Evening star., 1952-08-10
By Jesse Font Eyons

/ BRANDON. Whore and more
people are echoing Calvin Cool
idge's statement: Vermont is a
State ] love-"
| We Evans, and our cousin Miss
Virginia Willis. are living q rural
life on q farm amid the Green
Mountains. Dairy herds and
barns surround us. for this is
great dairying country. The farm,
Stoney Fields, is owned by Col.
Paul E. Howe, who. with Mrs.
Howe, has made it productive as
we'll as beautiful.
My banker husband, in common
with the rest of this community,
has been helping scythe hay, ours
being the WaiSt-high grass in our
front and side yards. Virginia
Willis, a Ia Maude Mueller, has
been raking 1t up into haycocks.
that our across-the-road neighbor
will frugally remove as soon as it
has dried out in the bright sun
shine. He will use it as a covering
for the ice he will cut from his
pond during the late winter.
These sturdy Vermonters waste
nothing and teach wise lessons Of
thrift.
While all Of the 'haying" was
going on at Stoney Fields. !
chose to wash Harriet Howe's
really outstanding collection Of
old American china and glass. ac-
formulated at : auction in this
neighborhood some years ago, and
displayed on open shelves above
and beside the living room book
cases. Neither Betsy Caswell nor
Violet Faulkner of The Stars
Homemaking Department would
have given me an E for Efficiency.
since I was constantly interrupting
my washing and drying to consult
several of the convenient nearby
books on patterns and designs.
Nocturnol Visitors
To indicate how truly we are in
the midst Of forests and farms,
ISelectman Reginald Hooker and
his wife. Laura. who are our near
est neighbors with q telephone.
are having to burn flares at night
to ward of the depredations Of a
doe and her two young fawns upon
their garden area. In their last
foray, the deer completely dug up
all the rows Of young beets and
ate much of their tender green
leaf lettuce. Fortunately the
Hookers' carrots. cabbage, corn
and string beans are spared to
date, as are their potato hills. The
doe is becoming more and more
artful in combating the humans
and is now bringing her young in
the late dawn just after the flares
have burned themselves out, so it
lis necessary to set larger ones
nightly. Mr.. Hooker answered my
oerhapS tactless reference to the
similarity Of this marauding with
that in 1.-THE Yearling" story and
movie. with the dry remark. "as a
Iselectman it is my duty to impose
justice when Q neighbor's cow
devastates q garden but what
lretribution have I against a doe
and her young? If she were a buck
I could shoot her and we could
eat deer steak"
We ourselves have acquired q
dog at meal times, and for longer
periods beforehand. although he
ltrots of Immediately after he has
polished OF the plate we regularly
set forth for him at the base Of
the kitchen porch. A combination,
apparently. Of collie and chow. he
is even getting to the point. where
he wiggles his ears impatiently
at US at times as II to say. Hurry
up. aren't you q bit slow on service
Itoday?" He would be q model,
though. for children who hang
back on eating their vegetables
and milk, for he goes after his
with gusto and Is evidently often
quite disguised there aren't Sec
Iopds Forthcoming.
House In Period
This article is being written IN
the one-time "parlor" of this COM
modious old farm house. whose
characteristics its present owners
are respecting in their moderni-
cation. For instance, I ana sitting