Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1948 — Page 5

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SUNDAY, OCT. 31, 1948

Blind ‘Aunt Della’ ’ ‘Just Keeps.Going’

Sightless Elwood Farm Woman

Keeps House and Raises Chicks

By DONNA MIKELS ELWOOD, Oct. 30—1 was lost on a winding side road in Tipton County when I noticed a quaint, sun-bonneted figyre working in the

"yard of a neat old-fashioned home.

Driving into the yar tions. She stopped her inted: Pozen, they live just two miles many of those as I used to. A on, in a white farm house. Just/couple of summers ago I got 140 stay on this road, past that or- eggs one day. Now I sell about chard down there and turn left 30 dozen a week ih the summer.” on -the crossroad. It's just two, Aunt Della, who'll turn 73 In miles on.” ¢ ‘March, doesn’t believe it's worth I thanked her, found the cross- mentioning that she raised her road and reached my original des- chicks, does her own washing and tination. But one thing puzzled ironing and keeps up a.nine-room me. _ we rivondian house. v } . =» HM > - Ea - THE SPOT to which she had] ‘IAAND, It's nothing to what I

» ,, used to get done. I only canned pointed as the “orchard” wasn t some peaches and put up some an orchard-at-all—it-was.a field .opn in the locker-this fall. Used with most of the trees gone. {to be I'd can everything there was

When I mentioned the incident/on the farm.

I wajked over to the fence to ask direcrk, thought -a minute, then turned ‘and

; . you've done things so long, youl "res remarked: n . , can do them with your eyes! h, you must have stopped at ;|oged, I guess. That's just about| Aunt Della Suttons. She's blind, what I've tried to do since my| Fou know. seem possible. I re [yes started going bad—catar-, e "lets. i membered the quick, brisk sweep-| ‘ an» ing she'd been giving the walk,| «WHAT FOLKS don't know is the stiffly starched apron and her that because something goes A ER d land give up. y lands, it isn’t face, but I remembered the bright anything that I go on trying to do smile and wave as I sald goodby. my work instead of quitting.

an a “It's like my pa used to say. He THE NEIGHBOR must have was getting up in yearh -and Td

noticed my look of doubt. She sg him why he didn't slow down continued: land rest. “You'd never guessed it by| “I never understood it then but watching her, but Aunt Della|T do now. He'd always tell me, hasn't been able to see. for 25 ‘Dell, it'll be the hardest thing years. The orchard was.there 25 you can ever do, to quit workyears ago. Aunt: Della’s one of ing'” the best housekeepers we've got| around here, Takes care of her

chickens and keeps house so well Presbyterians it puts me to shame. She's a won- To Hear Speaker:

der, that woman is.” a I though of Aunt Delia as | Presbyterians and their friends ass y a Ww a , dropped in. She had just brought will hear talks by Mrs. Helen in a big basket of eggs from the Scott Saulsbury, who recently rechicken house. I noticed for the turned from 14 months in India, first Hine, that Se, rested tie | Thursday in the First and TaberBN 9 fence or nacle Presbyterian Churches. ph a » Mrs. Saulsbury, whose home is - in Temple, Tex., will speak at the WHEN she heard what. her 4 week service at 7:15 p. m. in neighbor had said Aunt Della dhe Tabernacle Church and at a laughed and exclaimed: ,. .|téa at 2 p. m. in the First Church. ‘Land sakes a grass, I don't do| phe speaker was sent by the anything but just keep the house preghyterian denomination as a so we can get in and cut and-fiX yhlunteer worker to be stationed enough for us to eat.” Her face jn the East Punjab. While there, darkened as she added: she visited both government and “I don’t keep things like I used mission hospitals in all but two 2 of the major cities of India. She “Ray—that's my son-—he does has described her work and what all the farming. I just take care she saw overseas in meetings all of my chickens. Don’t have as'over the United States.

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