The Sidney herald., 1956-05-31

slider collecting things - and then
think of all the extra dustingl
have a friend, in Pampa, Texas,
who collects things. She collects
postcards. (They don't require
busting and that's a point in
their favor). BUT her mother
collected them before her - may
be her grandmother, too, for all
l know - and now she has so
many shoe boxes crammed with
postcards that she doesn't know
what to do with them. / could
tell her, but as I said, she's q
good friend so l never have -
yet.
It's beginning to look more
and more as though I'll have to
struggle along without a hobby
unless you could call taking maps
a hobby. I'm very good at that.
Or maybe reading mystery books;
but maps and mysteries don't
sound cultural or improving and
I'm pretty sure that's what a
a hobby should be. Probably I'd
better stop worrying about it
and start collecting all the cob
webs in the corners.
Sometimes you wonder if your
little vegetable garden in the
back yard is worth all the bother
and fuss, the hoeing and water
ing, the chasing-off-of-dogs. You
find that it is, the day you pick
the first green onions and en-
JOY them with bread and butter
and a glass of cold milk. Or
when you chop them up with
fresh lettuce and radishes and
mix them with your favorite
salad dressing.
Earrings r getting bigger and
all the time. With some
baby sitting money Dell bought
pair - green flowers with
centers - that must
be two inches in diameter. After
she got them home, she decided
they were too much of a good
thing and gave them to me. 1 love
hem, but they're so huge that l
can't comb my hair while I'm
wearing them.
1 went a little highbrow this
week and read Divine Mistress
by Frank Slaughter. It's scenes
are laid in Padua, Venice, and
Madrid during the sixteenth CEN
ury; the century of Michael
.Servetus, the first investigator
# pulmonary circulation; of An
Vesalius, the first great
lnatomist; and of Frey Tomas
lie Torquemada, the terror of the
Inquisition. It was the
entury, also, that saw the loss
f Botticelli's great canvas, "The
Birth of Venus" and watched the
rowth and spread of the new
seudo-science, mesmerism or
Magnetism. !
A love story parallels the !
vents of the century: Antonio
'ervetus, younger brother to the
reat Michael, and Maria Bell
rmi, a descendant of Amerigo
'espucci, carry on gracefully
mid bloodshed and intrigue. The
yhole thing ends on a high note.
l also finished a new Daphne
uMaurier story, Mary Anne
lark. It's not mysterious like
tebecca or Cousin Rachel, but
ather resembles The Kings
ienerai. 1t is historical but per-
onal, too, as the heorine is Miss {,
uMaurier's gr~eat-great grand
lother. She is a Becky Sharp
Ike character who climbs from !
London gutter to a place at the Il.
de of the Duke of York. Too !
lany long and dull trial scenes !
the second half. :
| shouldn't mention it, but af- ,
IT all this high toned litera- !
ire l turned to Darling, It's :
'eath by Richard S. Prather. Of :
lillian Roth can have her hinges, /.
} can ID This mystery is what !
lie trade calls a ''quickie': a !
nooth but mechanical tale fea- +.
the big, tough private de- :
Some of the humor is .
pod. 4,
l don't know how it is in Sid :
ey, but in Dumas schools out !
nd how can l cope with three :
Give youngsters when just one ;
as me babbling? :
School is out for ninety days! :
Now i must needs discover :
ways
To keep kids busy; to keep the
boy
From teasing girls. L must =
employ -
All means to keep the house 1
serene,
The baby happy, the others
clean.
It's quite a job to try to suit
them
As for their teachers - / sa-
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