The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-24
of freckles and tan il one begins the season
With the right sort of cosmetic.

of freckles and tan If one begins the season
With the right sort of cosmetic.
The well-brea English women who love
gardens are excellent examples, both IN
complexion and good sense. Mrs. Lou
don's Gardening for Ladies' written fifty
years ago, remains the most complete guide
for the amateur flower gardener. q work
which shows an author of ability and cult
ure far beyond the common. Yet she rec
ommends the labor of ga~rden-work. spad-
ing and digging. picturing tools which are
anything but the childish affairs now SOLD
for ladies' gardening. and q wheelDarrow
which looks to be particularly meant Tor
service.
Digging with a ~light-handled garden
fork in sunshiny air is particularly
Strengthening to the muscles about the
of figure which women crave the best pos.
sible prescription is o course OF WORK ont
of doors which brings the muscles OF the
shoulders into play.
English IN OF refinement are most
fond of real gsrden-work. Franc Hope.
granddaughter of the professor OF botany
In the University of Edinburgh, and niece
to the professor of chemistry. was q lady OF
an old Scottish family owning a large
garden of acres with three or four garden
ers, and of her it was said: Her garden
was the great interest of her life. b was
up early and at work late in it-workinR
as hard as her mel and doing everything
much better than they" She was out by
JAN WIN O09aot INV
thyme, thrift and ssxlfrage. and the Rosa
Spinosissima, more fragrant than any OF
the grand hybrlds or teas" she writes, or
she was off six miles from home. on the
taking up starry saxifrage; then, winding
her way back through a natural wood or
birch and alder. she comes on "sundry blue
mists of hyacinth" of q deeper shade than
usual. owing to the soil.
HER KNOWLEDGE OF WILD FLOWERS.
She could point out o hundred beauties
of wild plants whose Latin names she had
at her tongues end. but unlike our stilted
botanists, never failed to ~ the rich
homely English with them. Few artists
had such an eye for the combinations OF
color and form in wild or cultivated plants.
and, like an artist. she must work IN them
with her own hands.
Mrs. Frank Foster, who las written and
planned SO gracefully for che Ellzabethan
garden that We hardly know which to ad.
mire most, her acquaintance with old
poetry or modern gardening, has q precision
in her directions which betraysa hand that
has known trowel and seed-basket as well
as pen.
That most exquisite and poetic writer.
Esmeralda Boyle. who has gathered the
tributes of all languages for her favorite
few books of the century show more taste
and scholarship. writes even more delight
fully about my Garden" for which she
traEsplanted stored ivies and fragrant IRIS
our ladies' who go abroad bring home any
thing in plants to enrich the gardens and
waysides of their cwn country and link
their names with them. Noble English
women have entwined theirs with flowers
for hundreds of years., the sweetest lmmor-
tally that can befall a woman.
The Duchess of Bedford has had a place
in history over q century for her love of
flowers, which brought many of our favor
ties into cultivation, and Beivoir castle to-
day is perhaps best known for it's famous
spring gardens.
One of the rewards open to any quiet
gardener is that of bringing some new by
brid into flower which will enrich the
world long after he or she is under the
mold. The burial of all others one could
wish would be to have ones ashes after
cremation scattered at the roots Of ones
flowers.
In truth. gardening is to be the physical
regeneration of women, and / believe their
most successful mode of Income. Cultiva-
tors cry out, there 10 no money to be made
in gardening" because they cannot make
fortunes in the turn of q hand. as in bust
ness speculations. But women will be glad
to reap what they disdaln. A living does
not content the "rousing young business
man" OF the day. but women who toll hard
for uncertain returns teachers fretted by
tie irksome supervision of school boards
and the worse pecklng of the parents.o
office women growing grizzled in hair and
temper by lives shut away from sun and
want something TO expend their energies
upon without particular talent for any,
thing, will find gardening the open way to
q living and satisfaction in it.
l hear the buzz of angry protest against
this opinion.
1T is too hard work." from women who
stand, from morning until night, behind
counters and faint in dogdays for want of
'It is too COARSE from dress-makers who
cannot imagine existence possible without
tight corsets and the last cut of skirts, who
lunch on beer and strong cheese in foul
workshops, and whose gossip is often
l. fouler yet.
ut doesn't pay and is not refined from
women who are haggard over stock con
Germs and scarcely have time to glance at a
book or picture long enough to even talk
about it; who must concoct end cajole.
stoop. fatter and endure sights to carry
out their business projects, whereas people
must have fresh flowers and fruits. and the
finest command almost their own prices.
THINGS HARD TO FIND.
Nothing is harder to find to-day than fine
fruit or really choice flowers, though the
markets may be choked with inferior stuff.
1 have gone this spring through the best
markets of the metropolis hunting high
price shops for fruit ft to be eaten by a
person in delicate health and found little
of it, even at fancy prices.
India river oranges at GO cents a dozen
and Hamburg grapes at 81 O pound were
the only things relishing or suitable to i'm
paired nutrition. What is not good for a
sick person to eat is not very wholesome
for the well. and is certain to pull down
the strength sooner or later.
We lave a good deal to learn to be choice
in our eating. We know enough to reject
tuberculous meat. but are insepsible To
tuberculous diseased fruit and it's corrosive
acids. The trash that goes into the mouths
of q city is unspeakable. People will know
the difference Just as soon as really good
fruit becomes plenty In the market, and
that will only come by the careful ~cultiva-
ton of small gardens, q work for which
women are suited by their painstaking
tastes, and it will be a public benefit to as
sist them to undertake 1t.
The disagreeableness and drawbacks OF
gardening are not few, but every years ex-
perlence convinces me that they are by nc
means invincible. Women will be quick.
est to devise remedies for uncomfortable
give up ~corsets. and that gardening can't be
attended to in q blue veil and RULED muslin
frock. They will be vastly more comfort
able in the flannel blouse or the cool linen
which the English lady chooses for her gar
den and country dresses.
They will also find that q mat to kneel
upon, o low seat for many operations with
q portable awning are all practicable, and
that it is possible to leave WORK in the noon
sun for the sorting of fruit and flowers in
shady. airy sheds.
The best fruit-gardens are so planted az
to secure shade from parching suns, and