Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

were horrified to see flames shooting up from the chair in the den. Bill's favorite chair! "We dragged the chair outside — it was ruined — but we were so thankful to have caught it! We never knew whether West carried a hot coal home in his pocket, or what. Besides the ruined chair, there was a big hole in the rug!" Brenda sighed. But the biggest hole was in our budget." These are the days when, with the two older children at school, Brenda worries just a little about Scott, her youngest, loafing resignedly about in his mite-sized blue jeans, kicking at gravel and leaning against posts — bored as only a young fellow can be with everybody else at school. "Sometimes I watch him," says Brenda, "and you can almost tell he's counting minutes until he's old enough to go, too!" Virginia studies ballet, and loves it. Recently her father made some slow motion home-movies of her dancing. This film is her treasure. stit! another antique . . . One of Brenda's favorite parts of the house is the little powder room and halfbath which opens off the den. Here the carpeting is deep green and shaggy; the flower-patterned walls are done in tiny red and green figures on oilcloth; there are frilly curtains and a dream of a dressing table, long and luxurious; and the plumbing fixtures are pink. Even here there's an antique — a man's brass shaving stand, unique and handsome. Upstairs, the landing with its large Audubon print and two striped windowseats leads on to three separate, colorfullyfurnished suites. Brenda and Bill have one, the boys another, and Virginia the third — with a sun porch for everybody. All over the house are the bright little faces of the Toby mugs Brenda used to collect. Bill's former hobby was collecting guns, according to Brenda, they're both between hobbies right now, until new fancies strike. Though practically everything in the house is something they have bought together, Brenda and Bill each have something they especially prize, the selection of which was entirely the choice of the other. Brenda's is an ancient silver-fox jacket — one of Bill's first presents to her. "I took it down to a tailor the other day." Brenda related ruefully, "with the idea of giving the old jacket a new look, and surprising Bill. The tailor handed it right back to me. 'You couldn't pay me enough to work on that, Mrs. Holden — it's falling apart!' he said. It was, too, so I just put it away again, with the same old look." Bill's special prize is worn on the third finger of his left hand. It's a wide wedding band which he has had inscribed with Roman numerals for each year of their marriage. He never wore any rings at all until one day during the war, when a lonesome and tearful Brenda travelled East to see him, and half-fearfully gave him the ring. It's never been off his finger since. 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