European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes monday May 12, 1986 today s crossword Flowers a map for for Siope Brand Rooney i m no a person who enjoys digging in Llie Garden Al summer at watering House Plant All Winter but i like the people who do. They re almost always Good gentle people you can read stories in the newspaper any Day that provide evidence enough far anyone to conclude that the world is filled with evil people about to destroy it with nuclear weapons. You find stories of brutal crimes child abuse and dishonesty in High places in business and government it s depressing. Fortunately at this Lime of year there is also ample evidence 10 the contrary. All you have to do to revive your Confidence in the human race is walk Dawn any Street i America and see the tender Loving care millions of americans arc giving to heir Flowers. Flowers Are a kind of. Metaphor for the Hope so Man people have for a Beautiful life. They try to do for Flowers what they cannot do for themselves or for each other and Flowers respond in a singularly satisfactory Way. I m often discouraged driving through the most de pressed areas of new York City to see How slovenly its residents Are and How Little they seem to have done to try to improve their own condition. But then look up at the windows and windowsills above the Grimy Street. Invariably there Are Lille splotches of color in half the win Dows where someone is trying to brighten life with a Flower. They do care. There s something incredible about a Flower. Why does it bother to be so Beautiful certainly a Bee or a Stamen seeking a pistil would be indifferent to the nuances of color in a Zinnia. And Why Are there both pansies and Hippopotamus is you can say god if you wish but that does t answer the question. It s touching to see people trying to grow Flowers i places where Flowers Don i grow naturally like windowsills but we should be careful not to hem Flowers into much or control them too carefully. Flowers Are at their Best when they grow where you least expect them. Idon t care much for Flowers that arc too carefully arranged. Florists arc sometimes guilty of this. No Florist eve fixed an arrangement As Beautiful As those that grow naturally in the Fields. The hand of Man is hard put to improve on nature when it Somes to Flowers and any Florist who Sells carnations that have been dyed Green Forst. Patrick s Day should be run out of the business. Florists must Tike Flowers or Dibsy would t be in the business but they must have to be hard hearted. They could t let dying Flowers get to them every Day. The must put the willed roses in their Glass door a refrigerator out of their mind when they close up and go Home Ever night or life would be too sad. It must be Lite a veterinarian turning out the its and leaving his animal Hospitalet the end of the Day. The Only thing that makes me uneasy about Flowers i that they die too soon. They remind me of my own mortal Ity. Any Lime Cut Flowers Are brought into our House i m torn Between pleasure at the sight of their Beauty an sadness Over How Little time they have to live. I think people s taste in Flowers changes Over the remember when i thought a dozen red roses were the most Beautiful thing in the world. I would t Knock dozen red roses now hut there Are other Flowers i like better. And i like them belter if they Don t come unfixed numbers like a dozen. Flowers Are just the apposite of arithmetic and should t be confined by it. It s encouraging to see How Many people there Are who make their concern for life apparent by helping Flowers. No one who loves a Pansy can be All bad. There is some thing basically decent about anyone who would work in the dirt for eight hours on a saturday with no other purpose in Mindl Han to help a Beautiful thing grow. D trl Bura a a Surv lit introducing the perfect husband by Art bloc Wald the reason i have a perfect marriage is that my wife believes i have a remedy for every piece of bad Luck that befalls us. Her Faith in me is particularly Strong when we re on Atrip we will be silting on the plane waiting to take off when the Pilot says ladies and gentlemen we re sorry to inform you that we Wilt be delayed or the runway for 45 my wife immediately turns to me and says what j wrong now a dumb person would reply i Don t know gut my wife would never accept that so i say we can take off until the Goodyear Blimp passes Over the super we re finally in the air and arc served our meal. My wife looks at her Laller. Why Don t they put. The sauce on the Side instead of on top of the Chicken i am prepared for this question since she s posed i Many times before. 1 Tell her Faa regulations require Hal the sauce is always to be served Over the entire Chicken so the passengers won t see the the plane lands and As is inevitably the Case in is her Sui tease rather than mine that is lost. She turns to me with fire in her eyes. What happened to my bag i Tell her they must have thrown it off the plane As we passed Over Kansas the next question is what Are you going to do about it. A wimp husband would say let s report it to the airline agent so we can get in but that solution Only arouses contempt in a woman who wants instant revenge. I Tell her Why Don t i just wrestle those three i fool pilots to the ground and perhaps one of them will fess up to who has your the fact thai i am willing to die for my wife s suit Case is one reason she trusts me with ail her questions. We Are now outside the los Angeles terminal. Why Are there no taxis Here she wants to know. You la have to admit that is a reasonable query especially since i just flew in from Washington with her a few minutes earlier. I say it s taxi night1 at the los Angeles Dodge stadium and every woman gets in free if she its a cab Driver on her a hour later we re at the hotel where As you May have already guessed our room is not ready. Let me set the scene for you. The three of us Are inthe lobby in a Circle my wife the manager and myself. Ignoring the manager my wife turns to me and says Why Ifni our roam ready i pass this question on to the manager because it obvious my wife can t talk to him since he is standing one foot away. The previous Cou pie have yet to Check out he says. I feel like a translator at the Geneva peace talks. The previous couple has yet to Check out i Tell her. The conversation continues in this Way until our rooms ready. At last we get our room and 1 assume that i do not have to answer any questions for two hours. 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