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MAKING DIXIE l.AND OK BEAUTY
Ma kint> ? Hill Country Farm Into a
Bit of Eden
Mr* I indsay Patterson in Progressive
Fanner.
In this letter 1 arti going to write
not about "Southern little gardens"
but about a southern 'mr garden?fifty
aero- big, fifty aeres of blooming
flowers and shurixs and trees with an
adorable little creek run: ig through
and dropping from stone to .-tone, so
that at night, when ot.h-.-v -ounds stop
the little creek sings <?:. and on until
you begin to sing with as every
>et*s Me person should -io who is fortunate
enough to have a bit of land
to plant things in and a creek so
there . ill be plenty of water.
It is just as well to explain right,
now that those thousands of bloomng
things exist mostl; >:i my imagination.
hut that is the place for things
to begin 1 wouldn't change places
with all the kings if 1 had to give up
the beautiful time I am going to have
the next two or three years turning
sage fields and barren hills into
one of the beauty soots of the
county, and i shall dot t at comparatively
&mall expense, for it will
he my summer home up in the Tennessee
mountains.
Isn't it stxango how - hildish loves
cling? That is part of my mother'*
plantation an d I used to wade in the
creek and hunt hickory nuts on this
hill and 1 always loved th>* place. So
Te?u can see how much heart I am put
ttng into it. and after all that i> the
only way to make a beautiful home. I
dan't mean a handsome homo. I mean
a beautiful one- -one "hat you love
and are happy in .
To begin at the beginning 1 built
the house just as far from the road as
was possible to get With, all the
oise and dust of cars getting worse
all the time. I have no intention of
spending the rest of my days doing
any more cleaning than is absolutely
necessary, nor having my nice draperies
and curtains and bric-a-brac grimed
with dust. The little creek has fail
enough to use a ram for water so that
big problem of countrv lit- is out of
the way. not to mention a swimming
pool from the same source which ha
oern f>r-onnseu voU!-.?_r'-: nH'mtX1!.of
the family. I don't know if the
trees, oil the place were cut down in
the old days or f they never ?rew
there, hut outside <?f a few hickories
the growth seems to ran entirely tc
cedar thousands of hem mostly
quite small. So ! am using: th?nn for
my background to give all the green
I want, or rather all the evergreen
Scattered all over the hill which ha
about, twenty acres, 1 have just been
transpiring dogwoods and Judas
irees and white thorn. Of course for
a few years even the birds will scorn
them, hut every year they will gain
added loveliness and I shall so-a -it
a my hilltop and gaze down cn the
pink and while and green and rejoice
ove* it
1 love sweet smilin g things, so under
my bedroom window are masses
of while and purple lilac and tree arbutus
or first breath-of-spring (it has
both names and is so very fragrant
it deserves a dozen, then mock orange
sweet shrub and hulbs for early
spring. Then Cor later in the year are
mignonette, clove pinks, ami ;h >se
blessed old standby* that are not appreciated
as they deser . .r
o'clock*, or marvels of Peru. Do plant
them near your porch where everyone
can eniov them in the
the day's work is over. They bloom
and bloom and bloom, the colors are
gorgeous and they come up year alter
year requiring no mor ecar than
an old poikweed. After 1 get a tittle
bit further along I am going to set
out a lot.g row of the four o'clocks
around the porch walk, so in the late
afternoon I can swing in n hammock
and think pleasant thoughts and purr
over that row of flaming color.
Dwarf evergreen- are banked
against the house, which is the old
timey white with ;?.-irhc> of green and
where the hot afternoon sun beats
down 1 am using a ior of mimosas.
They grow so quickly that they will
soon give a dense shade and fill the
house and grounds with their perfume
during the long blossoming period
when their masses of pink blossoms
will look like giant bouquets. Then as
they are not long lived, maples and
oaks will be set out to take the place
later of the mimosas, but the beautiful
mimosas will last my day.
I am trying to do two things at
once?set out plants that will make
the hill beautiful to look at, so that
everybody who passes will enjoy it,
and also to make it beautiful to look
down upon, so 1 will enjoy it. It's a
rery steep hill, so most of it will be
a sort of "sunken garden" effect from
the house. There is s;n mnrh ef i? th-.t
it is necessary to use great masses of
stuff to get any effect at all and for
that reason trees and shrubs must be
largely depended on though the flower
garden can have its place. If it
can be managed. I want to carry out
a garden idea I saw at Blenheim when
traveling in England. The Duchess of
Marlboro loved roses and had a wonderful
rose garden but instead of a
fence around it. there were arch? s of
heavy wire covered with climbing ios
i os, white and yellow and red and pin
| it isn't necessary to spend a lot o
! money as she did. The color etTect i
, all one wants, and any cheap suppoi
covered with climbing r-v ? s woul
| give it.
