Poet, author, farmer U. S. Senator from Minnesota and

Poet, author, farmer U. S. Senator from Minnesota and candidate for the presidency, Eugene McCarthy now lives m the F. T. Valley near Slate Mills. when prudish parents hesitated and the birds and bees were not understood. When the unde prevailed, unrestrained youths were few. The term “Dutch Unde,” a stem advisor, roughly comparable to the “Irish Aunt,” has made its way into the language. But this conception of the unde’s role is at best a limited and inadequate one. Uncles should be stem about onefourth of the time and understanding and encouraging the ether threefourths of the time. According to Patrick O’Connor. • All children should be Japanese. • All women (mothers and wives) italian. • All grandparents, Jewish. • All men (husbands and fathers) Montenegrin. • All aunts, single. • And all uncles, Irish. The essence of undehood has been best expressed by Margaret Atwood in a poem, called “Game After Supper.” “I am hiding in the long grass with my two...cousins. We hear crickets and our own hearts, close to our ears: though we giggle, we are afraid. From the shadows around the comer of the house a tall man is coming to find us. He will be an unde if we are lucky.” All of which adds up to a good case for a “National Uncles’ Day.”