New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 5

Active Little Woman ot Age of 8 _ ~ Runs Isolated Farm of Fifty Acres \ Mrs. John R. Hughes Busy ‘With Her Crops, Her Lame: Hired Man and " Her 13 Cats, Alone, but in the midst of friends, sclated but in full view of thous- ends, poverty stricken in the midst - of ‘plenty, with less of this world's Soeds than the average person pos- @casen, yei possessing advantages provided by a beneficent Providence | which many a millionaire cannot buy, the happiest woman in this @ection of the state spent two daya last week with the temperature ‘wavering around the freezing point, Ppicking red raspberries and sending them to'Southington to market. It was & long, tough drive for a Herald reporter’ in an antiquated §as wagon to reach the home of Mra, John R. Hughes, widow of a veteran of the Civil War, Over the ugh and rugged road to Shuttle “Meadow Lake, over the rougher and more rugged lane, which is alleged to be & road, leading down to Sun- set Rock, through dried ruts, bumps and rocks into a cinder driveway Which seemed the end of a hard fought battle, the reporter drove, or tather floundered. The cinder path burst upon the reporter and his companion like a rainbow after an April shower. Leaving the ruts of the road behind, they drove over the winding path, flower bordered, with here and there a fruit tree, finally coming to rest beneath the arbor of a well kept and' well trimmed grape vine. Immediately in front on the lawn was a pife of apples, bushels of them, carefully selected and ready for market, “Take the Easy Chair” A little old woman, greeted = the visitors at the door. She was not more than five feet tall,smaybe not that, 8he radiated, a deep beauty of soul, a -pleasant personality and a hearty welcome. “Come right in, take off your things and stay as long as you like. No, take the easy chair." It was an old fashioned welcome, in an old fashiond home, by one who has been an old fashioned mother, Though her life has been clouded with misfortunes, shc shows no trace of hardships in her smile 4 and her cheerful attitude. In the midst of a 40 acre farm, on a geographica: bluff overlooking the towns of Plainville, Farmington and Forestville, lives this woman, 78 years of age. No human com- panion resides in her home, except a crippled hired man who feebly works for his room and board. She keeps a liorse, a cow, a whole flock of chickens and cats. And there are 13 cats. Asked why she Joes not get rid of them, she saya they were her son’s, from whom she has not heard for about a year, but who lives “somewhere in Hartford,” and she keeps them in memeory of him. ‘The house is one of those homey, not too large farmhouses, which she says was a happy home until death claimed her husband three years ago. “Oh, yes,” she saya, *I am happy. I was happier when 1 had my husband, of course. We were very happy here together.” Too Busy (0 be Lonesome Thea with a pensive sigh she adds “I have no time to be lone- some, I'm too busy.” And when one 1emembers that the care of a farm- house, a 40 acre tarm, an orchard of apple trees, a small vineyard, & po- tato patch, & corn patch, a wood- shed, & flower garden, a cow, a horse, a flock of chickens, 13 cats and a crippled hired man rests on the shoulders of a wee mite of a lit- tle old woman, five feet tall and 78 years old, you can agree with her. Withini less than a week, the last weelk in Octobgr, with “frosts on the pumpkins and fodder in the shock™ Mrs. Hughes has picked and sold from her little farm 23 quarts of red raspberries. Last Wedneaday she picked 12 quarts which a neighbor took to market for her, and the following Saturday the same accom- modating neighbor sgain took 11 quarts to market, Isolated, no neighbors within call- ing distance, only as far away from home as New Britain or Plainville seven times in 13 years, she is not a recluse, “Yes, 1 enjoy company. ¥ fish you would come again, come anytime and often™ she invited, see- ing her departing guests to the door after an hour's visit. Mrs. Hughes has not old fashioned ideas that the world is all wrong because she grew up in a different environment, this old fashioned mother in an old fashioned home. Flappers and other innovations do not worry her. Every generation must live its own life and its own customs and those who are buay with their own affairs have no time to regulate the affairs of others, she belleves, She has ene grievance and ene ambition. The grievance is that the tewn of Southington, in which she lives, makes no real effort to keep the road to Shuttle Meadow from ‘White's croasing in good repair. “They don’t know how to build roads” she says, “If 1 had a gang of men I could build a much better road myself.” This is no idle boast when one contemplates the condition ot her own property alongside the neglected condition of the dangerous highway. Her one ambition is that some day the site where her home stands, and the recky bluffs above it, will be taken by the state of Commecticut for a samitorium. "It is a beautiful place, with a view that sweeps the. whole countryside, plenty of fresh air and sunshine and everything de- sirable for an institution.” she adds. A visitor wonders how she gets along with all her work. “We raised plenty of potatoes and corn when my husband was alive” she mays. “But now I don't raise so much.” 8he admita that she must milk the cow, take care of the hens, har- ness and feed the horse and occa- sionally ask a neigbor to help exer- cfse him, and look after the 13 cats, “I could have picked more than the 23 quarts of raspberries, but 1 didn’t have time" &he explains appologetically. 8he passcs off with & gesture the comment that someone must care for flowers, which are found blooming even as November approaches., “Who picked the apples?” she was asked. 8he grinned, rather self consciously it seemed and answered, “Well the Good Lord sent His wind to pick most of them.” Who picked the balance is left to conjecture. She has her troubles, this little old woman, but she hides them be- hind a smile, She lives alone with the hired ‘man and the live stock, but can see the smoke of the chim. neys of at least three towns; her main income is from a government pension, yet around her lie the fer- tile Southington fields and a few miles away a large commercial orchard; a home site which real es- tate dealers would consider ideal, yet difficult to reach at any time, and impossible through the snow drifts of winter. A picture of rug- gedness, good health and aimple satisfaction she has wealth that cannot be estimated in money. Skin Blemishes Don't think ! opeless! Tho\-ud:kfl ln«:&el':ublmn e cured quick results with Resinol (000000 LETTERS ON - BOARD FRENCH STEAMER Largest ‘Mailing Ever Seat From France Staets to America on Rochambeau. Le Havre, France, Oct. 31 (P — Two milllion letters, the largest mailing ever sent from France, started to America today on the French steamer Rochambeau. 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