Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-24
Living From the Garden.

Gardeners, and above all, farmers,
nave no business to live meanly, or to
think of themselves as obliged to
drudge ceaselessly without the in
dulgences of other classes. One has
no business to see town folks having
early vegetables and berries month
before his tardy supply comes on, TO be
out of them in dog days before the
merchants and cheap boarding house
keepers in the city have begun to see
the end of fresh tn ngs; he has no need
to live on doughnuts and boiled dinners
the year round, when others try the
changes of spring lamb, fresh fish,
boiled chicken salads. ducks and green
peas, capons and veal till turkey time
comes again He ought not to see
town homes fragrant with flowers,
while his wife has only bunch of
syaringa and cinnamon roses, with a
tuft of asparagus, to sWeeten her
parlor when she. thinks to pick
them. What batter right have rich
men to sit over desserts OF choice
pears, plums, grapes and apricots,
while he must content himself with
Baldwin apple in midwinter? Who
should have a becoming home with it's
lawn in front, and wide borders of the
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small, perhaps. yet hung with wood
bine, wild grapes and roses against the
back ground of orchard and nDt-trees,
spreading their thanking boughs with
good effect as if it We're cottage ornee.
with it's acres of strawberries. Why
should he not have in his garden choice
of fruit for the season, strawberries,
cnrrants and gooseberries jostling each
other i'm earliest perfection. red and
black cherries, golden aad purple
plums, plenty of black caps to make up
for the lost Strawberries, and grapes as
soon rs raspberries are over, big
blanched salads and peas in succession,
as we'll as his town neighbor who sells
him groceries and cotton? Why should
he not have as fine pears, peaches, win
ter apples and grapes at Christmas as
well SIS the President of the herticul-
tural society, and why should not his
girls have big French roses and tube
roses sas well as the solitary dahila and
China aster, which decorate the yard,
and Hhe common geranium mdoors?
Why doesn't he have a herb bed to
make his plain dinner savory, sind law
endersto sweeten his sheets at night?
A poor English cottager will have all
these by thrift and contrivance- Why
not put it in front of dis house instead
of behind it. and instead of making his
cabbage and potatoes his main features
of the place, why not screen them from
the road and from sight by belt OF
choice fruit trees, and have trees to
shelter his cattle outside the bam fence,
shutting off all that is unsightlyP Why
doesn'G he raise plenty of fowls,
pigeons, and a sheep .or two on his
lawn, 10 supply his tables, to find fer
tilizes for the pining garden, and yield
his wife pin money. instead of paying
so muck to the butcher and buying salt
fish by 6le box? PlaEts cost money.
do they Your wife spends enough
for baking powders weekly to buy a
fine tree or choice rose; instead 0fmak-
ing good yeast bread as her folks did.
She buys a shilling's worth of cheap
edging fr the pinafoEes instead of
making neat hcmmed ru lies, and spoils
more cretenne and red canton 1ian-
mel with bad fancy work than
would stock a garden year by year.
Then the children must have their fire
and ten cents worth of candy every
time one goes to the store, when fruit
would BE- mach better for them, and
the money would buy towers and
flower seeds. You might have enough
to stock the garden, buying groceries
by the months supply, instead of
from hand to mouth, or by taking
care of the tools and things you have,
so as not to pay SO mu b for repairs. .
WON'T say anything about the fire.
works you subscribed for election
night. or the excursion that gave
your wife sick headache the week
after, nof the Jig saw or card printing
press you must buy for your hopeful,
because the other boys each have one
and you are tired of his teasing. Nor
of the horse you lost by leaving him
sweating at the grocery door one cold
day while yon stopped just to get o
pound of soda and hear what al the
ioungers had TO say. Of course Won
cant have anything like the rest Of |
folks; it is not in nature, your own ma
ture, that you shoald.-Susan Powers.
in Ecs's 1hoB h.y.