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TOMBOYS MAKE WONDERFUL LADIES
BY MRS. LOREE NELSON
In those frilly petticoats and dainty dresses , Lori looks and acts like a lady. But there are still times when Mom isn’t sure the lady is for real !
cussing their favorite subject: boys. “Where’s Lori?” I asked.
One freckled-faced little tike pointed at a group of youngsters playing baseball in an adjacent field. “Over there.”
I promptly found Lori — the only girl in the game— playing baseball with a dozen neighborhood boys. And that afternoon she was the only one who scored a home run!
While the other girls “talked boys,” Lori was out there playing baseball or football — and holding her own in every respect. She still has a scar on her leg where she cut herself falling out of a tree house, had more cuts and bruises from toppling off bicycles, horses, roof tops and what have you than any other child I’ve ever seen. And I’ve worked as a practical nurse for many years.
Nor has she changed in that respect.
A few weeks ago I visited her on
the set of “Return of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.” When I arrived at about a quarter to twelve, I couldn’t locate her anywhere. “We didn’t need her for an hour,” the assistant director told me. “Why don’t you look for her outside somewhere?”
Ten minutes later I found her playing football with some of the crew — dressed in a formal and highheeled shoes.
Although I worried for years about Lori’s tomboyishness, my husband Robert couldn’t have been any more pleased about it. For him, she turned into the son he never had.
Take Robert’s favorite sport, hunting. His collection includes almost any kind of gun from a Kentucky rifle to a Colt revolver. Lori not only can fire every one of his weapons like an expert, she can take apart, clean, give the nomenclature and explain ( Continued on page 81)
A deceptive doll. Lori can take care of herself — -she’s an expert at judo!
One problem Mom never had — daughter Lori was always popular tvith the boys