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he screen door slams aunt Nancy is thcr ll back porch, carrying g ay lemonade and cookie§§ the kids in for a snack. Then I‘ slams again. and l‘m up at theizbotgaggg’ stepping out on the deck with a%% morning cup of coffee in my 3&5 watch the rrtist rise off the lak ” ten for loons Few sounds are as able memories in my head as the‘ screen door makes when it clo ' that familiar creakâ€"and-slam s I am whisked back in time to mer job I had on a farm, and: ings of heading out to the field i the morning, and coming ho ' dusty evening, exhausted after of working outside. ' Apparently I am not the o / associate the sound and the 1 0E of a wooden screen door with 'ohsant memories, Whether omately to resemble something Ann Gables might have been familgr designed to be aesthetically pldé trig as much as to keep flies out, or s e and utilitarian, screen doors are affiéaring on the front and back doors “#6: s all over fliese days, replacin igld aluminum screens on the front skid ing screensto the back yard. The screen door we h installed on our own house came just in time for what passed as summer this a are sum- them, for no one this. They can take better care of them than you can it 15 gone Concentrate on w nally had to ask me to stop because I was giving them a headache. Now, it has been said that you can‘t go home again. and I found that to be true with regard to the screen door. Each door has its own special sound when it shuts, and the addition of springs, latches, and hooks will give each door its own special rattle and squeak. The screen at the cottage had a lazy, elongated squeak to the spring that closed it which perfectly suited the relaxed mood of the place. Being old and rusty, the spring would invariably fail to kccp the door closed all the way, and the sound the door made was a kind of half»hearted bang followed by a wheezy squeak as the door swung back out a couple of inches The farm screen door was much used and well-oiled. and had an effie cient. over-achieving doublerbangrrattlc to it When the door slammed shut it was held tight as the spring pulled it notorious for her cleanliness and averr sion to bugs. and it had to be a quick fly VaA rviY TEN COMMANDMENTS aticedoor closing devices on ked a bit like a bicycle pump ompressed air to close the I sighed and wheeled asthmati- the screen firmly against the lit this being Aunt Nancy‘s mple hook was not good enough totlock the door at night. No sir. her screeniliad a very fancy brass handle and [hambelatch affair which clicked intu place-when the door closed, so the sound Adm Nancy‘s door made was a i akâ€"whee7erslarnv click sound which I‘m sure could not be reproduced anywhem‘else. n new screen door is still in s of figuring out what kind of _ ill call its own. At this point it still makes a vibrating double bump against the weather-stripping around the jamb, :a sound that will change as the strippingoi/cars down and some kind of latch affair is added to the door. ' ’ far as I am concerned - and interior evidence to the con- ihc house is now complete, de so‘by the addition of a screen oer, whose own, unique slamming “soundfyl'hope is being recorded favourably in the memories of my own children. Thou shalt not worry, for wbrry is the most unproductive of all human activities. Thou shalt not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass. . ' Thou shalt not cross bridges before you get to yet has succeeded in accomplishing Thou shalt face each roblem as it co . handle only one at a tirrlie, anyway. mes you can Thou shalt not take problems to bed with you for they make very poor bedfellows, Thou shalt not borrow other people‘s problems. Thou shalt not try to relive yesterday {or good or ill, life today, Thou shalt count thy blessings, never overlooka the small arm, for a lot ofsrnali blessings add up to a big one, V Thou shalt be a‘Qood listener, {or only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own. It's very hard to learn something new when you‘re talking. ‘ Thou shalt not become bowd down by frustra- tion, for 90 per cent of it is rooted in self-pity and it will only interfere wrth positive action. ,\ iELODlE ARMSTRONG VA hat is happening in your