Thousands of bulbs arid iris hav
been planted over the hiil and \vi
among the rocks yucca and hard
p ir.ls will be left to work oat thei
o\* n salvation. I said 1 was going t
t out a lot if purple ironweed an
go.'denrod and Jo Pye for autumn di
I'.trarifth Kut is- ? ? * '
a 1UUIM ;i"OUl tw
.. i of them choking oat every thin
>o 1 take that back. The creel
which is the joy of my heart - boi
liered with wild mint, and t rget-m<
\ rots and buttercups and a lot ?>f lat
j summer blooming things that 1 don
know. 1 shall add quantities ?>f iri
1 and an occasional weeping wilhw an
j a rustic bridge for the driveway, coi
j ering that with white wild clemati
and red trumpet vine. They bloom *
the same time, are lovely togethei
and the clematis is very fragrant, pai
tieularly at night Forget-me-nol
grow wild, so 1 can't decide whethc
i to border the walks with them c
violets The violets would he i th
soil better but that long row of blu
\ with an outside border of fragrar
sweet alyssum would be -veb
\ wouldn't it?
1 TU- * " * -- -
i iiv zinnias ana marigolds will h
' mckod into all the odd corners so s
" provide for late summer house d<
! corations, for 1 know of no more fait
?;1 standhys. A lot of 1 ?la< k w. inul
and persimmons have been set ou
*nd if it is humanly possible to fin
them these times, there will be hal
a dozen old fashioned Indian peachi
which were the delight of my youtl
I but which now seem to have vanisl
ed from the world. A collection c
grapes and small fruits will tak
i up part of the hillside, for I war
Ithe place useful as well as omamei
tal, and a country home without
succession of fruits and nuts jus
no home at all.
I shall he too busy this spring hi
in the autumn I want to go about 1
miles to the mountains arid get a ca
load of rhododendron, numb hai
fern, and the real wild things th;
grow only in such places. I belie\
they would flourish on the norther
side of the hill where there are ?
maiiy rocks. At ail events, they wi
he given a chance to flourish there.
1 want the drive from trie mai
road particularly love;y. but 1 havti
no iked that out yet. It I ? <?uld g?
enough dogwood and mimosa*. 1 woul
like to border it with them but ha
j a mile is a good long distance f<
I that, so I may just use cedars an
| pink and white altheas. There ai
t hundreds of altheas where there ai
anv old uank'ii'i -w
I to germinate, and even if they ai
?jmte small when set out. years ha\
a fashion of passing rapidly and eve
if I pass with them beauty reman
and I know of no more worth whi
j thing to do with one's life than t
take one's ow n bit of mother eart
and fill it with beauty and growth. 1
the Lord Clod planted a garden ca
we do better than plant one too?
WHERE THE HURRICANE'S BOR]
Natives of Virgin Islands Sing low o
The Tropical Storms that Come i
August and September Such 2
Caused Flood Here in July 1916.
| Charlotte Observer, :11st.
One subject the people of the troy
! u-s sing low on is that concerning hui
ricanes 'Storms" thev call these ?ib
I turhances which arc interesting; t
i the people of the Gulf and Atlanti
j coast states because they sweep ii
! 'and just about the time the cottc
crop is ripe for the pickers and uj:
| set calculations in the crop n port
j ing bureau at Washington. It mils
I be understood that since the Unite
States became possessionally intere^
| ted in the West Indian islands, th
t people there have caught the Yanke
spirit and are boosters from the wor
I go. When they heard ??f the comin:
| of the American editors their Cham
! ber of Commerce?for they have es
; tablished that system of the Amer
an boosting agency 'n nearly a
the towns?made "entertainment" ai
: rangements and took the party a
'about, same as if they were a gan
: of real estate prospectors. They tal
about crops and soils, climate an
health, and they will tell how th
! trade winds operate to nullify th
torrid temperatures and make of th
j tropics a perpetual Blowing Roc!
| And for a fact, the climate is a
right. It is a great place to sit in th
:-hade and imbibe bay rum juleps. Bi
HNEUMONIA
r Always call a physiciar
Until his arrival us
"emergency" treatmer
with Vicks. This does no
interfere with anythin
he may prescribe.
