Mom's Now Coif-furor
A shy as a girl prom,
I awaited my dear ones' view:
The kids cried, "What' for dinner, Mom?'
And my spouse exclaimed, "What's new?"
Betty BMipp
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You move like a girl... j
walk like a girl...
dance like a girl...
play like a girl...
why not be comfortable
even on difficult days:
Use Tampax internal
sanitary protection.
You aren't even aware
you re wearing it!
TAMPAX K
Quips and Quotes
The pretty secretary to the corporation president told
her boss that she was to be married the following week
and would be quitting her job.
"Oh, no," the executive cried. "Not now we're right in
the middle of all that merger correspondence, and I need
you. Couldn't you ask your boy friend to postpone the
wedding for a month or so?"
"Oh, I couldn't do that," the girl said quickly. "I don't
feel I know him that well !" Dan Bennett
What', in Namo?
The druggist is now a "pharmacist";
The doctor's a "physician."
The hairdresser's made the status list
By being a "beautician."
With elegant labels thus to brand
And dignify their skills,
They're all far more impressive and,
I'd add, so are their'bilb!
Georgia Stmrbuck CmlbrmUh
The young wife had just learned the was expecting her
first baby. Her joy teas mixed with a great deal of anxiety,
eo the immediately went to see her mother. The older
woman put her fears to rest, but there was still one nag
ging doubt.
"What month will be the most difficult for met" the
anxious girl asked.
"I'm sure' it'll be the 10th month," the mother replied.
"But how can that bet"
"Because," the mother answered, "that's when the new
father carries the baby. Jim Henry
A distraught woman entered a dry-goods shop and
frantically looked at samples. "I must find material with
a metallic sheen and transparent enough to glow when a
red bulb is lighted under it," she told the manager.
The manager went through his entire stock, then ad
mitted: "It's something I'll have to order. But if I may
ask, just why do you want a metallic-sheen material trans
parent enough to glow when a red bulb is under it?"
"Well," the woman explained, "my son is in the school
play oh, if they only hadn't cast him as a nose cone!"
Hem Albright
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You were only a temporary home, and it is
unfair of you to be so beautiful on this last
morning.
It is as if you sensed the tentative claim on you and
replied, "See, you have underestimated me all these
months."
So you clothe yourself in crystal and the jewels of
winter's end. You give yourself a spring blue sky and an
April shb to sparkle on the polished earth.
Never was my Minnesota lake more exquisite than on the
morning of departure with the mist lifting from the
awakening waves. The Gulf coast was never more alluring
than from far below a plane window in a lush dawn.
But you, which I have tolerated with the carelessness of
impermanence, have outdone all the rest You have taken
the shabby circumference of yourself and covered it with
snowy Stardust. You have created a frosted still life of
every pine tree, every timid shrub.
And against this last daybreak, you fling a shower of
hoarfrost and defy me not to raise my eyes in wonder at
your genius.
I have lived with you impatiently, a bird who rests
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briefly on a bough he would not claim and then finds sud
denly the sparse twigs glowing in glory when he lifts his
wings to fly.
You scatter diamonds of delight on this landscape with
carefree abandon. You touch this corner of the world with
majesty, daring me to forget you.
Living rootlessly in a sterile world, marking time for
my Shangri-La, I saw you with a limited vision. In this
last dawn, you have opened like a flower.
And now I regret the waste. Now I know I will miss you
more than I opuld believe possible. And you teach me what
I should have learned.
Every horizon toward which I hurry is only a promise.
How great is the sacrifice of what I leave behind?
Tho Boot of Patty Johnson
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