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BADIN BULLETIN
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BADIN BULLETIN
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Managing Editor F. A. Cummings
Vol. 1 June, 1919 No. 9
A City Beautiful
The Finishing Touch
In these days of efficiency, shorter
workhours, and longer time for recrea
tion, there has been instituted in many
large companies the system of character
reading by Katheryn Blackford. This
system enables the employment depart
ment to place a man in a position for
which he is most fitted by temperament,
training, and desire. The system is
based upon physical characteristics,
combined with the employee’s experience.
There is another form of character
reading which fixes the status of a man
and his family in the community. Stroll
with me down a residence street, and I
am not surprised that you exclaim as we
pass the little cottage two doors from
the end of the block. The building dif
fers not a particle from its neighbor,
except in color, yet it is only by an ef
fort that you realize this fact. What
then is it that holds your attention?
Beyond the stretch of green that runs
out like a velvet carpet to meet the street
sits the little cottage in the cool, restful
shade. In the pretty porch box, painted
to match the house-trim, the nasturtiums
are already in blossom, while over the
edge falls long loose sprays of wander
ing jew. Below, the shrubs and cannas
hide the foundation in a solid mass of
green, brightened by a row of pink
petunias and dark red and white sweet
william. At the edge of the lawn, sepa
rating this yard from its neighbor, is
a row of cosmos, which forms a light
green border for the lawn, and in the
fall will be a mass of rioting colors.
As we pass on, the next house attracts
our attention, but in a different way.
Across a stretch of weeds, interspersed
with rocks and bare ground, the dull
gloomy house with its exposed unsightly
brick foundation stands out like a blot
on the landscape.
Do you not agree that the character
of the occupants of each of those houses
is shown by their yards? And do you
not further agree that the character of
a town is shown by the collection of
yards which form it? Besides showing
the pride of the occupants in their sur
roundings, it proves their industrious
ness and stick-to-itiveness. They find
life worth living, and aid them.selves as
well as others in getting joy out of life.
They help to make the “City Beautiful.”
In building a home, altho the architect
may be the best, altho the workmen may
be careful, yet there i.s still something
left for the occupant to do.
The "finishing touch” must be applied
to bring out the full homelike charm of
any dwelling, and this is done by plant
ing flowering plants. The porch box
and windows full of brightly colored
bloom, and the massing of small shrubs
along the foundation wall, with perhaps
a vine twining its way up a trellis, all
help to turn a house into a real home.
The Vegetable Garden
I have been requested to outline in the
Bulletin a list of vegetable seeds and
plants that may be sown or planted in
June, that will somewhat guide Badinites
in caring for their gardens.
Sugar corn and string beans, in small
quantities, should be planted every two
weeks, thus giving a continuously fresh
supply for the table of these staple
vegetables. Country Gentleman and
Stowell’s Evergreen are two good vari
eties of sugar corn for table use. Lima
beans, either bush or pole, may be
planted in the early part of June, »
second sowing of beets, and cucumbers,
okra, and squash can still be sown early
in the month. The early part of
month is also a good time to sow n* j
beans, Davis’ kidney wax beans,
black-eyed white field peas, to be
ered when ripe for winter use. .
potato plants can also be planted, *0
make a profitable crop. Eggpl**'*
do well planted the first of the j. i
and pepper, if not already in the
Horseradish, planted in the row ‘
cabbage, will make strong roots by ,
Sow cabbage seed for late planting;
Scotch kale for greens. This |
kale is grown from transplanted P
—the same distance as you would s* ‘
cabbage—and is very hardy. **’ i
proved by frost. Carrot*. parsniP^’^jj
oyster plant do well Mwn the ,
of this month, as they make '
growth in the fall months, •'V i
much better during the winter.
should be sprayed at
interval* j
Bordeaux mixture, or some other
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