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PLANNiNG THE HOME, GROUNDS
)3y E, Genevieve Gillette
Dad, hist last cow nlilked, and Moth- 1 . A good way to .determine this is to
er with the supper dishes done, pull stand in one after another of the
the fascinating seed catalogues from ; portant windows. Is the view ob
underneath the libnary tableand be- strutted slay' trees or bushes .le the
gin the evening's fun. What plans la*n? Or do the trees and bushes.
they make! Never did tomatoes grow help to put the distant view into a
so' red and juicy or string beans so frame of greenery°on a stammer's day?
long and tender. Never were circum- Trees alnd shrubbery abould all Help
hers better for pickles or potatoes to frame. the ,pictures from your win-
fre'er from bugs! I dows just as much as they should a
The.garden seed list is along one; framefor the picture .that your neigh
the? mice got into that pop -corn and bor sees when he comes up the'road,
ate nearly every bit that Dad saved Therefore everything is placed 4n re-
for next Spring's planting. So down lotion to these views and in such E
the Iist it goes until Dad shoves back manner that the views are "framed'
his chair and takes off his spectacles, rather than broken. into.
Then Mother turns over to the last Now the museum style (for I feel
page in. the catalogue ---the one with justified in calling it a style) results
the picture of the Crimson Rambler— from a lack of understanding., and of -
and begins to remember how nicelyten times from indifference. Suppose
one of those roses would look,grow- instead of making a list of nursery
ing over the milkhouse door. Some- shrubs to add to that garden seed list
how it is very strange how a garden you,,take your pencil and paper and
list can grow so long. make a plan of your own dooryard.
For that very reason, if for no other, Draw itbig enough on a sheet of
it may not come amiss, at this time, brown wrapping paper—say an eighth
to jot down a few practical sugges- or a quarter ,of an inch equalling a
lions concerning the ordering and foot. Putin the arrowa where the best
planting of nursery stock about the views are and then begin to put in the
farm home. Almost everyone ,even in ' trees always far enough away from
these busy and strenuous times,man- the arrows to allow plenty of room
ages to plant something about the when they .spread, After that draw
dooryard of his home. If his work is some shrubbery masses around the
to count for anything—in other words house and on the boundaries but be
if his home is thus to be made more sure you leave enough for open lawn
attractive—he must have some de- space. Nothing is more disasterous
finite ideas about where this stock is to a country house than a cramped
to be planted. Ordering stock and and broken lawn. Leave it big.
trusting to luck to find a place where After you have your drawing made,
you can put it is never conducive to decide upon one kind of shrub to or -
making your home and its grounds der this spring. You can get them in
more pleasing. 1 "ten lots" cheaper than in twelfths of
The writer would say, after some i a dozen and you will be better satis-
fifteen years in the country and sonie fled that way. Instead of planting an -
months at Extension work, that the ' nuals so as to have flowers through
main trouble with most farmyards lies ' the season, plant perennials that come
not -so much in a lack of plant ma- year after year, They are great time-
(terials as in the arrangement of those savers' and are just about twice as
at hand. How common is it to find a hardy and effective. If you must have
yard arranged in museum style—a' annuals put them in the garden where
bridal wreath or a snowball on either! they are cultivated with the cultivator
Wide of the front door and a few mis-, and do not need so muck hoeing. Af-
cellaueous perenials and shrubs scat -1 ter a little we will get all these things
tered here and there about the lawn.: down to an efficiency system just as
Almost never does one find a farm- I we do with other things. We will find
house with anything planted about its out how to do, but we must remember
:base ,so as to clothe its bare -cold wall. that everything 'planted out before
Yet these very foundation plantings hand is just so muck at least half
(as we call them) do more to harmon- done. How better to spend • a long
In the house with its surroundings evening while the snow piles around
than any -other thing one can do• Of- the yard? To -night within all is cozy •
ten one finds in the dooryard enough and warm. Plan now for the beauty
plants to give the desired effect pro -.which may be yours when on a hot
Tided they were rightly placed. Are evening next summer after a hard
the things you already have set where day's work you settle on. the -veranda
they can give the best they have to- l in an easy chair to watch the twilight
wards the beautifying of your home? I grow deeper.
