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"As if 'Blondie' weren't busy enough, she had Cleo Kerley in to give her expert food lessons."
"I wouldn't know what to do if I couldn't hurry home from school, swear Mother to secrecy, and tell her everything that's on my mind."
MY mother has a variety of names. Socially she is Mrs. Robert S. Sparks. Professionally she is Miss Penny Singleton. But. mostly she is known by the name of an empty-headed radio character which she plays over NBC every Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. EST (5:00 PST), Blondie Bumstead.
My mother has a variety of accomplishments. One afternoon, for instance, when I was sick in bed with a cold, and feeling doubly miserable because the afternoon was so dark and stormy, she came to my room with paper and pencil and suggested that we write a poem about the weather.
Perhaps some of my friends wouldn't be interested in passing time striving for rhyme, but I've always been around people who have sort of a literary approach to life, so it seemed like a fine idea.
I didn't turn out anything it would give anyone the least pleasure to remember, but Mother outdid herself as usual. This is what she wrote:
By
DOROTHY GRACE SPARKS
Dear little rain drops
Falling from the skies,
Are you tears of happiness
From the angels' eyes?
Do you to us a message bring?
Clinging to each earthly thing
Seen and yet unseen?
Must mortals to the unknown land
Journey on, to understand?
I don't know another girl my age who has a poetry-writing mother and a mother who is also an actress, a singer, an equestrienne, a fashion expert, a child psychologist, a postcard painter, a stamp collector, a button collector, a quick change artist, and the source of a million laughs.
You might think all these interests would keep Penny Singleton very busy. They don't. She is always looking around for something else to do.
For instance: it is sometimes difficult to keep a maid, so Mother decided (Continued on page 92)
A growing-up daughter is likely to be her mother's severest critic.
But Penny Singleton Sparks, weighed by young Dorothy Grace, is found
perfect
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