Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1941 — Page 15

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By Marguerite Gahagan

CHAPTER ONE FEELING THE FROSTY glass under my hands and the luxury of those elegant chairs into which one. can sink low and still look graceful, .I was all prepared. for a chatty half hour with the girls; catching ‘up on: the gossip and news now that I was no longer with them, 4 LT +I remembered ‘how much a half hour like that. means to a school teacher ‘at: the end of a: hard week

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But I never did drink that tall, cold concoction with all the pleasure I anticipated. A sprig of fresh mint, floating on top of a glass i of limeade, should be a finishing touch to a refreshing drink, but to me that fragrance brought back the whole drama of Paradise Lake. I suppose memories of Paradise Lake and fresh mint will always affect me that way. And the sound of Finn McCool, Maudie’s black, button-eyed Scottie, thumping the floor will always cause the hair fo

stand up on the back of my neck.|

Paradise ‘Lake was supposed to be quiet. We had the assurance of dozens of friends who had gone there during the past 20 years and who took pride in the fact that dance halls, hot dog stands and juke boxes had no place: there, At least that was the information Maudie brought home. : Maudie is our mother and we three are her children. At Jeast she still calls us children, although looking at that touch of gray over my left ear, I can’t rightly say

that any one of us is in the adoles-|

cent. stage. The boys—Thomas and William— started out as mewspapermen, fol-

lowing in the steps of our late| ~ JE father, James O’Connor.: But then|

William went into advertising and Thomas into promotion. Mary, was nothing more interesting than a teacher. » o ”

MAUDIE PROBABLY would have preferred a livelier place than Parardise Lake because udie, -whil she can look like a Park :Avenu dowager when her whité. hair curled and she’s sporting ‘one "those ‘exclusive little numbers t manage to give lines to an 180 pound chassis, is really. child of the family. 8 people—any kind of people, and citement. A ohik I taught Lit, I in school and knowledge of nature was: out Shelley 1and Wordsworth and’ from experience, so. that the : "week of going back to the soil. enough to keep me occupied. When I finally emerged from m seven-day coma, I looked arpund see how Maudie was standing quiet. She had been very firm our arrival as to her intention reduce. : “Salads, liquids, and rowing will do it,” she said. “And for you I'll »fix another menu with Jersey milk, and home-made bread and pies and cakes, and real country butter—" “Just where,” I demanded, “do you intend getting all these delicacies!

There’s no Women's Exchange or little tea shoppe to order from.” “The bread ' woman,” she ‘announced calmly, “She-lives over the hill in the most cinating old brick house. Of ‘course it’s a job fo push the door open to get in. The place is simply jammed with junk, But the kitchen’s clean and so’s the food. And she has peacocks. I saw

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