Evening star., 1958-05-14
OF Love
and Laughter
Sure Signs of Summer
You Siqh Contentedly
BY MARJORIE HOLMES

Nows the time after long hard winter. windows are
at last flung open, doors stand wide.
Wives call TO each other over back fences as they
air the family woolens. the couch cushions, and
forgetting that closet they've started cleaning
entire morning poking pruning and pulling weeds In
the yard.
Husbands tsay or srumbling begin to tend TO shut
ters, eavespouts trelises the oing OF lawn mowers
The two OF you trail into the hardware store for
sack OF nails and wind up choosing wallpaper for the
bedroom and paint for the front hall -
You stroll through the tansy smelling garden shop
and emerge, to your surprise with 10 pounds Of
seed six bargain burlapwapped apple tree and
a bag Of fertiizerl -.f f'.t'
Children dash. protesting. to where their dad is dig
ging dandeons and squat enrapt to I'LL their fists with
the shaggy gold.
NeShbors scarcely seen for months become old friends
again as you tnde your little grocery cart to the super
There thud upon the step; you turn the fire lower
under the potatoes and settle down the porch swing
with the evening paper to await mates Homecoming
No Little MGtter
You wonder sometimes which is the lively, the
spirited the trouble-te boys little girls
Little boys throw things when they get wound up
They are likely to grab anything from cap to a
ball to lamp Or they take swipes at each other grab
each other with joyous abandon kick sqeal hurl each
other to the ground and wrese like noisy, nippng cubs
They threat to everything the place, including
Exposed to them for any length of time you are
likely to think in sheer desperation Boys are absolutely
Then the little girls come hockng in
Little girls with their squeals their screams. their
giggles.
Little girls less likely to throw things. but they
have other methods of working havoc-such chasing
each other wildly around table Or hauling out all your
pans, spoons, cups and glasses for q tea party.
Or getting into lipstck perfume. hats evening
dresses and high-heeed shoes
Or dumping boxes of little people" complete with
niture, dead center Of the rug
Most Of this to the accompaniment Of knife-shrin
voices calling bossiy to each other plus such sdeeecs
as ace-making. tickling, hip and shoulder wiggng and
stuck-out tongues.
Let herd of little girls take the premises and
the person who doesn't recall his former vote to
heaven and implore. Give oh give little boys!"
Have You Ever Wondered Why?
Though you know exactly what your child looks like
and don't find it particular treat at home becomes
Of such vital consequence to spot that beamng coupenance
marching in with the others in program at church
school? -cf sts-s % +
Oh why, once located, he's Just about the only
your eyes can feast uponl :.
They always get sick schoodays rather than bright
sunny week ends. e.. .-
When they're little they laugh hlarously at your Jokes
and beg for more. When they're older they say "Of,
Mother, don't be corny."
Proverbs to Ponder: ,---..--e.... ..-.
Every wise buideh her house: but the foolish
plucketh it down with her hands"
Sunday Clong eluns, cuns goes everything including 4he
trolley when tiny fodder climbs oboo view the world beyond
dOor-in "of Love and Luusher" in the Womens Section