Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1941 — Page 35

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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941 _ ABBIE AN' SLATS

AS YOU SEE BY THE REACTION OF THE PUBLIC--LAM A GENIUS” “THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST SURLESQUE OF A CLASSICAL MUSICIAN? 21

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THE DEATH WATCH

A WOMAN of great beauty was Una Dhonn. [Ny 1S_ABOUT NINETEEN I do not say this merely because i TO START! BOYS AGAINST ghe was my grandmother, for from y ONE! my earliest recollection until her death at the age of £8 wher I was| 14 I recall that her charm and personality won the palm from every man, woman and child in Carrig-An-Affrin. Eo Her finely chisled features were|” gentle in repose. When red anger struck, her great brown eyes closed to two small slits. Her thin lips became compressed mto a fine straight line, and it was not neces-| < gary for her to breathe one word, for her expression withered ‘the transgressor. It was seldom indeed that she was seen in that grim mood for it was difficuit to ruffle or excite her. It was only in the face of rank inJustice that she assumed that poise. Most of the time her countenance bespcke cheer and hospitality and when she laughed, which was often, there was no. trepidation in it. Her laughter came from the bottom of he® heart and reverberated like a silver bell. Tall she was—almost 5 feet 11—| | 723 — 2 ; and graceful. Even the heavy| [77 2 : y > 1 & burden of the years had been un- 7 7 | 2p ou 3 - able to bow her head or droop her ' ) ar

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“It’s the same every pay day—one note and I get run over!”

By William Ferguson

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

shoulders. Time also had failed to make but slight ravages on the clustered brown hair. ,

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TO EVERY ONE in the barony she was a ministering angel. The gentle, patient woman who came to their aid in the hour of need, who helped usher their offspring into the world, and who prepared their dead for the eternal sleep. ; A knowledge of herbs she. had ‘which was beyond the understanding of learned men, for although §t was scant book-learning she had, ‘yet she made healing salves from .the herbs and mosses and her treatment of wounds invariably brought relief and recovery. It was neither reward nor praise that she sought. Sufficient for her. was the knowledge that she had “lightened the €ross.” i I was her favorite grandchild. ; Maybe it was because I was the youngest. Or perhaps it was be- FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS cause my name was Owen and that ’ - . ; be ; - I was named after the grandfather ey a who was her husband. i Owen More (“Big=Oweén”, he was called and although he had been dead over 50 years and there was ~ no other one of that name within miles, to her I was always Owen Beag (Little Owen). _ At the age of 93 she took to her “bed one day after she had walked home the nine miles from a funeral in the glen. : ‘ “It is how I will not be going gallivanting anymore, Una,” she said to my mother. “It is how the death-man is coming on me at. last and it was myself that fooled him the long time”’—and she chuckled. -#Send Tim for the priest, Una,” she said. :

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COUNTY FARM YOUTH T0 STAGE FESTIVAL

Marion County farm boys in overalls and girs in gingham dresses will frolic at a barn dance to be sponsored by the Marion County Rural Youth Club tomorrow night in the home of Miss Gladys Schuh, 5840 Rockville Road.

All young men and women be~ tween 18 and. 30 who live on farms in Marion County and those with taming interests have been invited.

else for Una Dhonn, Owen Beag,"” she said. “Get me the looking-glass and the comb.” ? I held the mirror while she combed her hair. “Now get me the white linen cap I made last year with the Limerick lace and the tassel on it, Owen Beag,” she said. I brought her the cap and helped her put it on. “Get me my Sunday cloak” out of the chest now, Owen Beag.” . I wrapped the black cloak around her shoulders. : “Now tie the buckle under: my chin, Owen Beag.”, I did as she told me. She smiled at me then.

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Fen BOOTS” AND HER ‘BUDDIES ~ THERE WAS no gainsaying a re- LAND. SAMES® TWO quest of that kind in our part of OF MGW Ireland. It did not take my father long to go nor did it take the priest long to come. That night the neighbors came from far and near. A lot of them wanted to stay until morning. to keep, the watch, “Arrah—It is how I will not be bothering ye like that at all,” my grandmother said. “It is no campany I will want tonight except Owen Beag. Wil ye sit and hold the watch with me until the dawn-

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ing, Owen Beag?” she asked me. “I will sit and hold the watch with you,” I replied. Wheén everyone had gone to bed I sat watching Una Dhonn with the flames of the fire laughing and sticking out their tongues at me. * “Get my pipe out of the hob-hole and light it, Owen Beag,” she said.

1 took the pipe out of the "hob-

hole lit it and: gave it to her. _ “Musha—It is how an old woman do get great comfort out of a smoke of the pipe, Owen Beag,” she said. “It is not from ‘the taste of the tobacco at all. It is from the pictures one do see in the smoke. It . “is ‘many the time I sat beside the fire when the rest of ye were in bed and lit BP: pipe and watched the piotures, “It “is often I saw Owen More running with the hurley across the field like he was the first time I saw him 75 years ago.” Joo wow. Cam SHE HANDED me the pipe then and fell asleep, She awoke at the

Dhonn is getting light in the head, Owen Beag,”, she chuckled. “If is not that at all. It is short now until Eveleen Bawn do be in to see how I am. It is 75 years since she put the challenge on me when the two of us were casting eyes at Owen More and us about the one age.’ It was no fear that was on me then and I won from her. I would have Eveleen Bawn know it is how there is no fear on me now either.”

. _ Tomorrow: Wealth is more to this man than a simple matter of addition. “Better Than Gold,” = by Athlyn Deshais. (All events, names and characters in this story are. fictitious.) GIVEN PORTRAIT JOB

Miss Frances H. Norris, 3331 Guilford Ave., has received a commission

to paint the portrait of David Shep-

ard, son of Howard Shepard, New

York Cify-banker. Miss Norris, a Herron Art titute,

“A “hill-billy” orchestra will play while the dances are called by Vance Lockhart, Paul Norris and Kenneth Truax. Warren Heath,

eral chairman. \ The club will arrange a picnic at Long Acre Park, south of Indian-

apolis, July 13.

1567 ENROLLED IN

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 20.— Enrollment for Indiana University’s summer session today totaled 1567 compared to 1884 last summer, Registrar Thomas A..Cookson said the drop in enroliment apparently was due to the large ' number of Drospective students called to Army uty. Late registrations are expected to

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