The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-05-27
The SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY
Taesaay, May 20. 1878.
From the Danbury News. J
Garden Making.

We suppose there is time that comes
TO every man when he feels lie should
like to have garden. II he takes such
notion he win tell his wife of it. This
is the first mistake he makes, and the
ground thus lost is aeyer fully recover
.ea.s She draws her chair up to his, and
lays ore hand on his knee, and purses
up her lips into q whistle OF expecta-
tion-the yixen-and tells, about her
mothers garden, and how nice it is to
have vegetables fresh from the vines
every morning, aud she will go right
out and plan the whole thing herself
And so she does. He takes his, spade,
and works himself into ,perspiration,
and she tramps around under friehtful
sun bonnet, and gets under his feet and
shriels at the worms, and loses her
shoe; and makes him first vexed, and
then mad, and then ferocious. After
the garden is spaded he gets the seed,
and finds she has been thoughtful
enough to open the papers, and empty
thirteen varieties of different vegeta-
bles into one dish. This leads him to step
out doors where he can commune with
nature alone for moment. Then he
takes up the seed and hoe, and a line,
and two pegs, and starts for the garden.
And then she puts on that awful bonnet,
and brings up the rear with long ham
died rake, and pocket full OF beans
and petunia seed, and dahlia bulbs
While. he is planting the corn,she stands
on the cucumber hills, anG rakes over
.theseed pan.o Then she puts the rake
Handle over her Shoulder, and the rake
teeth into his .hsiF,, and walks over the
other BEDS, He don't find the squash
seed until she moves, and then he digs
them out of the earth with his thumb.
She plants the beet seed herself, putting
al,eut two feet Eof earth and sod upon
them. Then she takes advantage of his
absorption in other matters, and puts
down the petunia seed IN one spot, and
afterwards digs them up, and puts them
down in another place. The beans she
conceals in the earth wherever she can
find place, and puts the bulbs in the
cucumber hills Then she tips over the
seed pan again, and apologies, and
steps on two Of the best tomato plants,
and says 30, myr which in no way re-
sembles wnat he says. About this time
she discovers hetter place for the pe-
tania seed, but having forgotten where
she last put them, she, proceeds to find
them, and within an Incredible brief
space of time succeeds in unearthing
pretty much everything that has been
put down. After confusing things so
there is no earthly possibility of ever
snnrayelling them again, she says the sun
iss killing her, and goes aover to sthe
fence where she stands four hoars, tell
.inesthe woman next door about an aunt
.-ef hers who was confined to her bed
for eleven years, and had eight doctors
from the city, but nothing would give
her any relief until an old lady-but
you have heard it before. The next day
man comes to his office to getthe pay
for patent seed sower which his wife
has ordered, and he no more than gets
away before the patentee Of new lawn
mower comes in with an order for ten
dollars, and he in turn is followed by
the corn .sheller, man, and the miserable
gardener starts for home to head off the
robbers, and finds bis wife at the gate
with his own hat on, and just about to
close bargain with smooth faced in
sdiyidual fer two hundred dollar now
ing machine, and pearl handled, ivory
mounted hay cutter. He first knocks
the agricultural inlplementVsgent on the
head, and then drags the miserable wo.
nan into the house, and locking the
sdoor, gives himself up to his emotions.