The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-02
HOnE IHE DEAREST SPOT on EARN.
BILL ARP TALKS ABOUT Flow
ERS.

He Goes Into Ecstacies Over Nstssre's
beautiful Blooms and Credits His
Wife with Making Ham work
/ am not a linguist, but have been
told there is nc language but our that
has q word or EXPRESSION s~ignifying
home" in thu sweet, continental
meaning that we attach to IL. There are
words enoughothat mean q dwelling
house, an abiding place, but home has
a broader compass and includes all the
emotional surroundings-the garden,
the we'll, With its old oaken bucket, or |
the crystal spring at the foot of the
hill-the vines over the door and ON
the lattice--;the shade trees, the land
scape view from the window, the
cradle and the old arm chair; the
clock on the mantle, the pictures on
the walls, the faithful watch dog, the
chirrup on the hearth. But more than
all these are the loved ones who meet
us and greet us at the threshold.
The wise men tells us of the time
when man goeth to his long home and
the mourners 60 about the streets.
Our home here is very brief, we know,
but is the dearest spot on earth, and
should be loved and cherished by every
one who goes out from its sacred pors
Gdlo vi tObuCbo Wtbhln Vh0ln w Cov
from the cares of q busy world. 1t is
n of my constant regrets that there
are SO many good people lin this great
big world who have no home-not an
acre on Gods green earth they q
| call their own. II every family had o
home the children would grow up
better citizens, better patriots /;
the parents would hold up their
heads and be thankful to God for his
blessings. The good wife and daugh-
ters would treasure the vines they
the front yard-iowers that are the
smiles Of God upon q sin-cursed world.
The poet says:
THE world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear place our home"
1 was Illuminating about things as ]
sat in my verandah in the shadow Of
the v~ines--the Virginia creeper, the
madeira and cinnamon vines that by
day and by night are climbing higher
and higher, charging and unfolding
their tender leaves that will Don
cover the t~rellice. Ilove to watch their
daily progress. / built the framework
for these vines and am proud Of it.,
even though my wife did boss the job
and me, too. Twas she who made me
set the posts out two feet from the
edge of the verandah and brace them
to the top Of the columns. Twas she
who suggested canes from the cane
brake-long that were stuck in
the ground and their tops cut even
and fastened to the crossbar. These
canes are just n foot apart and are
interlaced with horizontal canes, also
q foot apart, and the basket work
keeps the whole fabric good and strong.
Strong and vigorous vines have al
ready climbed and twined around every
cane, but she said there must be win
dows In the lattice, SO that we could
sit in u chairs and see the trains go
by and the carriages and bicycles and
funeral professions and picnic parties
and the children going to school and
look at our neighbors who live across
the way. So there Is q space of three
feet where the vines cling close to the
perpendicular poles, but are not allow
ed to send out any horizontal shoots.
This gives us ample vision Of the outer
world, and / sit daily in my big arm
chair and rest my feet upon the railing
and ruminate upon life with it's bless
ings and am thankful that I live.
just q word about that railing. 1t
used to be about three feet high and
studded with upright balusters, the
top rail too high and the bottom one
too low for q good foot rest. So when
i bought the property the first thing /
did was to reform the long v%erandah.
1t cost but q trile to take out the up
right pieces and lower the top rail-!
run o middle one and then. % q
square pieces between tb5n f.
uate-them like o road % Jeriy IS
makes the chez 81 and most t.
able railing in the world, andy| hn
old y1an choice of three elevd Nbr
his feet and gives q modest Am
choice of two. / have already d id
in my brief life that there dXz&j ~
classes of people who like to M ste
their pedal extremities when in "a sats
of desuetude--old men and lazy lawyer.
Old age is excusable, for his legs ar,
tired, especially when his corpo(ositt
increases with advancing years, pr ht
Is bossed around the flower gardfn by
his loving wife the average lawAer il
excusable, too, 1 suppose, for it % the
brain that %quickens the flow OF blood
to the e~xtremities, and If the brain has
nothing to work on-no cases, no clients
the legs get sleepy and must have
rest.
I can tell q town loafer's g pretty
we'll by his posture when seated, An
old, confirmed loafer wants two chairs,
one to rest his feet upon. If he is a
lawyer he prefers a table.
LUZ L jill VII GuS ouDJcCU dBdlus, l.
vas thinking about the howers-the
new and beautiful flowers that MSs.
Arp got from Mr.. Berckman-theSe
cannas that are SO ~gorgeously lovely
and are 10Y blooming into beauty.
We had some yellow ones before, blt
now have other colors that are bril-
liant and attractive. / decorated my
vegetable garden last year with sub
flowers, but | don't think my wifH
fancied them. She said they madd
her eyes tired, but she Is delighted
with the crimson and orange and val
riegated Gamma and her MareschalI
Neil roses and ~earnation pinks. She
wants only So or SO worth of new
flowers every spring, and up to this
time she has had 1t, thank the good
Lord for His mercies. The weather
has been awful hot, but / have had to
dig and fork up the ground and haul
fertilizer In the wheel barrow and lay
off a new flower bed and change plants
from the old ones and tote water and
sprinkle and rake around till my
neither garments were moist and as
salty as Lots wife.
1t hasn't ralned q drop in three
weeks Notwithstanding my rheumatic
pains and my wife's corns and the
ROSTERS growing in the night, and SO
1 have everything to water every eve
ming. We have had nc man servant
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