One never knows
You never expect to be attacked by vandals. Last Monday, my daughter Wanda, who lives in Colorado Springs, arose to find she had been attacked. The whole front of her house was covered by broken eggs and other garbage. She really knows just a few people in that city — none well enough to become enemies. What a cruel prank to play on a single lady who tries to do no one harm. She called the police, but of course there was nothing they could do.
It is interesting to know that TV stars do things just like we do. Kelly Ripa, co-star with Regis Philbin, told of placing her designer purse on top of her car while she settled her children in their car seats. She drove off, but later thought of her purse and drove back (she lives in New York) along the street she had been on, but no purse. Three days later, she was driving along the same street and saw something in the gutter. She found her purse — bedraggled and ruined — money and cards gone.
This is the 100th year of the Teddy bear. The story is that President Teddy Roosevelt was hunting bear out west, but had no luck. Some friends found a bear and tied it to a tree and told Teddy to shoot it. He couldn't do it — no sportsmanship there. So some enterprising person created a Teddy bear as a remembrance of the occasion. Margaret Wolf has a Teddy bear about her age. It is long and skinny and the hair is worn in place and really he's not very pretty. Margaret loved him anyway and kept him all these years. The nice soft Teddy bears you see now are so appealing you just want to squeeze them. Isn't it amazing how popular a toy can get — lasting 100 years. I'll bet it lasts another 100.
— NORMA HANNAFORD