Old Story'Tellers.
People of all lands and all times
have Iistened with pleasure to those
who told wonderful or beautiful
stories and now a knowledge of the
Hess of those famous men, and the
customs of the people among whom times very queer spelling for our
they lived, is far more interesting English, in many respects the best
than the stories themselves. language in the world, has been made
A long time ago—more than five up from many tongues, and changed
hundred years—tire English listened by use and years,,
to the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; tales
In poetry of the green woods and the -•'s'`
singing of birds; of brave knights and
gentle ladies --romances of the day, •
He was a man who had read and
traveled much. He had spent his life
among the nobles and at the courts of !!1
kings—in France and in Italy as well
as his own England.
This . was, you know, so long ago
that kings and princes lived Manly in
rude splendor. The castle -homes, with;
their strong, thick walls ofstone,
their moats and drawbridges and nar-
row, tower windows, seemed more
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YET TO COME
The Ancient Things. .
In several parts of the 'world me
are delving and bringing to light th
buried remains of anterior civilization
They "dig and discover the place o
kings," and they reveal to us tha
what people used to be is singularly
like what people are to -day. Thei
passions and their pastimes, their ad
Venturing and their romance; their ac
counting systems and their modes of
worship, their speeches in a forum
or their bargains on an auction block,
their laws and their philosophies have
their survivals now, and across the
centuries men clasp hands on aspira-
tion and belief that have no age .be-
cause they are perennially true, for-
ever vital, and forever young. '
There is a passion for collecting
what is old, and one is inclined to
wonder sometlmea that it spends it-
self more on things, that one touches
with the hand than on. things that one
reaches with the mind
When I Am Old.
n When I am old and you are young
Who died so long ago,- •
e I'll say, "A fool I was to mourn,
But how was I to know?
t. "A fool I was to mourn, my dear,
The fortune that you had;
✓ Now here I am grown gray, while you
Will always be a lad."
When I am old the things I say
Perhaps will then be true,
Since fire and faith of me to -day
Lie young and lost with you.
—Marjorie Meek-er.
ago millions of people had a lesson
. A few days
been told to each other by a company they will not forget ' in the solemn
of pilgrims .going to the shrine of majesty of something they beheld and
Thomas a' Becket, at Canterbury, could not handle something they could
The English language was not then approach only by an upsoaring of the..
what it is now, and In reading any pilgrim spirit 'through the space tha
book ` of that time you find , many is between the stars,
strange words, and what seems some- Then one was forcefully reminded
that the grubbing atter dollars on the
ground is the least of businesses. How
much is all the power of finance ac_
cumulated in the world to a power
that puts a crown of pearl and gold
about the sun? For one minute in a
lifetime, if no more, one stood mute
and awed in the presence of the in-
finite and the eternal. And thedo-
minion of things shrank in the refin-
ingfires, millions of miles away, to lit-
tle consequence.
"Love that moves the sun and the
other stars," wrote Dante. That is
more than all the furniture upon this
small sublunary planet. It is more
than houses made with hands, or cities
laid out in rows, or bridges over
rivers, or smoke -plumed chimneys of
Changing a City's Name.
After having borne the name of
Christiania for three hundred years
the capital of Norway has recently
been changed to Oslo. This is the
name by which it was known before
1624, when it was under the rule of a
half -German king, Christian III., who
reigned when Norway was united to
Denmark—a union which extended
over a period of several centuries.
The• union had also included. Swed
•en, which, however, broke away and
teieeeefrequently at war with Norway
and. Denmark. More than once dur
ing those wars the town of Oslo was
laid in ruins, and at last Christian or
dered the complete rebuilding of the
city, which he decreed should be
named Christiana, after himself, •
Oslo, the history_ of which dates
back to heathen times, was the first
city of the mediaeval world to be de-
clared a capital next to London and
Paris. It has a population of 300,000,
and its. trade isbased mainly on the
export of lumber.
The patriotic agitation to resume
the old name had been going on for
nearly seventy years. Now it is an
accomplished fact by law.
Strength.
