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Art by Ken Kenniston
Ku can give mechanical gadgets all the credit you want for the speedy
performance of household chores, but in my encyclopedia the real heroine
is the modern, television-watching housewife a complicated bit of
machinery operating on D.C. (During Commercials).
At least that's the way I feel about my wife. I don't know what she does around
the house all day long, but she's terribly busy during those one-minute commer
cials in the evening hours.
Watching a drama called "I. Ducked a Dirk in the Dark" the other night, I
was contentedly lighting my pipe when the first act closed and my wife blurred
past me, putting out my match. "Gotta dampen the clothes, write a note to the
milkman, call Evelyn, and make some popcorn!" she called over her shoulder.
She did, too. I heard her end of the conversation with Evelyn after she'd tak
en care of the clothes, milkman, and popcorn. I think it's worth repeating in
its entirety. It went like this:
"Bridge Saturday. Here. Nine."
Click.
She was back just as the second act began. "Won't Evelyn be miffed?" I asked.
"I mean, you can't be that abrupt with people, you know."
"She hung up on me," my wife said out of the corner of her mouth, her eyes
glued to the screen. "She's watching this play, too."
On other occasions, I station myself midway between our living room and
kitchen, calling out the progress of commercials to my whirling dervish. "Fifteen
seconds gone," I sing out, bent tensely over the sweep hand on my watch.
"I've got your lunch for tomorrow made and wrapped. Now for washing the
supper dishes!" she gasps.
"Thirty," I report.
"I'm on the silverware. Keep contact," she calls.
"You're doing nicely," I encourage. "Don't try to mop and wax the kitchen
floor. You can do that between this show and 'There's No Tax on Murder.' "
"Check!"
"Fifty-five seconds!"
"Dishes done. Gangway!" she wains.
I flatten against the sideboard as my wife makes the turn around the table
and, with a one-and-a-half gainer, is in her seat just as the action resumes.
It's not always this frenzied, of course. Once in a while, she merely sits where
she is during the commercials and knits. Barring yarn snarls or a fit of sneezing,
she can turn out a pair of mittens for our daughter, a handsome muffler for me,
and get a good start on a set of golf club covers between programs.
I much prefer this to an earlier system in which she tried to knit and watch
the screen at the same time. Some of the scarves she made in those days we use
as extra comforters on cold nights. But most of them are too big.
My wife wisely saves the major jobs the thorough weekly cleaning, the
occasional wall-scrubbing, and that kind of thing for those odd times when
operating difficulties beyond our control interfere with the video reception,
please stand by. One night when there was trouble along the coaxial cable,
blotting out the picture for the better part of half an hour, we took advantage of
the interruption to repaper the living room!
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by Melt
Catholics have a genuine love and
respect for the Bible. It could nut
he otherwise, for the Catholic
Church is the Mother of tlie Bible.
But we do not agree with the
modern tlieory that the Bible is
the one and only source of religi
ous truth.
The Gospel of St. John, for ex
ample, says: ". . . there are many
other things which Jesus did
which are not written in this
book." And St. Paul said: "Stand
fast; and hold die traditions which
you have learned, whether by
word or by our epistle" ( 2 Thes
salonians 2:15).
Christianity began with the
coming of Christ nor with the
writing of the Bible. And Christ
had established His Church . . .
which St. Paul called "the pillar
and mainstay of the truth". . . long
before any of the books of tlie
New Testament had been written.
The Savior did not command us
to read anything, but He did com
mand us to hear His Church.
This does not mean, of course,
that the Bible is not extremely
valuable. It does mean, though,
that the Bible is not... and was
not intended to be . . . the sole
source of Christian teaching and
belief. The Church had existed
1600 years, in fact, before the
theory was advanced that the
Bible should be the sole guide to
Christian believers.
Early century Christians never
saw the complete Bible. It was 400
years after Christ died before the
books of the Bible were assembled
into their present form. And it
was 1400 years before printing
was invented and the mass distri
bution of the Scriptures became
possible. If Christ had intended
the Bible to be the sole guide to
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His teaching, would He have al
lowed this delay-permitting mil
lions of people to die in ignorance
of the printed Word?
The answer is, of course, that
Chrisr established His Church to
carry on His mission and spread
His reaching. And while the Hible
is the inspired Word of God, there
are certain truths taught and ex
emplified by Christ which it dors
nor record . . . which will be fuund
in the life, practice and teaching
of Christ's Church traditions dat
ing back to the days of the Apost
les and ante-dating the printing of
tlie Bible.
If you have a genuine love for
the Bible, you should learn all you
can about it. We will send you
free, in a plain wrapper, upon your
request, an interesting pamphlet
on the subject. And nobody will
call on you. Write today ask for
Pamphlet No. FM-32.
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