The Jersey City news., 1899-10-23

dens A book recently publshea Df
woman. "Elizabeth and Her German Car
den" is what set two or three clever
souls to thinking that there was more run
and nictaresoue effect to be got out OF
flowers Than by coIdbEoodedly purchasing
tbe scentless phenomena our florists pro-
dpce or giving over the whole horticul-
t,,ral business to a capable gardener.
This winter acres of ribbon bed are.
eoing to be plowed up. great many ex-
pensive greenhouses are to be Closed anu
the mistresses of big country places are
to have gardens laid out that express
some special individuality or floral pas
sion of their souls. During the winter
season lectures on soils, fertilizers SUD
soil drainage and landscape VIII pe at
tended. and the women are already deep
in books on French italian, English ana
German gardens.
As was to be expected, some WONDER
fully clever notions have already eeeh
evolved and put into prosperous execu-
+san and Mrs. Mckay Twombly ieads
With her exquisite wild-hower garden
,7,hss has been made under her personal
snnervtsion at her Morristown place. Tne
,,,ld flowers have not been planted In or
nate beds nor subjected to course OF
cultivation, but gathered up from every
mart of the State and set down In a rien
soil m flourish and blossom in an entlreis
rustic environment
the whole season through some groups
of these wild plants are in hower, ana
bacause of the good soil and abundant
,vs+ar and weedless freedom they are
GIVEN thew have produced large, glorl-
ously tinted blossoms that are never pleA-
ed for house adornment.
In on the Hudson Mrs sehnyier cros-
hv is perfecting the most admlraple eA-
sn,nle in this country of an eighteehtn
century garden, a fair copy IN SIZE anu
,l.,, of the renowned Italian gardens at
/. cra,,,t ham Courtney on the Thames. MRS.
yu,5i;arn Rockefeller has nearly complelen
,,aont;ful example of sunken gardens
- ber Hudson place, and among 9ne
,,o,,rg women it is the fashion TO not
a,,,,, nreside over but work in what are
prettfly called loves acres.
loves acre is modest square OF
gro,,nd enclosed by a high gray stone
wall or thick close-chpped eversree'1
9,azga o,t of which on four SIDES low
stars arches lead. In the centre OF me
sonare is a tiny stone or white marpie
ten,nle supposedly dedicated to Love. n
4 ara r,ps and stone seats covered Win
,,,ys and stone vases to hold cut or grow
ing flowers. and a stone table where BOOKS
lie and a breakfast, or lunch, or tea can
he served.
rha flowers in this charming precinct
grow in a broad bed that runs at lne
+ha fouy sides. and only the quaintest'
most sentimental, old fashionsc pian'.'
find footing there. Wall mowers ncsis
hooks painted ladies. pretty maios. ia"s ?
slippers. blue-eyed Mary, EMBELLISHMENTS
ing sweet sultan. sweet William, lofge.-
ne-nots. etc., mingle their pragntls -so'7
ored faces in the gay crowd rnat SHOWS
60 advantage against the gray stone y
green cedar background. and one roman
t;r n4ase of loves acre is that NOBODY
save the owner is supposed TO tehu tAs
wants of these delicate pensioners
F,verv mademoiselle who sets up one
~ +tase gardens has box of pretty ngnt
+ools for her own use, and in vast pair
If cloves a berfbbened hat, and q hugeiy
becoming apron on the warmest Gays
-,,,i1a maid or man servant holds an
,,rsrhre1la over her head, she digs, and pats
and urunes, and sprinkles her mowers
She gathers them when she desires IN a
daar little osier basket fastened on the
ton of a staff with a pointed end that runs
into tne ground and holds the receptacle
band,lv and she gives teas in a temple 70
celebrate the coming into bloom OF eacn
specie of flower.
49,
Those of us fussy regarding the little
niceties of life will be rejoieed TO kno"
that some of the largest and best nrnns as
we'll as several large corporations nave
had placed among their printed rules tne
delightful one prohibiting the use OF the
word lady says Dorothy Maddox IN the
Philadelph8 Enquirer
This rule refers, of course, to the mooe
of address which is used by employees OIL
firm or corporation toward women pa
irons. / for one know of no more lrri-
tating feeling than that aroused by being
addressed as ssIady'' when am shopping.
Many firms fail utterly to realize what
stress a real lady places on this fippant
term. To have salesman approach one
with the question, What can do for
YOU. lady?y or .'This way, lady, is to re-
ceiye an almost pointed insult, according
to strict code of good manners, al
though, bless the man, he does not realize
his blunder.
When he says lady In place Of mad
am he thinks he has reached the very
apex of suavity. He simply does not
know; and the firm that employs this
tvpe of clerk should lose no opportunity
to coach him in the far better style ot
madam
The word madam should be used by all
employees on trains. boats. in cafes-in-
deed. wherever women cpngregate. EsDe-
cially should the rule hold good In large
shops 4 salesman's tactful manner il
worth hundreds of dollars to a firm.
vert into department the other
morning. never dreaming of making a
final purchaae The gentleman who wait.
ed on me-faF be was one In every sense
of the wers:--received a large order be
fore left hiu I can truthfully say tht
mans earnest deferential Manner
manner void Of the slightest eringing OIL
fattery-sold each article purchased.
II at any time should want anythinl
that l think this salesman could sell ms
I should hunt him. up in preference i,
any other. We have to suffer keenfy II
more ways than one from unframed peo
p;e but am assured by women and WON
en- that all i'll manners seem punctuatei
by the use Of that one uneanny wore