WICKS
W VapoRue
Oitr 17 Million Jars Used Yearly
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT'
|
j. | they are shy on the subject of the j
fi hurricane. People in this part of the!
country ar?* familiar with the sight of j
j bent over corn stalks after a summer j
d| storm, but down in the West Indies!
, when the visitor begins inquiring as
I to why the cocoanut and palm trees
,j ..re always bent over at various ancles.
instead of growing straight up
. stately trees should grow, the na
0 tive wit. divert attention to some otnj
i-i subject in the landscape. They have
no literature on i-torms. If the vis0
I iter persists on information of some
i of some of the big blows of the past
c j ol the big blow*. of the past, he wil!
r'I he referred to DeKoye's history of the
\ irgin Islands??but nobody can tell
I where the history is to be obtained,
i Certainly, none of the natives have it
js at hand. 1'hey will admit, however,
^ tnat history records somewhat of a
. hurricane away back in IStiT and a
1 moderate zephyr along in I Hit* and
then they will swear that within a
r period of 31)7 years the Virgins have
r known only 1-10 hurricanes, or severe
ts Ba,es>r
i he very first thing one sees as the
ir ship sails into he harbor of Santo
t> Domingo is a rusted steel ship lying
t, broadside the storm washed shore
line. It is what remains of the United
Stat*-.- armored cruiser the Memphis
which was torn from her anchorage in
ie that harbor 12 years ago and which
is came within a few feet of being land,
ed right down into the towi .ouure.
^ The people of Santo Domingo would
u i ?u .. i ; '
u??vt i ruiuv i'i *.??? it'll i.ur (
t ago, but the sands have packed tight
(j around the old hulk and she is there
U to stay. Hut they have inviting opportunities
for diverting attention
^ from this reminder of the hurricane.
1 Just around the point is the original
city, a wail and gate and fort, built in
c the days of Columbus, when building
material of the honest sort was used
^ because wall and gateway and fort
mi are intact to this day. even the or^
namental carving in the stone showing
no erosiqn through all its years
Jt of exposure to wind and weather.
0 Thirty-three American lives were lost
r when the Memphr- was blown ashore,
>ix men were cooked to death by explosions
in the boiler room and 27
re were washed away. Usually when any
n vessel is stranded on the Virgin Is;o
land shores, some native family projj
jects a gangway of a sort from the
shore line to the deck and moves in
l;, with hi> family to take up residence.
It makes a comfortable house costs
nothing and is not subject to the
i,j ster proceeding. The stranded Memlf
phis however, developed several ob)r
jeet.enable conditions, chief of which
ltj was that they could not drive nails
ill ii* r ?aii^ auu nicit' iuuiu ur no
place for hanging so much as a dishls
r*S
ilowovei* the Virgin Island people
c may insist that there has not been a
,n biew of any consequence since the
ls hurricane they heard came along in
I,. 1 m>7. they will at times incautiously i
0 point to a pile of crumbled stone that
. epresenls the work of a passing hur[f
ricane, which however, was merely
n local. They stand by the local historian
who has coached them in the idea
that 'a blizzard or a tornado that can
N sweep away half a city in the United
States in a few minutes, is a more
n formidable visitant than the friendly
n West Indian hurricane. The American!
iS cyclone, they insist, "can heat the!
West Indies hurricane all hollow.*'1
Aim they make further claim that .
with modern scientific appliances thej
>- coming of a hurricane can be foretold j
and the people given ample .earning.!
- The barometer is as common in Virgin!
oj Island homes almost as the thermom-!
r | er is on American porches, but the
1 people do not hothei much about
watching its movements until the
, coming of August, for it is then that;
the storm period opens Nearly all1
t the hurricanes of consequence have,
'i originated during that month. The'
hurricane season extends from \ue
gust to October with occasional fole.
iow-up blows in November. They nave
il | birth somewhere in the Windward
s | Passage, the Trade Wind entering in
to the composition.
