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I JR 3 r JOHN BLAKE C 1- b . udlcu-WNU strvle is S !rh - v f With a Hand Book on the Bearing of Vegetables, for Reference Purposes, I Prepared the Ground, and Planted Probably a Half a Million Seeds, v Bugs ' By James J. Montague I. AM told that some scientists believe that long after man baa perished from the earth the in sect world will continue to prosper and Increase. It really was not nec essary for sclentlsuor any one else to tell me that I have been con vinced of It ever since I began to live In a small town and undertook to raise a small garden. At the beginning It was partly a vegetable garden. I bad beard that no vegetables are really good un less fresh from the soil, and that these are little more than second rate unless raised by one's self. So I bonght seeds and fertilizers and curious tools and fell to work. With a hand book on the rearing of vegetables, for reference purposes, I prepared the ground,' enriched the sol with expensive chemicals the book Instructed me to buy, and planted probably a half a million seeds. Then pretty well spent by my exertions, I waited for the fruit of my labors to become ripe for the ; harvest It was then I discovered that the adage to the effect that everything comes to blm who waits was In vented by some malevolent rascal who bad a grudge against his fel low men, and well . understood how to satisfy It I waited. But the -, bogs didn't First came the cut worms, which like burglars never go out on their Jobs till after night- fall. Then they gather together In schools, and creep over the surface of the ground In parallel columns. ' Each cut worm, when be arrives at the rising stem of a newly planted vegetable, baits, gnaws a bole half ' way through It and then moves on to the neit one. He could of course est all the way through the stem, but it gets s little woody In the ' middle, and he la careful of bis teeth. Eating half a stem Is easier, ' and It kills the plant Just as deed, i which lstter, of course, Is one of his purposes. After the cut worms have been destroyed by pursuing , each one down to his hole, prying open his Jaws and filling them with arsenate : of lead, the aphlds gather together. - The aphlds are extremely small bugs, wblcb the ants use for cows, ' for the tiny things contain Juices which are to the ants as nectar and ambrosia. Although some of my - fellow gardeners Insist that I am ' wrong, I am certain that the ants, In order that these cattle of theirs ' shall be good providers, catch them and convey them to the most lus clous vegetables and the most fruit ful trees. I am sure of this be cause whenever I 'olamber up a plum tree to see If the fruit Is set ting. I find on an average one ant to every .200,000 aphlds this Is ' merely an estimate and(I am sure the ants are acting In the capacity of vaqueros. . Too can destroy aphlds by spray ing them with kerosene, but this 'if has the disadvantage of killing the ."' trees along with the aphlds, , and . when 'you have cut down- a dead tree, and purchased and planted an-: other it is too late to. hope for a fruit crop that same year. .? :;X '" : It any vegetation gets by the cut worms and the aphlds, moths of a number of varieties find it out by - some secret: underground means of communication they' have built up through the years and deposit their young, of whom they must be ex tremely fond,, for they leava them where the very choicest vegetables .are handy by..vv-'-t''VV With moth grubs, as with our own race, one man's meat is an other man's poison, .The currant worms fall 111 if they, when aroused from their sleep, gnaw at the privet ' hedge, so their fathers and mothers make sure that they are tucked Into snug little beds on or near the cur rant bushes. When they waken in the spring they , clamber up these bushes, take a firm toe hold on the undersides Of the leaves, and fan - to work. By and by the owner of the currant plants observes that the leaves are bulging In places, which means that the grubs are munching their undersides. There Is, however, one excellent way of getting rid of them. That consists vof cutting the bushes down, and It is pleasant "i l l , ? i tle creatures blindly bunting about for more bushes, and not- finding them. . . j ' i' Ton find, after gardening a very short time that Nature, (Ike man, is progressive, and Is already mak ing extensive use of man's discov ery of germs. Time was when bugs alone competed for some mysterious prise, which with ' the final crum bling of the universe Is to be award ed to the fittest to survive. But lately the germs, observing the ease with which beetles and aphlds and other creatures make a living, have decided that a .rich field is ripe for the harvest and nave taken to the soil Our tulips, which once bad nothing the matter with them except the results of ' occasional neglect bare this year been show ing signs of premature decay. We called In a tulip' doctor who said they had newly discovered germ disease. The progenitors of this malady are microbes which hide In the soil till they observe that the