What A Grandma Is A grandmother, according to a little bulletin sent out by the Hutchinson, Kansas, Leisure Years Center, is a lady who has no children of her own, so she likes other people's little boys and girls. A grandfather is a man for a grandmother. He goes for walks with boys and they talk

Now White is White? A minister said that once he had a small white Highland terrier which he kept spotlessly clean by frequent washing, brushing, and powdering. One night a winter storm dropped a fresh blanket of snow on the country side, and the next morning the whole world seemed to glisten under

"I recall, as a little barefoot boy with a cowlick of snow-white hair on my forehead, standing erect in my classroom and repeating the "Pledge of Allegiance" one Thanksgiving season. Our nation was at war and times were hard. My teacher had lost her husband on the blood washed shores of Normandy. As

The following are actual statements found on insurance forms where drivers attempted to summarize the details of an accident in the fewest words possible: Coming home, I drove into wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have. I thought my window was down, but found it was up when

Bad Breaks A boy in Decatur, Illinois, was deeply interested in photography. He answered an ad in a magazine, ordering a book on photography. The publisher made a mistake and sent him instead a book about magic and ventriloquism, and he began practicing the art of throwing his voice. He created

Tithe in the Spirit of Love The Sevenfold Blessing Of The Tithe 1. It blesses the heart by making it receptive to God's will. 2. It blesses the life by lifting it to a higher plane of grace. 3. It blesses the hands by making them willing to do God's work. 4. It blesses the mind by giving it the s

Salt seems a simple substance, but you may be surprised by some of the facts found in Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky. For instance, salt is present throughout the human body and is needed for virtually every physical function. As another example, it takes weeks of immersion in a salt

Earl Palmer in his book The Enormous Exception wrote the following about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which is built directly upon the fault zone of the San Andreas fault: It is built to sway some twenty feet at the center of its one-mile suspension span. The secret to its durabili

Christian psychiatrists Drs. Frank B. Minirth and Paul D. Meier insist that any patient of theirs who is a Christian must be honest and use language that expresses the reality of the situation. In their book Happiness is a Choice the authors' state, "…we cringe whenever patients use the wo

An old-timer sat on the river bank, fishing pole in hand, although the fishing season had not officially opened. A uniformed officer stood behind him quietly for several minutes. "You the game warden?" the man inquired. "Yes sir." Unruffled, the old man began to move the fishing pole from side t