New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

Blarney attempts to tell anything ~
my husband"
While Miss Irwin was talking. Wit,
the sunlight streaming into the tyelyE1
floor room of the hotel, the Trihnna
reporter was able to look at her ana
island in the St. Lawrence for pons
see why she remains in the front RAM
Of condolences. She tells of her twa
married sons, Of her grandchildrs,
and admits that she has owned an
many more years than the writer l.
old Che takes part in elections) ava
yet it would be difficult to belieye bss
old enough unless she said so hersaE
as she does.
Il have been very fortunate in life
and | am satisfied" said Miss Trw;n
Not one minute more than her WOW
on the stage and her extensive resi
estate transactions make necessary
does Miss Irwin stay in the city. 4,
the very first opportunity she rushes
up to the farm and even now s1e ia
speeding northward to meet her hue
band and then to go on to see Blarnev
and Colleen, the thirty head Of rtgis.
tered Jersey cattle, the twi1 calves ana
the mare which she and her husband
raised themselves.
the farm with her two tried and trIstsS
recipes, one for real beer, given % her
by brewer IN Cincinnati, and tbs
other for whisky, given to her by a
dlstiller in Louisville. Yet Miss irwin
| takes only an occasional cocktail II
she ever touches the "evil stuF'' a.
all. a.
But my friends do," she said by wsv
Of explanation. va!
Look out for explosions when 70,
try out the recipes" Miss Irwin was
warned. "'
"Oh, there's lots of room up On ire
tarm. III try them out in the open
the minute ] reach the farm. TNts
the beauty of living on farm. There's
plenty Of room, none Of the riot and
noise of the city; no trouble with tele-
phone operators, and regular hours
People. would live longer if they lived
in more leisurely way and in the open
| spaces"
If any citizen of family finds himself
without place of shelter to-day, onr
day after the traditional moving day,
perhaps he can negotiate with Miss
Irwin to buy her magnificent $4,000
house on her island. She built il when
them there. Now that they are mar.
ried and have homes of their own, she
doesn't keep up the big establishment,
when / built the house l probably
did not realize that my boys woult
grow up and leave me-"
Kurt Eisfeldt. May Twins husband,
manager of the con the Hiring
Line" company during its tour, has
been on the farm for the last week
getting things III shape for the sum
mer's stay.
He is a skillful, scientific farmer
says his wife. "a whip has never been
seen on our farm. That beautiful black
mare 1 was telling you about the farm
hands think vicious, but we know that
she is playful and full of life. One
day my husband harnessed her with her
mate and drove them into town and
back again. She had never been of
the farm and had never seen an auto
mobile. Yet she was broken to harness
and performed very nicely on the road,
all without the use of a whip"
The farm is the ideal place to live.
May Irwin says, and her great interest
in life, outside of the stage, is her own
particular farm. She is also the owner
of much real estate IN this city. Re
Gently she sold property here for
S350,000
IL an one of the few landlords who
have not raised rents" she said.