WRIGLEYS
k After Every Meal
d It's the longest-lasting !
ie confection you can buy
?and IPs a help to dlke
gestion and a cleanser
,|! Aw? for tbe mouth
ie and teeth.
it Wrlflley*? nun
_ tdKiOuweliu I
-EVERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
The native historians insist that the ! T
\V> Indies hurricane moves more \ 01
slowly than the American cyclone or I Si
tornado, and perhaps they are right in j gi
that contention, but the hurricane isjai
\as:iy more far reaching. The West r<
In.ties people for example know no- p;
about a Kansas tornado or a 01
M tana cyclone until they read of 1
it i:i the papers but Texas and Louis- je
lana, and all the states boredritig the el
\ antic to the northern line of North
C arolina, know when there has been hi
a hurricane in the West Indies. These hi
storms have a regular track to move c;
. From the Windward Islands they w
-tart out westerly, sweeping a little to < ;
th? Northwest, and tlu-n they begin o!
their course in curvatures, swirling ?<
along in the direction of thi Gulf of A
M* xico. then rolling northward up the f<
A*, anti? coast, invariably sending
tracer bullets up the Mississippi al- hi
ley way. ai
The Virgin Islands never admit the L1
nter** of the hurricane. For the
day. their skies may be filled with up- tl
rooted trees, flying fragments of m
h > ses, mixed in with bed clothes and
-ehr.ld furnishings, children, pigs'f^
and chickens in indiscriminate man-J
n?r. but it was just the edge of the!
storm. They had not gotten its full | 5,
force. t<
"The Nation indeed has no busi- 11
I !u >s hetping st itt"< i i ild roacn : r~. : 1 r<
building is for the state and coun- f<
ty" n
The sentence is quoted from a Is
I contemporary. We should perhaps,
I hi journalistically polite, and say "es- n
teemed contemporary," only we can- ti
n?.t esteetr. any paper which state as c
I an axiom a concept not proved or of
| common knowledge." P
Why has the Nation "no business
helping States?" Why is road building
for the state and county? Who o
ordained that the national govern- a
| ment. which is all of us, should not f?
I help several groups of us. which are A
the states, to solve their problems? ti
Who made the law that the Nation v
shouldn't build its own roads'. T
There is much question in many
mind: as to the advisability of Fed- 1c
eral ai dfor road building; whether
the policy of the* nation aiding the c,
. . , .. I 1.1 J- -- :u > - i
m 11iiiMi iuuus \> ?11 vvurK. in ii
:i long run. to any better advantage It
than that of the roads aiding the
counties to build roads, is yet to be n
demonstrated. But we can see no a
reason for saying the nation has no \v
business to do so if it is its best
judgment that it should. s<
As for road building being properly
a <tate or county function the gov- fi
ernment has already made rail and ti
water transportation a matter of national
concern. The nation, not the B
states, subsidized the first transcontinental
railroads, to get them built.
. An Ejkcj
Ir requires note
ciate the outstni
I Not only is it i;
market, but it is
to keep in condi
after years of se
All Ford
may be pu
SEE THE NE/
i W
1, CARSt
FNS4C
TftfVPI 'Wim '&AMWMWB
he nation, not the states, improves. f.
*r waterway^. The Nation, not the i c,
tatcs. built the Panama Canal. Thej f
rea? beauty spots of the continent b
re national not state parks. Rail ;|I
>ads, waterways, Panama Canal, ; b
irks, are for the nation, built by | ^
p with the assistance of the Nation,
ransportat?i?n and some of its oh-1 ,,
actives art national concerns. Why ,j
liminate roads from the list? v
That this Nation will eventually vv
uild a national system of national!
ighway.s is as inevitable as was the
inai. It is merely a question of ti
hen and how?-with "where** more rj
isily determined than either of th? ! tl
.hers. But the "when" is not so hard t<
? answer; the United States of n
meriea will build, own control and .
>rever maintain its basic trunk line
/stem of national highways, htus. t,
ringing good roads everywhere when p
nd not until when the people of the ^
nited States demand it. s,
And if there is any truth in signs,
lat demand is now being made and j js
tore and more strongly every year. p
#
; ?
IOTOK CAR INCREASES
CLOTHING SALES l;
The wail of the tailors that nobody t.
ought clothes any more since they <.
)ok to motoring, for which any old s
lit was good enough has been cho- s
ed to i splutter by a bulletin from
ic International Association of Garlent
Manufacturers. I
This organization finds that the
lotor car increases the sale of sport
lothes. : :e to the increased use of
juntry < . jbs, which comes from the *'
lotor; reports an incraesed use of 1
amping clothes, due t<^the enormous 1
umber of "tin can tourists" and a a
.allv mnr..ac.wl tl 1
-?v .... - -?- ? v. uoc "i iiur };uiiut'lli:<
:>r soci?il purposes, which before the c
lotor, could not he indulged in for *
ick of time.
