LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26,' 1920
. Page Six
LENOI2, N. C.
THE GARDEN LADY'S STORIES
(Written for the United State School Army Garden, Bureau of
Education, Department of the Interior.)
THE LADY IN T HE DARK CLOAK
By Ethel Allen Murphy
(Continued from last week) the Garden a sort of hushed, drawn-
44 Then I grew so sleepy-headed I
thought I was going to fall. And I
in feeling as if the Garden's chil
dren, too, felt what we were waiting
went to sleeD. and . I had a most , for and had drawn in their breath.
beautiful dream. I did fall through xhen a little, sighing breath went
great blackness, past sliding stars. I h h and gaw h
caught at them to stop myself, but '
lightly as a as a butterfly, in an-' kady in the Dark Cloak, trailing her
other Garden, Somewhere else; and 'soft dark, dark robe over the Garden
everything was so alive and beautiful ! toward the Compost Heap.
arSteneLadTk ' cloak, you might say, was
was all in shining, changeable colors,
and she was planting pansies and
singing a queer, beautfiul song that
I can't remember now. The next
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black cloth you ever saw. It was
a deep, deep darkness, like the soft
deep woods or in the deep, deep
night skv. Yet we felt that there
was something hidden under the
e u. ,.,- Klr.,. was somen zu; ii.uueu uuuei wic
morning some of the pan bloom, Jarkn somthing that glowed and
than had been so prettj he da be- b lt WM
frta u'DPu n nr pii Aiti ithv ana J .... ... . .
fore were all curled and gray and
brownish.
" 'She has been here many times
since hen, and every time she comes moon is aoout to rise, only this light
very queer, cnudren. e couun i
say that we saw it. We felt it, as
we teel tna tqueer ngnt wnen me
something else gets shrieveled up and
grayish or brown. And lots of times
the Golden (jirl takes them away ana
had gold and rose color and pearly
tints in it, we were sure. A cool
breath came over us, as again that
.puts them on the Compost Heaps wind aros eout of no where and pass-
tnere Dy tne rocsery. i ieu miiu oi eJ US- Tne old Apple-Tree seemed
sorry ior tnem, you snow ; uui mai t0 bend toward the Dark Cloaked
beautiful dream about the Dark
Cloaked Lady used to come floating
up in my mind at such times, and I
just wondered!' "
"You know, children," said the
Garden Lady, "the Golden Girl
thought a great deal of those Com
'post Heaps. She said she was 'Hoo
verizing food for her plant children,'
just as your mothers do when they
store vegetables for future use. I'll
tell you how she did it. Every gar
dener ought to ."..ive a compost heap.
If you forget wh.it I've told you you
can look back on Page 8 of the Fall
Manual of the United States School
Garden Army.
"First, she pu ta layer of stable
manure that the Soldier Boy had had
carted in from the country for her.
This layer they made about 4 inches
deep. This she followed by a layer
of old, last year's leaves that she had
saved over from the Apple Tree and
from the trees on her square and in
front of her house. She knew she
was gonig to make a garden in the
following spring, you know. On these
she sprinkled a small quantity of
lime. She followed this by a layer of
earth about 2 inches thick. You see,
the leaves and straw help to keep the
plant food in the stable fertilizer
from being washed out and lost.
Twice that season she turned over
the compost with a spading fork to
mix the materials more thoroughly.
Her material so arranged, so placed
it in several neat piles. I forgot to
say that she used, too, the lawn sod
which had covered the garden the
year before, and from time to time
she added to the piles the remains of
plants that were through blooming
or bearing in her flower or vegetable
garden the early peas, for instance.
Sometimes, also, she added leavings
t iinncuil nnrtinnq of VPtrptahleS
from the kitchen. Once or twice,
during very dry spells, she sprinkled
the piles with water.
"Well, to go back to the story:
Whe nthe Scarecrow had finished his
long speech a deep silence fell on
Ladv. There was a stir in the
branches, almost like whispered
words, and several more golden
leaves fluttered down and around her
like tired yellow butterflies. She
came so close to us that we looked
into her eves. I couldn't tell what her
face was like, because what I saw in
her eyes was too wonderful too
wonderful to repeat in words. They
were all full of strange, bright lights,
and they grew deep, deep, and larger
and larger, till I lost myself for a
minute and seemed to be sinking in
some deep sea. Then I was caught
up in th eheart of a bright, bright
star and went sailing away away.
No! I was still in the Garden, for the
Scarecrow was plucking me by the
sleeves. The air was trembling just
like a great haro with wonderful deep
soft music. You know how the tele-J
graph wires can be heard humming,
singing on a windy day out in the
country, if you put your ear to the
pole. Well all the air was trem
bling, singing like that, full of lovely
voices singing in chorus some words
that c;.mo to me afterwards when I
when I came back to my everyday
self. The words don't seem nearly
so wonderful, just as words, when I
saw them now, as they did with that
low, soft music in them. Indeed, I
believe that the music wasn't spoken
in just those words; but that the
words are the best my mind could do
to tell you what the music said."
(To be continued next week)
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Merely as a suggestion for planks
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