Random Thoughts
I'll bet you're getting tired of seeing my picture in the paper. I imagine things will quiet down after the TV show is over.
Australia has its crocodiles and alligators but Kansas will not be outdone. A couple of researchers were wading in the Neosho River out by Hays, when all at once one man felt something biting his foot. He managed to leap to the river bank. On examination he found a 30-pound flathead catfish clinging to his foot. It's sharp teeth didn't penetrate his wading boots.
The new school auditorium has been started. My question is where will people park? The school people already park on Main Street as far west as Central Park.
I'm reading a book about Chinese women, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." It takes place during the time that women were binding their feet. How terrible that must have been. Children as young as five years were started. Such a strange custom. It took two years for the feet to heal. In the story a five-year-old girl dies of infection started in the crippled feet.
Their names had to have meaning. They were usually beautiful names like Beautiful Moon, Snow Flower, and Lilly. There was the custom of arranging marriages while the children were quite young.
We worry about our modern young people with their independence and freedom of choice.
Different cultures and customs are interesting. Which way is the best?
— NORMA HANNAFORD
