Mrs Appleyard's Year Author:Louise Andrews Kent Mrs. Appleyard is about as tall as the Venus de Milo and weighs a little more. That is, of course, if the Venus were not made of whatever she is usually made of. In Mrs. Appleyard's youth it used to be plaster of Paris and the Venus lurked in dark corners of parlors on Overbrook Hill, looking strangely white against dark green cartridge paper. A... more »sk for more...« less