Open Session: What Readers Think
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Now, I pass your papers and all our magazines on to the art department at Garden Plain (Kan.) High School. I worked as a library aide there for 15 years. The art teacher is great, and her students do absolutely marvelous projects.
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Roberta Seiwert Lampe
Garden Plain, Kan.
Part of the household - CAPPER'S has been a part of my life for 80 years. In the mid-1920s, when I was 2 years old, my parents moved to western Kansas. We were very poor, they said. So, my folks could not afford to subscribe to CAPPER'S WEEKLY.
My grandmother Minnie Grunwald would send issues to my folks through the mail. When I was old enough to begin to read, I picked up CAPPER'S and read what I could in it.
I've been reading it ever since. When I moved from Kansas to Colorado, CAPPER'S was the first paper to get my new address, and each time I've moved, CAPPER'S has moved with me.
Now, I am 82 years old, and I just finished reading all of the issue I received today. I work the puzzles and crosswords, and I read the recipes. I don't cook much now - I have no husband and my three children are away from home. I read the recipes anyway, though, and I think about how good they would taste.
CAPPER'S comes first when I get it; my dishes and dusting have to wait.
Vernetta Harper
Montrose, Colo.
Thank you - I want to take a moment to thank you for printing my request for apron rings. To date, I have had 13 responses - the first six arrived even before we received our copy of CAPPER'S. What a pleasant way to find out my request made it in.
I received two SASEs from dear ladies who are also looking for the rings, and I've forwarded the information on to them. Several ladies sent me apron rings, one of whom worked for CAPPER'S 40 years ago. She told us about Arthur Capper's children's homes. I've received catalog pages, rings, addresses for catalogs, and an envelope full of inspirational poems from a person who chose to remain anonymous, so much so that even the postage stamp escaped cancellation. To this person I say, 'Thank you.' My preacher husband shall be using one of those poems. I have thanked the others personally, but do so again publicly.