The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-20


answer 10 SO many inquiries will give my expert
| ehce IN their culture Some years since bought
DWafI Pearl tubcrose planted it in a larse pot il
doomed IN July and again in October; had from
MY 70 sixty Lowers on a stalk. 1t continued to
| grow but each spring took out a few bulbs The
fourth yearI examined the old bulb 1t was perfect
~ soit seemed to be mass of pulp. lifted il care
luli! ana found the layers between the bulbs were
decayed but the small bulbs were sound l planted
Iof IN the yard: they grew finely but the cold last
| winter destroyed most of them. 1t is hest TO let
them remain in potts. take off the top of SOIL put in
1resh SOIL; remove the outside tubers il new plants
! are wanted. Plant the lace moss in sandy noise
SOIL tout not vet, put in cool shady place clear of
frost; don't water till you see signs of growth Now
! KIND sisters, owe you my thanks for the flowers
you sent me; have laid each of your letters carefully
away. | Will send as long as have them to spare,
| ifnot now, can in the fall Mrs William H. j.
can get the cape jassamine from Mr.. Adam Myatt,
| Marion, Perry county, Ala, if the one sent her
don't live.
! Mrs Katie Turner, Willis, Tcxas-It has been said
| that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world What stupenduous power to rest within
SO Trail grasp, and would ask, how are we WELD
/ ing this power how dealing with the sweet
blossoms that gladden. our homes, and lend variety
to our lives; are training the delicate, cinging
tendrils upward or are we allowing them to wander
| in wild confusion whittier they will. With loving
, care and genial sunshine the frailest bud may
! thrive, expand and burst into q radiant flower;
| without, ii will wither and die
pebble in the brooklet's bed
Has changed the course of many river
! \ dcwdrop on the baby plant
May warp the giant oak forever
| It's startling to consider that we. each of us are
generating impulses and inculcating principles that
! Will go ringing down the corridors of time, and vi
brate on the shores of eternity. The tree that has
grown rugged with the fight of years, looses its
elasticity and pliabiity, but once. that stOrmbat
tered oak was delicate plant that might have been
prned into symmetrical loneliness. Different tenn
peraments require different modes of management.
1t nccestaes thought and patience to untangle the
intricate meshes of the human disposition. Dickens
truly said, There chords in the human heart,
strange varying strn"S, that are only struck by ac
cldent, that remain mute and senseess to appeals
the most passionate and earnest, and respond at
last to the slightest casual touch. How, or when,
that touch may be given, we know not Woman's
influence is aswie-spread the universe and limit
less as space; it reaches backward and forward,
nom the cradle to the grave and from that dread
country that Dante graphically describes to the
grand domain of which Milton sublimely sings.
To the sweet girls who are just budding into woman
hood and those who are assuming home response
bllites would say. set your mark high; let your
aims he grand and noble, and then strive with
faltcrng zeal for full fruition.
Acknowledgment EllireSS. Will not Iy TO lClk
low much love the WomNns Kingdom, for the at
tempt would only prove q failure. 1 often wonder
fyou have any idea of what blessing this depart
ment is, of how much joy and happiness it carries to
thousands of homes every week. I have friend
who is personal friend of yours have heard her
speak of you so often you hardly seem like
stranger to me- have q set of fish scale iewelry
consisting of three pieces one for the pin, for
the hair and small spray for the neck, which
would like to sell. Should any one wish to buy my
address is with the editress. Can any one tell me
where can get glass melon seed. With best wishes
for Aunt Susie end Womans Kingdom, close.
Experienced Turkcy-raiscr Seeing Miss Mile
Ienrys request for rule for raising turkeys. will
send her one which l know to be good. Put the
eggs in a nest of pine straw put hen on them and
build nen round her; go look ct her every dav or
two, to see how she is getting on. In about three
weeks get pan of warm water and try them if
they kick put them back think ng they viii hatch:
if they don't kick, put them back anyway, hoping
they will hatch. When they begin to hatch fit is
raining Dit is very apt to be- go out and see if any
have drowned and how many the old hen has
mashed Put the old hen in ANEW coop; go out every
hour or two and look at them and come back and
tell everybody how pretty they are and how fast
they grow. When a month old if they are in your
garden you must take them out, because they are
eating up your green's if they not in the garden
you must put them in they can cat the worms off
the green's. When two months old, if you have
wheat REID near, you must turn them out so they
can eat the green; if you have no wheat field turn
them ont anyway The first time it rains. run out
in the hardest part of the shower to if any
drowned; If not you must come back and tell what
good hen that is to all those little turkeys in
such hard rain; If they all drowned you must
say she is good hen anyway, because she would
have saved them if she could in the fall when
negro hot suppers begin, let them roost out the
fence one night and if you have any left by morn
ing, it should give you courage to try again next
year. This rule never fails.
Note-Ths letter is from little boy ridiculing his
sisters way OF raising turkeys.
Mrs E. A. Wrens, Ga. I wish to inform Mrs
Clare Mayberry, Fairmount, Ark can supply her
with the Spanish peanuts fer her two acres of poor
land. and feel safe in saying to her. You couldn't
plant il in anything that would ray better. Notice
an article in of the back numbers of the South
ern CultivatOr telling how to cure the vines for
winter COW food. would prefer in return, for the
peanuts, of your most rare rose plants, honey
suckles, springa, and Towering amnlon. / will
send peanuts at once, if you'll address me as above
stating where to send them. will exchange hen
eggs of the Buff Cochin breed with any of the sisters
for the same of Langshan Wyandotte. Aunt
Susie, as the head of our family in whose name
THE Constitution has heretofore been coming is
quite ILL., J. in his stead herewith enclose the sub
scription price for a continuation of the paper
addressed as before.
NoTI.-TheTe was no subscription enclosed.
A. !. Brownlee Lisbon, Texas: Another year has
passed forever, gone, more chapter in fe's his
tory is completed, what is or rather will be the
sequel? Can We PROFOUND a correct and definite
answer to this query? In life no, never Seated by
a coy fire. little ones in dreamland, all nature
hushed in repose, with myriad of twinkling stars
smiling through the ether blue, my mind inyoun-
tary reyerts to the past endcayorng reruse this
chapter find defect after defect mars every PAGE
otherwise might have been written with less imper
fiction minus los. opportunities. Ali what erring
ones we arc ever regrettng the past, with a won
derlil resolve on redeeming but often find the
closing chapter terribly defaced, with very few Of
the many faults previously committed oblierated
How many mothers would love 10 place conspicu-
ouly upon liable lies history accessible to every
curious eye, especially those of our children? With
many Of US the proximity Of this volume would
prove grievous nuisance. This life is a bubble in
the ocean Of Time and rapidly drifting into vast
eternity. The shadow only; the substance lies
beyond in the sweet by and by If tits be true,
docs II not behooye to toll and labor persistently
in tie Masters vineyard that we may merit "Wel
DONE thou good and faithful seryanH' When the
Master comes to reckon with His servants it is SGD
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