"Every. moment brings the power to
live it;
Every duty brings the power to do it;
Every ideal brings the power to mani-
fest it."
—Book of Items.
f IVot Without boubf.-'_^
like fortresses than pleasant dwell -in --"Men 1 the factories, or the rieep shafts of
g places. ff She Men are deceitful, without mites, or the whole accumulation of
t doubt." business and commerce in our marts
the men were brave lighters, and
the lovely, bright-eyed ladies—many Hs— You're not fair. Men are sei- and ' havens. Generous emotion
don deceitful without doubt. rom t•n t i •
ofwhom, with al] their courtesy, could • p pig o sere ce and to sacrifice
neither read nor write—spent their is greater far than the things we
time in embroidering the tapestry ; A Peculiar Sentence. gather into dumb and cold museums.
hangings of the great halls, or in Iis- A peculiar court scene ,was enacted In these few years we have we must
teeing to the songs and stories of re- in Paris before a venerable and bene- decide'what we want most of all; and
mance and love. volentlooking judge. Before passing
Latin was the language in which sentence, he consulted the two associ-
Most of the books were written, for as ate judges. "What. ought we to give
yet few knew how to print; but in the this rascal?" he asked, Ieaning over to
monasteries were men called monks, the judge on his right, "I should say
Who devoted themselves to religion three years," was the reply, "What
and study. There were beautiful is your opinion, brother?" to the ether
nibles arid great volulnes of legend on the left. "Four years." The judge
and history, copied out with greatest -then said, beamingly, "Prisoner, not
tare and decorated with ornamental desiring to give a long and severe
lettdrs, scrolls and flowering vines in terns of imprisonment, ,,as I should
gold and brilliant colors. i have done if left to myself, T have con -
According to the best accounts, it suited my learned brothers and shall
'was in the great house of a prince of take their advice. One says three
Edward III. that young Geoffrey Chau- years, the other says four; nyeown
car grew. up. There he was the ladies' idea was five years, so I sentence you
,page, and there he learned all the arts to twelve years penal servitude:" •
of a ;gentleman of his day—to love -,o--
God wind the ladies, and to serve hie Ariel Mythical Character...
kmng: , i Ariel was a. spirit of the airy in
When he was a boy of seventeen, Shakespeare's 'Tempest." He was
Edward claimed the.throne of France, imprisoned for twelve years in the rift
end, with a great foree, invaded,,that of a utloven pine tree by the witch
• country. With the royal army he went' Sycorax for Falling to peer the some
to France where.. he was taken prison-, impossible task. On thedeath of
or in the war, but was afterward ran- Sycorax he became the slave of the
Belted,. In after years he visited both monster Celibate by whom he was
Prance and Italy, on missions from his cruelly treated. Being liberated from
>ftivernment'
the -pine tree by Prospero, the grate.
It was not until he was a man of , ful Ariel served him faithfully for six-
Middle .age that he wrote the stories I teen years, at the end of which time
Which have made frim so famous, The he regained his freedom Ariel was
able to assume any shape, and even to
make himself invisible.
Plans and incidents of many of them
were taken from books he had read
or romances he had heard abroad; but
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he told thein in so pleasant a way that A Valuable Clock.
he made them quite as good as new. ( Sones had been presented with a
.11e loved the green grass and the,clock, brie day he Mee the donor, who
%Verne euiislibee, the singing of the asked him how the clock was going.
lark and the dew or spring mornings "Splendidly," said d'ones, "It's per -
When the flowers are opening. foot, Men the hands point to a quer-
nig works a"re many, but the best falter to one and t strikes three, we
a eeliection of stories •' tailed the i know it's Tuesday 111 Italy and Friday
"Canterbury Tales," supposed to hawo 1 over ieret''
when we have chosen food and clothes
and creature comfort instead of the in-
tangible solace of the spirit; it is a
sorrowful decision- that will leave us
poor indeed,
Right Design and Color In Rooms
• ' Vitally important.
The first sensation which a •guest
has upon entering a room she has
never visited before is one of color.
Ilow important then becomes the ques-
tion of selecting just the right design
'and coloring that will not -clash with
the other articles in the room.
