . . what you see written here today, is created only
under duress and because I must eat
This is a day I did not wish to sit at my typewriter and
say anything. I have a hunger in me" more demanding than
the need for food and this cannot assuage it.
Had I been as free as the world should be, today is a day
I would have chosen to sit in this same place and never
write a line. I would have curled up in my chair and
dreamed awake, the most wonderful way of all.
And I would never disclose to you a single one of my
dreams. Though each word I have written is true and honest,
I cannot share all my desires and hopes with anyone.
When I write, I belong not entirely to myself but to all
who choose to know me. And here they can read my sad
ness and my longings, my remembrance and my anticipation.
But I t:annot grant anyone the right to open the last door
of myself as it springs open unbidden today. Some among
us feel compelled to fling the final vestige of themselves
before the world. That betrays insecurity, as though they
beg acceptance they fear they cannot know. Perhaps some
times the door within myself is open a little in the same way.
But it is not proper that a man should relinquish his last
stronghold, that he should betray his heart's desire com
pletely and leave nothing as his sanctuary in the night for
comfort and in the day for glory.
This is my day to glory in myself. This is my day to be a
part of the sun and clouds, my hour to seek my soul with
pleasure and delight. I am alone and the house is still, but
I have an obligation, signed and sealed, to meet with you and
your knowing eyes.
I hereby discharge it the only way I can. I can give you
today no part of myself to fit a part of you. For I am weak
with a certain joy and strong with a special knowledge and
filled with a peculiar blend of laughter and tears.
I grant you now this same respite from me. And now you
must leave me.
There are times when the heart must be permitted to sing
only to itself.
FAMILY WEEKLY. 179 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago I, III. Leonard S. Davidow Publisher- Wl.. r n i a . .. '
Patrick O'Rourke. Advening Director; Melenie De Croft. Food Editor; William K . Fetter Art Dw. SiocLa,!e Publlsher: B" Kartman, Editorial Director;
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Address all communication! about editorial features to Family Weekly 179 N Michinan A r-k- r '
Weekly, IH N. Michigan Ave., Chicago I, III. Contents Copyright 1957 by Fami ly Weekly Maoa itTw "1-a" adver,;"9 communication, to Family
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