family is taking pride In the stately slender stemmed blossoms. Then they permit themselves to be car ried up In the sap stream to the petals, which they proceed to curl and after the fashion of the fries papers which our great aunts used to wear before the days of bobs and permanent!. ; Once these germs fall to work there Is one thing to do, which Is to pull the tulips up by the roots and never attempt to raise any more. If you do you will fill the soli with germs,- who pos- Infinite patience, ana then, their appetites keyed up by long waiting, will proceed) to do their stuff once more. After yon have learned, as you must that flowers and vegetables art becoming extinct on tbe earth, you may decide to provide pleasant surroundings by .raising a lawn. While you make this decision it Is conveyed ljy some mysterious air telegraphy to a growing army of beetles, which, driven out of Asia by overcrowding, stowed away on freight vessels and came East to grow up with the country. Arriving on tbe Pacific coast the beetles hltch-blked across the country till they reached Chicago, and , then, wishing one another good luck, spread fan wise eastward.' Some of them, having ah eye for lofty places, proceeded to climb the stately east ern elms, and denude them of ver dure, often overnight But here man was on the alert It takes a fine elm tree two or three hundred years to grow to Important slse, and many of them, were on the estateret the moneyed class. Spray ing machines were bonght and put to work and gradually the beetles became discouraged. : . . ' But with them came cousins of theirs who fed on grass. These in sect Nebuchadnezzar, as soon1 as they found a stretch of greensward, dug In and left baby grubs about six Inches under the soil. , When these hatched, and looked about them for foliage they decided that the young grass roots were excel lent eating, and these they masti cated till, lacking roots, the grass ceased to grow any more.; If you have a "brown patch" in your lawn. you will know what is the matter. Some million . Asiatic beetles are waxing fat under your sod, and will presently . fly forth only , to return again and start another grub hatch ery, f'-'-yfiy.- :Hv f i. yft .v t tod can cope with these Insects by spreading lead ... poison on tbe ground, but Hot for long. Tbe little rascals are discovering that lead is not particularly hygienic nutriment and soon the only way to destroy them will be to take out each grass root and. throttle the bugs you find munching on it That will take a long time, and most people, will find It Irksome. Time-war when. I was extremely sorry for Adam and Eve, who bad to leave their garden Just when it was at its gorgeous best But perhaps If they had not sacri ficed their prospects by misconduct and bad lived as long as some of the Patriarchs who followed them into the world, they would find Eden hardly worth -the trouble to pro tect against bugs. 'i ' f: O. Bill Smaieat. WMU Swrlo. ' . ... ?y , 1 ' Glove Making is Csechotlovakla Gloves have been manufactured In Czechoslovakia for nearly ISO Every few minutes, as I write, a motor car dashes by going some . where.' Every few Getting '-hours, on the r ; Acquainted clock, , a big alr . ' plane whlssea over my head carrying mail and passengers between JNew York and Boston..' r'Ciio. , . . , From - distance t can' hear at regular Intervals passenger trains thundering by, twelve or fifteen cars carrying people rom where they were to where they will be before a great, while. , , , i The traveler Is everywhere. The people of the world are rapidly get ting better acquainted., , ;' I suppose that long before my children are as old as I am now tbey .-, will if they ' have enough money be whisked from New fork to London overnight the Journey being Just as safe a behind an ox team was in the "days of forty nine.'' ... ' ; Safer even. ' There were Indians In those days, and they were preju diced against pale faced-strangers. ' Somehow or other, In spite of the Uck-ups In foreign countries, among which was the Great war, I think this Vaslng of travel Is going- to be helpful to this race of our - :J1 We are all pretty much-the same kind of folks, no matter what lan guage we speak, or what manners and customs we have inherited from our ancestors. Travel "for to admire and for to see" will be of great help in get ting rid of' bias and hatred which have come down from so far back that nobody remembers where they started. The United States bss absorbed thousands of people from many dif ferent foreign nations. ' They are as good Americana now as were the men who fought In the Revolution, In another : thousand years we shall probably have A common lan guage, and the word "foreigner" will be heard no. more. That Is a long time to look for ward to. But It will come, although you and I shall not get much ben efit out of it ' And ss easier methods of trans portation are discovered, and the peoples of all parts- of tbe world begin to know and understand and make allowances for one another, that mutual acquaintanceship will start world civilisation toward per manent, and wholesome peace - It tnUI' mot coaie to sty time or your. But on of our function fa iMi lift to to malt tko mure aar for our frmt-grt&gmutchildrmt. And fftal aught to b Mtiiaction enough. 