To A MAN, home may be anywhere he
hangs his hat. To a woman, home
is where she hangs her heart. I write
this hundreds of miles from my heart,
and I know.
It is beautiful here. My aerie is high among
the trees. At night a gleaming necklace of lights
rests on the water's throat.. I think of home, not
with homesickness but because a part of me has
never left it. Women are like that.
A man can go away with a heart as light as
his knapsack. He can turn the key in the lock,
chart his course, and never wonder if the plant
in the window will die and never care if it does.
He may remember the cares of the day but
not care much about how the firelight touches
his hearth.
Here on the dock there are swimmers, and soon
I will join them. They are laughing, the blue
water tasting their toes. They are an animated
picture postcard, needing only the old familiar
"wish you were here" to complete it.
I am pleased that I'm here. I needed to be
away for a time to knit up the raveled sleeves of
care packed in my suitcase. These wider horizons
release my mind from the pattern of my year.
But what I leave behind for this little time is
infinitely more precious to me. This pine-paneled
cottage is not half so endearing as the fragrance
of tea in my blue-walled living room nor the
sight of a neighbor waving across the fence.
Am I a latter-day Emily Dickinson? No, for
I will never achieve the perfect porcelain of her"
poetry and no, again, for she never left her gar
den all her life. And thus, she was no more than
an observer. At least, I have bested her at living.
But neither Emily nor I need to go anywhere
to know that travel is a word never to compare
with the singing sound of home.
And there was never more truth in anything
than that the best day of a vacation is the day
you walk in your own front door.
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Bringing Up Baby
Hints Collected by
Mrs. Dan Gerber,
Mother of 5
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wanderlust, anyone?
Of course ! Babies, like everyone else, want
to see the world. What better reason for try
ing to creep? And those first attempts at
creeping are adorably awkward, wonderful to
behold. Some try it forward, others backward.
Still others fancy crabwise creeping. No mat
ter what style your baby selects, the important
thing is that he's learning the 3 big C's:
Confidence, Co-ordination, Control. Happy
new horizons I
Girl or boy creepers, sit-abouts or gadabouts,
every darling one of them needs protein . . .
to help develop strong muscles. Tasty way to
give baby extra protein: Gerber High Meat
Dinners. These baby-style "casseroles" have
3 times as much meat (and therefore much
more protein) as regular combination baby
dinners. And all this savory meat is subtly
blended with garden-good vegetables for
bright flavor . . . hearty nourishment. S vari
eties, strained or junior.
Roaming routine. When baby becomes a
"four-walker" you'll really have to keep an
eye on your traveler. Good idea to schedule
his roaming times when you have some
watching time. Say, when you're taking a
"breather" or doing some sit-down chores.
When you return baby to his play pen, a
favorite toy, a snack of Gerber Fruit Juice or
a Teething Biscuit will help overcome pos
sible resentment at the confinement.
Lip-smacking sipping with nutritional lean
ings. Gerber Strained Fruit Juices leave .
nothing to be desired in the way of flavor
delight . . . and they're high in vitamin C. Has
baby tried the new Orange-Apricot or Apple- .
Cherry Juices yet ?
Reminder division. Rooms where baby has
crawl privileges should be checked con
stantly for safety. Household hazards which
may not occur to you: floor-drooping plants,
dangling appliance cords, rocking chairs,
dropped pins or buttons.
A word from Dan Gerber. "Our agricultural
experts work on a year-in, year-out basis to
improve the quality of your baby's food. Take
Gerber Green Beans, for example. Over a
period of years, our Agricultural Research
Department experimented with several green .
bean varieties to develop a superior strain. .
As a result of these efforts, the
beans we use are tender, sue- ? fr.'
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have less fiber, more flesh . . .
and most important, they have a deeper color
which indicates a higher nutritive value."
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