What Is a Mother January by Alan Beck is said, are made of gs and spice and everything nice. By the time all the sugar and spice has worn off, the become mothers and all they have left is everything nice, but that lasts forever. Mothers cook, clean, wash, mend, dream, punish, wheedle, improvise, cajole, and make things go twice as far as a man could. Children are what they read to, listen for, play with, watch over, think about, pray for, worry with, do without because of, and 3:00 e215 3:45 brag to the neighbors about. A bobby pin and gummed tape are Mother’s kit of tools: in- 4:15Hi is her Declaration of Independence. All mothers, from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, have the reputation of being wonderful cooks. The older we become and 4:30 the farther we wander, the more scrubbed our ears, dressed in decades, Mother meets another man M her eyes, once dancing, JANUA T IS 5:45 3:15 ful pro ta a ; Che ff pele ohh P,) 2 Atlirrelly Sn cho-cweA_. Kin, He rt f° DL 3:45 thug tet fat fr_ 4:00 pce cel 4:15 0 ii Cheer Sorvnttobeted, 4:30 4:45 atk | 5:00 2 Bette (ied acd dkall ste take 5:15 se ah. ate by a A i t- i) ones FF Ouay LEAS Sir Ch ie 3:30 | LAA oP, if Aue 4 A | big e Lycefaathy& an Yr thaws ee &@ dul sneer _b-Roud (feo 2K Work, AAvhed 5:30 5:45 6:00 6:15 6:30 be- 6:45 $2795 6:45 7:00 V2: 30 7:00 7:15 12:45 7:15 300 7:30 1:15 7:45 a 7:3 i 7:45 Seeemenee 8:00 1:30 8:00 a Es are tired because 8:30 1:45 8:15 2:00 8:30 Seen: 2:95 8:45 2:30 9:00 2:45 9:15 8:45 9:000 9:15 eer” Se OL ie fecceecaty Y. Ynubhalea G biutkK hrru suthbke ald Bu Jil 3:00 Soba lad Sli WUuTtke | Ansel, Ca o 7 10 li 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 e been. 7Af Cte a abt oleh af nh Ka UL :00 ; fa- Mis hath fohy £ te 9:30 10:45 sad sides Dad and this man is Old Father Time. Her fresh beauty changes after she and Old Father Time get to be good friends. There are little cut lines on her thumb made by the paring knife and winter winds roughen her cheeks when she hangs out the clothes. She doesn’t carry the grocery bags so jauntily as when you were skipping along by her side. And Lug <> Sriday f | JULe frufo by 211A Aay : Ah eh - STA our they have seen so many, many things. Then one day Mother looks into the mirror and says to herself, “I am no longer pretty, ” and it is a sad and lonely day. Mother is seldom wrong, but she was wrong that time. The beauty of mothers is as indestructible as Faith, Hope and Love because mothers are all these things and a very great deal more. (Courtesy Parade Publications, Inc.) 2 10:00 Ys 5:15 Sunday best, and sent us packing to the nearest orphans’ home after the first two or three years of trying to convert a small Savage into a civilized boy or girl. All mothers are beautiful when they are young — remember? Then as the years turn into SV wy 9:15 9:45 5:00 convinced us 8:45 4-agt pen °: Is we are that nobody anywhere can make quite as good an apple pie (or jerked walrus goulash) as Mother. Mothers are patient souls. Lucky for all of us that a mother’s heart is as boundless as the universe itself. Anyone else would have 8:30 Me s:00 3:30 tuition is her college degree; and a new hat S — l/ eer