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Tale of a Spaniel And a Holiday House of Candy

It's been a tradition in Mrs. Frank Evans' family for as long as she can remember.
All the women on her side of the family have made candy houses at Christmas time, and Mrs. Evans, who lives in Irondequoit, has been doing it herself for the past eight or nine years. She is even had her picture in the paper a few time with her houses.

But the tradition may come to an end this year because of a new member of the Evans family named Abby. Abby is a one-year-old Brittany spaniel-a hunting dog that Mrs. Evans says is her husband's first love, "including and excluding me."

They both like Abby so much that they even threw a birthday party for her back in October.

But yesterday Abby ate part of Mrs. Evans' candy house. "It amazed me that she didn't get sick on the chocolate and gum drops she ate. She even ate the aluminum-covered chocolate soldiers."

And Mrs. Evans says she doesn't expect Abby to lose her taste for sweets between now and next Christmas.

REMEMBER BLANCHE STUART SCOTT, THE Rochester woman who was the first female aviator? (To refresh your memory, see UPSTATE, Dec. 14, "The Tomboy of the Air Lives in Rochester").

Well, Blanche is not resting too well this Christmas. She broke her hip last Friday when she fell on one of her three 200-year old Oriental rugs. "I have 41 mended bones," says Blanche from her Genesee Hospital bed, "so this certainty isn't another of my famous firsts." She won't be home for Christmas.

Blanche's main concern at this point is writing a book on her years as a record breaker and first woman to accomplish many feats. "It's not really on breaking records," she says, "but rather on all the nutty things I did."

If you haven't received Christmas cards yet from some of the people you sent them too, it may be because they've placed a personal in the want ad section of the newspaper expressing their holiday sentiments.

"I had told some friends that cards are expensive and time is short," says Mrs. John Wasala, whose greeting appears in the personals. "But somebody placed it for me, and called to say that placing the ad was their Christmas present to me. I don't know who did it, and the whole thing is a mystery.

She has one hint, though. The ad underneath theirs is from Veronica and Jack Kelly. They're friends of the Wasala's - and they knew Mrs. Wasala wasn't planning to send cards.

But the Kellys have gone to Florida for the holidays, so nobody will know for sure till they get back after the first of the year whether they placed the ad or not.

MR. AND MRS. ROBERT PURDY placed theirs in the personals on purpose and for a purpose.

"We've always sent cards, but we finally came to the conclusion that people open them and read them and think it's nice they got a card from us, but really don't care," says Mrs. Purdy. "So much money is put into cards and it doesn't mean anything. So we're going to give to some fund or charity instead. The money we give would do much more than the cards."

They haven't decided where they'll give the donation, but Mrs. Purdy is learning towards the North Greece volunteer ambulance fund.

[[image]] Blanche S. Scott
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