THE SiSLfiX HEWS
AUOnST 16, 1962
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SeQuoYflH Ridge
HOfTlE FOR SflLG
3 BEDROOMS - 3 baths
Panel Electric Heat Plus Large
Fireplace
Completely Furnished Including
Linens and Kitchen Utensils
Large Lot - Beautiful View
On Paved Road-
Dri ve Out U.S* 64. Towards Pranklin-
Turn on Webbmont Road--
Look for Sign on Property
§21,500 - TERMS
Contact Tour Realtor or Ovmer
Eo
Phone 4^78 —— Highlands., N. C* or
WH .It^OQ » Pggnpano Beachy Fla.
(«BTJT WHAT DO YOU 20..^C0N«T FROM PA. l)
you don*t paint, what DO you do with your
time down there?”
soup? husband wants some*'* By that
time I was as fond of Suzy as all the rest
of the classj so I made her a present of
my cherished "Joy of Cooking” and I hope
she learned how to make cabbage soup* But
I*ve often thought that people who raise
their eyebrows at the "goings on" in art
school life classes should visit a class
some time and get rid of their misappre
hensions*
And I idsh more of my northern rela
tives and friends would visit Highlands
and see vhat goes on in the summer so
they*d stop asking me '*Why DON*T you
paint 4 There isn*t anything else to do
down there in the summer*"
2ii the first place, they donH under
stand about a garden* It*s wonderful to
take a kettle of boiling water out to .the
garden, fill it idth shuckod corn and eat
that com, swoet as sugar, for dinnerj
and to have your own big beefsteak toma
toes ripening faster than you can eat
then, and tender young peas and beans
that molt in your mouth | but my New York
I could tell them what I do in the win- City friends don*t know they grow in gar
ter, but they wouldn* t believe it: I saw
and split wood and lug in endless armfulls
of logs to pile on the fireplace fire and
stoke the old wood stove in the kitchen;
instead of a bathing suit, I live in two
pairs of wool slacks and three sweaters—
at onee—* I shovel snow and bring in
buckets of spring water to fill, up the
bath tub "in case"—and then call the
plumber to thaw out the frozen pipes* And
if I don*t paint during the winter, it is
because my fingers are too cold to hold a
brush and the oil paint is too stiff to
squeeze out of the tubes*
Sunmiers, of course, it is a little
harder to explain why I don*t paint. I
WANT to4 Why else did I, after a long day
in an office, spend my evenings struggling
paint "Suzy," our famous model at the
League?
Let me tell you about Suzy* Suzy had
a beautiful face and really pink and white
skin, but when I knew her, she was getting
on towards sixty, extremely fat, and a
beloved, but very odd character* She had
been a model for Howard Chandler Christy
and other well-knovni painters of that period, (that I don*t do, but let me exaggerate
and shw was very scornful of the struggling a little)*.*anyhow, 1*11 stop griping
beginners at the school. right now and PAINT. But I wish my family
The first time I met Suzy, lay first ex>- and friends up north would come and visit
perience in a life class, I had come into me* Like the visitors to a Life Class,
the room during a rest period and had been they*d get rid of a few misapprehensions*
dsns, they just buy them at the A&P* They
don’t know how many days and weeks of dig
ging, planting, hoei£ig, weeding, dusting
and spraying it takes to get these good
•sregetables on the table* And as they never
see the grass outside of Central Park,
that do they know about all the mowing,
weeding, trimming, clipping, and raking it
takes to have a real live lawn of your
own?
And, of coin*se, now that they have
begun to realize that Highlands is not on
the ocean but in the mountains, they pic
ture me loafing on Main Street in a fancy
hillbilly costume with nothing to do but
gossip with my cronies* They never dream
of CIVIC PROJECTS I How can I make them
understand that there are weekly Bake
Sales to be baked for, endless meetings
to plan. House & Garden Tours, Library
Teas, Benefit Bridges, Hospital Bazaars,
Church Suppers, Art Shows — ah, there
it is...this is the time to PAINT A PIC*-
TUREl But is there time to paint between
making cookies, spraying for potato bugs,
making posters, baking a chocolate cake.
told to take a place near the model stand
and just sketch* I found a seat about
three feet from the stand and when the rest
period was over, in came Suzy, dressed in
absolutely nothing but a big floppy straw
hat Mth one red rose sticking up straight
from the brim* I was aghast, flustered,
and wished I could crawl into a hole, but
none of the young men and women around me
seemed in the least concerned, so I started
to draw* At the next rest period, Suzy
turned to me and said, "Dearie, do you
really like me in this hat~I don*t think
it suits me," She was like that. Months
later, she was posing for us one evening,
in the n\ide as usual, and suddenly she ask
ed, "Does anybody know how to make cabbage
Frustrated Grandma Moses, 23rd
NISS moox TO APPEAR ON TV
Miss Colin Wilcox, who carried one
of the lead roles on the "Dr* Kildare"
series which appeared on NBC TV this
spring, will appear on the re-run of
that program tonight, (8:30 p*m*)* She
will also appear the following Ihursiay
evening on the re-run of "The Untouch
ables" on which she was seen this spring#
Mr. and Mrs* John Cleckley and child
ren Laura and Jack of Augusta, Ga* are spenc'
ing the week with Mr* and Mrs* Loiiis Bd-
w^ds, Sr*