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The heart remembers what
the mind forgets.
Why does a sudden scent take me back
to a summer morning by a lake, and I
am a child again? Though it is autumn,
my heart tells me the scent is wet bath
ing caps in the hot sun.
Why does a tall pine stir my heart
before my memory gives me bluebells in
my hands on a Bpring night?
Why does a song return to me an old
love, long forgotten?
My mind rejects a mystic chamber of
the heart which holds emotion. My brain
claims all such reactions. I know my
heart is not heart-shaped, that it is a
lumpish muscle without which I die.
I could live without a mind and be
denied the poet's bequest of the heart's
independence. Yet when my heart is
touched, there is an ache which is physi
cal pain. When I am stirred by violets,
by moonlight, by a child's smile, I can
not credit a scientific process of the mind.
Perhaps I am more dreamer than doer,
more moved by romance than re
ality, though reality is breathing and
seeing and walking and talking.
Yet all these actions also belong to the
soulless, the living things Which do so
in instinctive need for preservation.
Some of these have only microscopic
minds. Must I sacrifice the instinct of
my heart to this?-
Allow me my souvenirs, the little
things which rouse remembrance of more
than compartments in my head. Grant
me my lavender and faded fan. Let me
cherish a sonnet on a bluff, strawberries
in champagne, an ivory rose at the throat
of a woman I restore in heart's delight,
a star caught forever in a boy's shining
eyes, a kitten in the summer grass.
I do not hold these things in my mind.
It is designed for living today and plan
ning for tomorrow. My mind has long
since given all these memories to the
empty air.
But in my heart they live forever.
Tamil? Wttkly, October 11, IM
HINTS CUUxCTED
BY MRS. 0AM GERBER,
MOTHER OF FIVE
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with daddy
And why not? A daddy is all fun and fanfare...
all chortles and chin-chucking. A daddy can turn into
a horse at the drop of a dimpled smile.
He's a whiz at games and a master builder with blocks.
He's the hero who comes home with a surprise
in his pocket ... a toss in the air in his arms. Who -
wouldn't want to go steady with a gay blade like that?
Memo from 1 popular dad in his own right,
Dan Gerber. "It may interest you to know that here
at Gerber your baby's foods are 'custom-cooked'
to insure digestibility and better nourishment
For example, some foods require longer cooking than
others . . . some higher temperatures. Fruits are
flash-cooked... sweet-potatoes are slow-cooked
(to break down starches into easily digested sugars).
Egg yolks are treated differently from meats.
Whatever the method, cooking time and temperatures
are scientifically controlled to preserve the utmost
in precious food values."
A bit about blocks. There's something about blocks
that absolutely captivates toddlers. With or
without dad's inspirational help, they're great fun to
stack up and topple down. Interestingly enough,
they have educational value, too. Every time your
toddler succeeds in getting one block to stay on
top of another, his hands and eyes advance in skill.
Every time he hits upon a new arrangement,
he develops his creative imagination.
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More about blocks ... the "building blocks' of the body;
namely proteins. Gerber High Protein Cereal
has a 35 protein content, to say nothing of added
iron, calcium and B-vitamins. Add a toasty, nut-like
flavor and you've nutrition in the nicest form imaginable.
Toddler tactics. From time to time toddlers go on
a milk strike. You can often encourage a reluctant one
to drink his milk if you let him sip it through a
brightly colored plastic straw. Other ways you can
get milk into a toddler: offer extra servings of
cereal. Or Gerber Custard Puddings. Or treat him to
a nog, using Gerber Egg Yolks as a base
and Gerber Orange Juice and sugar for flavoring.
For your baby's well-being: Gerber prepares over
100 baby foods-infant formulas, cereals, strained and
Junior foods-to meet your baby's nutritional needs.
We're proud to say:
"Babies are our business
. , . our only business ! "
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