'V..' . .. -M.:. Some months ago two men flew without a stop from. Germany to ,. New York. Such a (light would have astonished Tomorrow the world .- even after Wilbur Wright came to New York with his frail little flying machine-and twice circled the Statue of Liberty." r Perhaps not tomorrow, but with in a very few years men will fly easily from Europe to the western side of tM American continent ;r ' Hardly do you find an issue of aq American newspaper which does not record some event Which fifty years ago would have been regard ed as a miracle. , - But with all this progress, bow much has humanity changed? - .; i People talk today of a great Im pending European war. - . , There Is not a big city in the country . which la not from time to time, and often constantly. Invad ed .by. gangsters and racketeers. When and how will there be as much progress In the way of get ting rid of criminals as there, Is In so many other directions? ; It was only a few years ago that the spectacle of a locomotive rush ing down toward a motion picture audience made people turn pale and dodge In their seats. - . Today plays are produced on the scieen almost; as well at they are on the spoken stage, messages are sent through, the sir without wires, and locomotives are being built that will speed at eighty or ninety miles But Isn't; progress growing a lit tle more lopsided J .e, , , ,.- Couldn't there be a little more safety from criminals and grafters? Couldn't things be . so arranged that no man without good reason could own a machine gun, and that crook who wage street ... fights might be swiftly apprehended and put where, they copld do no further harm 7 ;r-,'lii:!f-: Vi . .We are progressing beyond -a dOUbt " fV.y'V: ' I--.' k :.i; 9-':f. -V. But much of that progress Is In the wrong direction, W-to : Wm look i toward tomorrow with hop. But wo Aavs (mi looking for ward to It or many yeart, and ihingt art $tttin$ vary UtUo tetter."'.: It Is the engineers who have brought about so much physical progress. 1 Perhaps it might be a good Idea to "sic" , them ori organized crime and grafting politics. , t. ' ; Evc. Jj 611 wHIZOMLV MOT (CwiW, w. p THE FEATHERHEADS .JL PipnW KmoW WHAT . ' wAS GoiVG To , ' . ' TO 6ET FEU-1 SAW ) ? SET THAT JMHEM J ".A , A LOVELY BATHROBE,, cd ' - Aw A VER " AND I THOUSHT I'D ' "X ANKy ZPPER NICF, Tbd " f ,3BT THAT . I BET HE TAVEUMJ BA 'f-XlL- IDiDM'T HOW HOW ) WEU.-WHlCH !W--7 'fiG. i - To DECIDE XU? j OWH BMALLl m, V V J.r1."' . I WHICri Tq . ' '' ' '' ' -r , ' , i , s , i ' FINNEY OF THE FORCE . ' Loosen Up Wbti'Rfc NOT poWt LOOKlrA"SO vCRY PERT GOT h ToPAY v Cw5 - -BUT rfHEKI tA 1WEU., NO-" "fS. HOW MUCH HE'P TIGHT , FeEUU' IS IT A SHARP r r: ' h the Lives cf Uz r : TV- I FOE AU. HjrjMW'-j f SSL boD art , ThiE- A rrilN POCTOR-VOU DDM'T WAMT TO B& -TAKM AMY CHAMCci 1 -TI6HT ? gf ANT THAT Ahck& CARRY YER, 1 T ,. f ,Jn r Lcn ' ) -.. i 1 1 i Compromise ? THIN IIN t?UU I GOINV BUJ- -tMER? tHAN.c i;r : I nX . - 1 ' " 2212- A pleated sleeve that forms an epaulet shoulder Is new and creates a strlkipg effect (Note the back: view, tod!) Add to that, the center front buttoning that Is so much tbe rage,, soft gathers above the bust line, and a patch pocket, and you've a shlrtmaker frock of unrivaled chic. It's a grand thing to Jump Into for that unexpected Jaunt, and is smartly at home in practically any daytime environment Make It in a", new printed linen or cotton, or a cravat silk.- It's stunning, too. In plalded or striped sports seer sucker or cotton; '' i ' v Pattern 2212 is available In slues 14, 16, 18, 20, 82, 84, 88. 88. 40 and 42. Size 18 takes 8)fr yarda 89 Inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew ing Instructions included. " . 'BEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) In coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. - Write plainly name, address, and style, number.-. BK SURE TO STATE SIZE. . ' - Address orders to the Sewing Clr-. cle Pattern Department, 248 West Seventeenth Street New Tork pity. EH . POLITE INCARCERATION "Do yoi 'think you can keep that X desperado In iaMT'u:';i':V:i'p "( don't, know," answered' Cactus Joe. "We're doin' our best We hare fired two cooks he didn't like, given him credit at the llcker dispensary"' and subscribed for all the magazines. -But somehow we don't seem able to keep blm satlsfled." - Why Not 7 '. Wlfey I think you ought to talk to me while I sew. -.-1 " - ' : . Hgbby Let'a change It around and you sew while I read. Pathfinder Magazine. J. h "... 1 Once It Eaoogh -C . ' Inquisitive Old Lady Passengeri Do boats like this sink often! . , j' V Sailor Only once,- ma'aBi, stv: . ; i t ' y-'JTwm AliM iSliS "-" Chow Bouid Hey, messman, what's wrong with these eggsl , " Mess Cook Don't ask me, I only laid the table. - . . WNU 4 22 8ri r WW-'- r hca they fall, to observe the lit years, -'-?'''-5:-:;':: .':
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