European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes August 1977 How Yort Tom Theill Al Tasha Tudor shaving splints from a log says she wishes she had lived in the 19th and she almost by Angola Tayu new York times Tasha Tux i is Foud of saying she Washta she had lived in the i9lh she almost her farmhouse near Marl is set in a Pine Clearing reached by a rutted Road no Ordinary car can the Muse itself has had electricity fur Only two years and there is no running water in the Kitchen it is carried in buckets from the in the Tudor grandchildren go la school on Tudor makes her own butter and so spins dyes it with infusions of tree Flowers or even she weaves cloth on a Large hand loom and has raised her own she raises ducks and chickens and her be loved Welsh except in warm Cook ing in done on an enormous Wood stove called Black Maria by her Holiday turkeys Are roasted in an old portable oven known a tin in front of the in Tosh Tudor paints the illustrations for the childrens books tar which she it she has done 40 we in collaboration with her youngest Erncr Tudor at the Edge of the visitors Are nil first by a Gaggle of waddling honking ferociously because they Are protecting Newborn beyond them is looking like one of her own in a Long Calico her hair half hidden by Scarf arranged like 8 her narrow feet Bare think of the shoe leather you she re behind penned goals and their kids bleat for their chickens cackle and from the House come the Hue and cry of four Welsh Only the miss ignores the strangers end continues entering the unpainted clapboard i guides her visitors through the where pennies Bloom As Large As and delphiniums and roses grow in the profusion of t True country i want you to see my she they Are stoned in the greenhouse and then Hung m baskets guess How old the Home her eyes the Suttor hazards Iso the like pleased the House la a Mere Gar years built entirely by her cons sell and and looks exactly like venerable Tudor relates that a Young electrician wiring the Bouse remarked that u was House he bad Ever sch is now building another House for his Siller Bethany Down the Road he himself lives just beyond the a defense counsel for toe is Home from Germany on leave and has baked his de Licious cookies for Tudor is surrounded by childen and grandchild Only who is does not live on the tudors if Fol but she is not far away and visits in the Winter Kitchen of the with its Well used fireplace and cupboard full of Blue and White Canton Ware through by Clipper from the Orient by her the Painter sits at a Long table covered with a beautifully faded red cloth and weaves a Basket As she in a Unda Allen spins Cna Kint some yarn from the corgis talented Young artist and a Friend of explains she came to help make seme slipcovers a year ago and dirt stayed Ive adopted Tudor says with a l Tash Trudor Speaks in the Brahman accents of where she was born about Yean daughter of Rosamond a portrait and William Starling an aeronautical and naval who designed several of the Ameri Cas cop she was christened Starling Bur her father was so enamoured of Tot heroine Dfwar and he called her Short ened to she later took her mothers Maiden name legally and so have her after she married Thomas from whom she is she in a real uth Century farmhouse in new that House had electricity and certainly no running its remarkable that my children adopted my Way of she her children grew up on the 10 per haps it is no Surprise that who is m and gave up being a school principal for could faithfully reproduce an old i would have loved Ike life i the Ulk Cen Tudor she awl aked friends have formed a called the still a to try relive Tut we Are gnat generators pc live la peaceful in live and let and discipline tar she the House has a formal victorian parlor furnished with Tudor heirloom and Library walled with on a Wall hangs a which Tudor sometimes but when there Are no the family orders the copy Winter i Lobea where they set around and play complicated wort games or there Haw been hard when mrs Tudor raised her our children and schooled them with the Money she earned from her but in she i guarantee you 1 can find a four Leaf Clover in five ate came Back in four min with four of them plus a a five leaved Clove there u even a seven leaved one in a Frame inner at wits end 1 have written two play a ukulele and can drive a cur without looking at my but do you know what singular thing impresses women when i am in a group the fact thai i have survived a in All 1 must admit i am not the Only woman in North America to endure the terrible but i am pos Sibly one of the few who can talk about it without Knotting my one of the reasons i think t was so successful is that 1 adjusted earlier than most my kids were born being two years they seemed to hive a full set of Teeth for an emergency Supply of saliva for Spil Ling and Little tags tha ran the mile Inder three one i us if my i cannot an like 1 an he youre a Little when you fall asleep on an obscene phone i youre do you mean to Tell me a Bald baby a Yard High with a smile that could defrost mount Everest is getting you Down dont i Between and be put us cat la lie got his Arm caught in nut Oil training la the ate a pulled Ever the flew Sal on my put Bis dues in the dropped a the visit Kwh Down the Regis Tare up my card jury duly Nad talked is min utes without operator assistance a housewife la new have you tried naps asked my Ive out be keeps Rawung in my Playpen and r Ray husband remembered in old Burl Lancaster movie in which be was a prisoner of in order to maintain Kun be disciplined his mind to Coocen Trale on things other than the pain he was the nest time my two Vearold oiled his tricycle with my is 50 Jar of Cream that was to brine everlasting youth to my i smiled and recited the declaration of inde when i looked tip from Bridge one night and saw him sitting on the Steps with nothing on except a is rpm phonograph record Slung Over one i recited the alphabet come to think of i was the Only woman on our Block who could recite All the vice presidents from John Adams to Alben
