Herald and news., March 24, 1963, Page 46, Image 46

The Hollered
Headline
By WILLIAM SAROYAN
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Wouldn't you rather
use Tampax?
Come now, urcn't you really fed a
up with other methods of sanitary 5
protection? jjj
Haven't you had it with chafing
. . . irritation . . . odor ... all the I
unplcasantries of time-of-the- I
month problems? a
Tampax internal sanitary pro-
lection is invisible and unfelt when a
in place. It prevents odor niNUI 3
from forming by prevent- rtjjg
ing exposure to the air. It CQZSIj i
gives yousomuchfreedom, UliiU a
you're hardly aware of dilfercnccs a
in days of the month. What on i
earth are you waiting for?
Perhaps you feel internal pro-
lection is not for you. Tampax was a
invented by a doctor for the bene- 5
fit of all women, married or single, 3
active or not. It has a silky applies-
tor that is firm enough, smooth a
enough, to make insertion simple, s
But don't take our word for it
try it! Try Tampax this very 5
month. Trying it doesn't commit 3
OU to it. We doubt seriously, how-
ever, thaFyou'll ever go back to
"the other way." Tampax lncor-
porated, Palmer, Mass. 3
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Invented by a doctor ...
now used by mdlions of women a
3
THE YEAR WAS 1922, the
place was Fresno, the char
acter was 13 years old, the
- event was the lightning-swift
recognition by him of a man
in the world at last who really
knew what it was all about
The name of this man was William
Saroyan. He was walking at the time
and he said, "Croak, that's me. Am I
the man who knows what it's all
about?"
He was.
The way it happened was this.
The world was cold, crazy, and
crooked it was so cold, so crazy, and
so crooked it was all anybody could do
to get up in the morning even. It
didn't seem worth the bother. Being
asleep seemed a million times better.
All the same, he got up every morning
and tried again.
The trouble was he didn't know
what he was trying for.
It seemed to be money, because he
always needed money, his whole fam
ily always needed money, everybody
he knew always needed money, but he
knew it wasn't money. Selling papers
every day -made him feel he was get
ting somewhere, but he knew it was
only to the bakery for bread, and that
wasn't what he was trying for, either.
Was it shoes? Well, shoes were fine,
but all you had to do to get shoes was
take enough money to a shoe store and
buy a pair, so it couldn't be shoes.
Was it a house? Well, a house was
always a good idea, but having a house
was nothing more than having money
with which to buy a house, so it
couldn't be a house, either.
Was it importance? Well, of course
every man in the world ought to be im
portant, but how important can any
body possibly be without making a fool
of himself, so it couldn't be impor
tance, either.
Was it power? Well, being strong
in body was always sensible, but what
good could it do to be strong in body
and weak in mind? In any case, he was
strong, certainly strong enough for all
practical purposes. He had absolutely
no wish to order people around, or to
scare them, or to make them work for
him for nothing, or to punish them,
or anything else stupid like that, so
of course it couldn't be power, either.
Was it handsomeness? Well, of
12 Family Weekly, March 14, 1963
Novtlist ("The Human Conway") and playwright ("The Time of Your Life"); author of the
recently published autobiography, "Hero Comes, There Goes You Know Who"