Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-23
OF Love
.dnd Laughter
- BY MARJORIE HOLMES -
Come On, Everybody! Let's Go
To q Good Old County Fair
By MARJORIE HOLMES

Lets go to the county fair" your husband pro-
poses arriving home early one evening Everybody get
ready and we'll eat supper there"
The children whove glimpSed It's lights and caught
its faint tanalizing music for nearly week. ecstatc
The ttles roots out her rued slip and chooses her IA
vorite frock You fasten her little white slippers. She
clutches her purse with its pennies and the whole dollar
her father has given her. after lining them up In row
and presenting each with a crisp bill to spend.
The sun is setting you park and walk across the
subbly grass soft pink stripping above the sheds and
tents. There the stirring, nostalgia smell OF
farm animals Clean-cut All youngsters leading their
livestock into barn. washing them down with hoses and
q plump pleasant boy in sombrero is giving his steer
q perfect marcel.
Lets see the rabbits let's see the chckens!" The
great rabbits lie asleep nibbng white and chocolate
brown The roosters strut and chore majestic white
with opaescent feathers and uputting combs Of vivid
rose-red iridescent, copper bronze New Hampshires
Plymouth Rocks with their crisp black and white scallops
But the entcng fragrance of food and frying onions
is too much You emerge to eat huge cracking slabs Of
fried sparerbs with your fingers and drink ce-cold lem
onade topped of with clouds of cotton candy in which
already sticky faces plunged.
You make slow progress along the lighted midway.
the children wanting to pause for every pitch artist and
try their luck. Let win bear, It's easy. know
can do It'll" Dear. you'll only lose your money" But
lessons must be learned the hard Poorer.
soled by tawdry trinket the hopefu trudge on
The merry -go-round spins its tinny magic and they
clamor aboard You watch their enchanted rise and fall
waving wildly each time they pass
You want to take them on the ferris wheel?" your
husband asks.
mo. thanks!"
he gamey mounts the small PLATFORM ana sees CnaC
each is safely locked the rocking seats Then he too
with the youngest is fastened H. Up and they circle
toward the stars You stand with held breath and beating
heart they descend, sweep past. Hi, Mom!"
On this wheel of light and wonder your family is
borne away from you and back Then one by one the
seats irrevocaby stopped and the reluctant occupants
tread earth again.
"Bingo!" your husband "one game of bingo,
then go home"
To your eternal establishment you win blanket, which
the children fight smeared like painted Indians
from candy apples they head back across the pasture grass
The air chill the stars like Clipped ice leave the
country fair with your flock.
FiShpole Economies
We've discovered that crappies bite like dead
minnows This great because many of those men
go sening for deceased before they reach the mnnow
box And we've hit method of keeping them for future
use Wrap packages of about dozen in aluminium foil and
quick-freeze them. Then when far away and
live bait you and the small fry pocket packet
or two and go fishing.
Epigems
If cold, efficient and businesslike they
not in love"-ThomaS Vaughan.
WEDNESDAYS Marjorie Holmes that the flowers she cuItotes
ere unfoihfu be depended upon In "of Love and
Laughter"