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Britain Still Settling War
Claims.
Nothwitbstandin:g the lapse sof five
Years from the cessation of hostifitiea,
67,261 fresh claims in respect of death
i or disablement in consequence of the
creat Wary were disposed of in Bing•
land during the' year ended March 31,
1924, The nunsber, of claims admitted
during the year 'was 18,113, of which
6,685 were in respect of death, This
total included 11,788 first awards of
pension, a decline of 7,088 from th'e
preceding year anti of 28,149 from the'
year ended March 31, ,1922, when, how-
ever, the number of claims falling to 1
be dealt with was much greater. There
has been a progressive decline 1There,
fresh applications •eines the year end !
ed March 31, 1920, wben there were
.680,923 fresh. admissions to pension,
but It is commented en as a remark-
able fact that at the close of the year
under review claims were still re- Famous paintings of old masters,
ceived at the rate of 1,200 a week, 1 Gainsborough, Reynolds and others,
The approximate total expenditnre part of his famous collection at 'A.1 -
from 1914 to March 31, 1924, was sharp, Northampton, England.,
£532,230,000, The expenditures of : -- --�s ----
the year amounted to £72,230,000, l Poasihilitiec oof Village
This was about 48,500,000 below the
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This is Earl Spencer, who sold; to
buyers in New York, six of the most
expenditures for the prevtoua year and 1 Choral Work.
£34,416,000 below those for the maxi- ' Music these days is casting its he -
mum year, 1920-21. Included in this ' nign influence over rural districts as
amount for 1924 is the sum of £3,452, well as larger cities. There was a time
000 for expenses of administration, in 1 when outlying people did not have the
chiding fees to physicians and incl same opportunities of hearing and ren -
dental expenses of members of war' dering good music as their city sous
pensions committees: The report of , Ina' but fortunately, through the pro -
the Minister of Pensions states that; pagation of music in the schools,
9,255 artificial legs were supplied dur-i player pianos,= phonographs, etc., that
Ing the year and 1201 artifleiai arms. Idifference has largely been eliminated.
The greater proportion of these artifi-; To -day in many Canadian rural dis-
ciai limbs was in the form of renewals ? tricts music is being "put over" in an
g ambitious way -
of previous issues, metal limbs beinMore pupils are study -
issued to replace wooden ones. Artifl- ing music. There is concrete eve
tial eyes were fitted to 3,370 pension -1 deuce showing a desire on the part
ers. One hundred and seventy_four, of the musical organizations to get
hand propelled tricycles and 127 in- f together and pat on miscellaneous
valid chairs were issued to "grievously i concerts, choral evenings, orchestral
disabled" pensioners. Since the es- l performances, and other musical at-
tabiishment of the Ministry 4,334 handl tractions to create popular interest.
propelled tricycles and invalid chairs The idea of school music, too, is grow -
have been issued, including 113 spinal 1 ingn anthSas particular article; however,
carriages and 43 chairs or machines !
of special_ type. It is estimated that, i,it is the writer's intention of pointing
at the time the report was issued,' out some of the possibilities of village
2,656 pensioners were using hand pro- i choral work which may have been
gelled tricycles supplied by the Minis- overlooked In some sections. Prob-
try, 140 being officers, •ably the best way to do this is to re -
It is one of the duties of the War 1 fen Co a parallel case in England as
Pensions Minister to make provision 1 told by the choir -master of a rural
for the care of children of men who ! parish. church. He says: "As a rule
have died as a result. of their service, i the village church choir 1s so weakly
in cases where children are found to i constituted that it is impossible to
be suffering from neglect or wknt of " aspire to anything out of the ordinary,
proper care. The number of children but where there exists other places
under care at the end of the year was of worship, in addition to the parish
3,181. As far as possible these •child- church, much could be done if the
ren are placed with private families- members of the various choirs would
In addition to the children directly un_ unite in one body to sing.
der the care of the Pension Ministry, ,'Such a thing is done, and most sues
there were 18,157 motherless children cessfuily done in one village I know,
the parish of Cheddar in Somerset.