There is no industry, no occupation
o man, woman or child in the coun- ^
ry, not affected favorably by the in- '
leased mileage of good roads.
* *
ATHWAYS TO HIGHWAY
SAFELY OUTLINED *
George M. Graham, vice president *'
f the Chandler Motor Car Co. in an 11
ddress before the tenth annual con- 1
rence of highway engineers at Ann 11
rbor University, said that there were
ve things to be done to make highlys
safe for present day traffic,
hese are: ^
. Take away the cars of the eare?ss
drivers.
Punish the reckless and mtoxif 1
. ..a ? ;> ?i i'
,.w? .. V.,n iai"ir. 14 (HI I UU-J rL'lUBTllZl' | ^
ie rights of the great majority of
r.v-abiding and careful motorists.
3 Investigate accident causes which 4i
ewspape rs throughout the country
re no w helping to do, to point the ?
av for proper remedies.
4. Give safety education in the
hools.
5. Make thorough analysis of traf- J
c movement, regulations and facilies
are needed in each city.
9 * m
eautiful Roads Impossible With
Present Advertising Methods
No matter how good the road sur- (
1 \/ / .Starrer and DenmurxtmbU \ ^v/jW
Rim? SS5 csire
"1
eptioisal V
chmeal knowledge ol automobiles i
tiding value of the Ford Touring C
he lowest priced five-passenger ca
i also a car that costs little to opert
tion and has an unusually high re?
rvice.
Cars are old on convenient deferred term*, or
irchaaed under the Ford Weekly Fur chase Plan.
4{&tor*ii3{mi/icw
('vi DoCroit, Michigan
kREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALH
TRUCKS -TRACTO
1
APRIL. 10. 1924..
ice. the scenery cannot be considex
ii enjoyable if interrupted and con |
used in the eye of the beholder
y a succession of vividly painted
dvertisiug signs. The movement to
eautify highways by elimination of
ign advertising gathers force but
leets strenuous resistance from the
ne who contend that a man has a
ight to rent the !and he owns lor the
rcction of a sign, the rent of which
ill pay his taxes.
Regulation, rather than elimination
= the compromise favored by adverting
companies which secure sigtiig.its
to roadside property and resell
ne space to advertisers. They con?.d
that the signs cannot be elimi
ated legally but can be regulated
to ,-ize, color distance and beauty.
In this connection it is interesting
o observe that Kansas City, Mo. i(?
reparing for the convention of a
undred thousand Shriners next June
tarted an antisign movement spon
ored by the Merchants' Association,
learly all of its members signed the
etition. Many other business men
nlisted, and some of the largest and
>st offensive signs have already been
nken down voluntarily. The proposd
ordinance may include street
locks, barber poles, news and shoe
hine stands and other side walk obt
ructions.
s a Bobber Barber? Court Hold*
In Negative
.Seattle, Wash. April 7th.?Wheth~
? a bobber is a barber a question
hat has disturbed the state of Washngton
since the legislature a year
go enacted that barbers must have
icenses evoked the classics when *
ase reached Judge J. T. Ronald, ir
Superior court here on appeal from
he justice court.
"Beauty parlors, like baseball have
lecome a national amusement," th-e
udge remarked in deciding that hob.
iors needn't be licensed barbers.
The lawyers having dealt with th^
ase of Samson and Delilah, the judge
wrought out some lines from "Milton
ind other poets." Lamenting the
nodern spirit of woman which has
ohbcd her of her chief charm, tc
nake wigs and toupees for men" the
ourt yet admonished her:
Then cease bright nymph to mour<?
thy ravished hair,
Yhich adds new glory to the shining
sphere."
Perhaps mused the judicial mind
L made itself up, Anna Larson whosrf
ocks, William Hoffman, unlicensed
fobbed in a beauty parlor, had "long
nose hair dune: deftly around her
lead," or perhaps,
' 'Twas a beautiful mist failing: doww
to her wrist,
Twas a thing: to be braided and jeweled
and kissed."
Alter all, the court concluded beauv
parlor workers oughtn't to^have utaarn
the jokes to pass examinations
s barbers.
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