Page Fourteen
if S0 THE WOMEN’S PAGE a* J*
The Home Beautiful
From the earliest crocus to the last
chrysanthemum, flowers are a never-end
ing source of pleasure. Then let us plant
early, and often.
Among the earliest bloomers are the
yellow jonquil, hyacinth, and tulip, not
forgetting the humble dandelion. Those
which Mother Nature planted, and which
bloom again each year are violets,
hepatica, trailing arbutus. Spring beauty,
Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robins (tril-
liams), and Solomon’s seal.
When these have gone, we should have
poppies, pansies, zinnias, candytuft, and
many others; seeds for which may be
had from Mr. Cowart, in the Renting De
partment. Let us get some seeds, plant
some seeds, and have some flowers this
summer.
In making a garden bed, put the tall
flowers in the middle, and grade them
down in size until you come to the border
where sweet alyssum makes a fine show
ing, being a low plant, with a fine white
blossom.
Then, when these are well on the way,
plant a row of scarlet sage. Next a
row of white snapdragon, and then a row
of blue fall roses, and see if you don’t
have as gay a strip of national color
as any patriot should want; and it
makes a splendid ribbon to hold yours
and your neighbor’s yard together. If
you have vines, train them up in the
way they should go; and as for the can-
nas, like the poor, we have them with
us always, and everywhere, and they
make a very effective background for
shorter flowers.
Remember to plant all these, forget
not to weed; and above all, leave not
the watering to George, for he won’t
do it, and your work will be for naught.
Let us see if Badin cannot be called the
Garden Spot of Stanly County, if not of
the State.
I. K. C.
Plans for Plants
{By Blanche Elizabeth IVade)
I tried to have a garden once. A gar
dener I hired;
And here are but a few of all the things
that there transpired;
He did not weed the chickweed out, but
built it coops instead;
The coops were just the things for cocks
comb, too, this strange man said.
For pigweed then, he built a pen—a hive
for bee-balm made;
A kennel for the dogwood, for he said
he knew it paid.
He hung the burdock in a cage quite high
upon the wall;
And there he put the larkspur, too, since
there was room for all.
Some peanuts for the monkey flower he
bought the day it bloomed,
And curry-combed horse chestnuts, for he
liked them all well-groomed.
He yoked the ox-eyed daises—scolded
hard a balky-aster;
And bought a cage with wheel to make
the squirrel-corn grow faster.
I saw him catching flies, to feed the
spider-wort, one day.
He set some traps for crafty foxes, so
I heard him say.
Upon a shadbush just outside my old
stone garden wall,
I saw this sign: "BewareI" it said; “No
Fishing'Heri at All!”
And a dandelion trainer then, he wanted
me to get;
But that I could not do; and so, he said,
“I much regret
That I shall have to go away. I’m so mis
understood.
There’s nothing after all like taming wild
flowers in the wood.”
Before he left, he drove my cowslips
home with helpful hints.
My garden thrives—and that’s becau.se
I’ve never seen him since!
The Reason Suffrage Suffers
Once upon a time, there was a woman,
who reasoned not deeply, nor thought
wisely.
It so happened, one day, that she at
tempted to put her house in order.
She swept, but the broom she wielded
had long since lost its cunning, and was
fit only to be cast out into the trash
heap.
She dusted, but the dustcloth had not
seen the inside of a laundry for lo these
many weeks.
She oiled the floor, but the mop had
not been shaken out before being put
away after its Inst bout with the imiU-
tion hardwood.
She cleaned windows, but used soa]
and left them streaked.
She polished brasses, but used a poc
grade of the stuff that guarantees 
reflect your image after a due amour
of conscientious effort has been expen
ed.
And so on thru the multitudinous di
tails that go to make up the sum toti
of a woman’s working day, if so be si
is of that variety known as the Horn
Maker.
Now I bethought me, how like she w*
to that courageous band who are tryin
to wrest civil liberty, for women, fro*
the tightfisted lawmakers of our coU>
try—in that they are enlisted in a ver
good cause, but in their methods, such *
hooting and jeering senators, bumifi
public speeches, destroying propcr^^
burning the President in effigy,
many others too numerous to menti®-'
they have been using poor and outw’O*^
tools, and will not achieve the succ«*
which I firmly believe will ultima^*^
crown their efforts.
—I. K. C-
Pumpkin Custard
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Two cups pumpkin; add a
salt, 1 >4 cups of sugar, % cup of
milk, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, M
cloves, 2 tablespoons molasses, 2
spoons butter, H teaspoon soda> ^
three or four eggs—yokes onl>'^
whites for the meringue.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Burris had
charming guests Sunday the Miss^ *
gie and Bulah Tinker, of Salisbury’
Mr. and Mrs. Mabry, of Albemar**' ^
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Farre*. of
N. C., were in town recentlXf ' v d*
Mrs. Farris’ mother, Mrs. Brookb***
Falls Road.
James Vann has returned
after several months in servic* o'f
We are glad to have him back ^
Miss Beatrice Bowlini;, of
has been visiting her sister, Mr**
Bowling, has returned home.
Talbot; Which is cheap**^’
married or paying income ^
McConnell: Hell, man; P*^