Here, each choir, Church of England,
Wesleyan, and Baptist, unite every
winter and learn a really good work,•
widows from the time of the"institu- rendering it at the end of March, or
tion of the Ministry in 1914 amounted eat•Iy April in each place of worship,
to 224,554; of these 4,441 were grant- before assured large congregations.
ed in the year under review. The num- By this means, not only is harmony In
ber of pensions to children from the music acquired, but also harmony in
beginning of the war to March $1, the social side of village life.
1924, totalled 409,867. `Practices are arranged once a
week, and care is taken that the usual
1 choir work of the various tphurehes
i is not interfered with, and the only
unhappy time is after the final ren.
; dering of the work, when they know
I that they have finished until the next
I Autumn,"
: There must be rural places in Cana.
da like Cheddar, self contained, equal-
! Iy capable, and able to find their own
soloists, organist, pianist and con-
; ductor for such an enterprise, which
✓-.... !undoubtedly furthers the cause sf
i music generally.
under general supervision at the end
of the year. The majority of those
were in the care of relatives.
The total number of pensions to
The Legend of the Hyacinth.
Evading the issue. The wild hyacinth was originally
He—"If you were to Live your life tonnd,.in Greece and Asia Minor. The
over again would you marry me?" ancient Greeks had a story about its
She—"Why-er er I might not meet origin to the effect that one day the
you ever, ! god Apollo was playing a game of
quoits with a young mortal, Hyacinth-
us, of whom he was very toad, when
A Poem You Ought to Know. 7ephyrus the god of the west wind,
The Little People. passed by. Zephyrus was jealous of
John Greenleaf Whittier is called ! Apollo anal blew the latter's quoit
e Quaker poet, and is one of the' aside, and caused it to strike Hyacin-
oble band, which includes Longfellow- thus and inflict a mortal wound. In itis
id Harriet Beecher Stowe, who memory Apollo caused three beauti•
trongly advocated the abolition of ful and fragrant clusterecl blossoms
egro slavery in the United States.l. to spring Froth the fallen drops of the
Though his early education was very I youth's blood.
efective, he stands as
one
of the:{ The hyaci;wetim Svcs brought to west•
hief literary ornaments of the,New ern Europe the Sixteenth century,
World. and extensily cultivated try Dutch
horticulturists, The original blue end
dreary place this world would be Purple blossoms were varied to num-
Were there no little people in it; !epees; :•shades of pink, rose, yellow,
he'song of life would lose its mirth � scarier and pure white.
Were there no children to begin It.
o little forms, like buds, to grow
And make the admiring heart sur- The health rules of Dr. Chat•,ee W.
render; • Fillet, 90, president emeritus of Har'
tt little hands on breast and brow i yard College, are tints given in the In
Toe keep the thrilling love -chords 1ernational:
tender. • . iat moderately.
Sleep at least seven hours at night
ie sterner semis would grow more' with windows open.
stern, j Take regular eexerrise 11 the open
Unfeeling natures more lnhnmmn air every day. .
As
nign to stoic, coldness, turn, tIse no stinutlants.
And woman would be less than wo Enjoy all the natural delights with•
man, oui excess in any.
Beep 1tnde�r all ciretuitet:n ees as
re's song, indeed, would 'lose its serene 0 spirit as nature permits.
charm Noah's Advice Needed.
Were there no babies to begin it;
A doleful place this world would be A mule-skiener in France was try-
Were
ry
Were there no little people In it. Ing lo drive a Mule with a wagon Brad
'th ongh at hosp•iial .lease. The mule
i tvonld do unything but pass through
life ilic gale,
"WgIllt any ]help, t•lt:xn?" shouted
To dee what he is about; one of the hospital orderlies,
d he "never expects any ships to "No." repiltd. the driver, "but l'd
conte in like to Ituow how 'Noah got two of
f he hasn't sent any ships out" these blighters into the Ark;"
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Eliot's Rules.
Work.
If the mariner's wise be looks
skies
The light eru'aet' "Vandal," Germ ilrr's drat bettleeliip sine, the end of
tho war, as specified in the_ Treaty of Versailles, was Iattnched a. felt' days An
ago at Wilhelmshaven., ; j s
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