The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-10
WINDOW GARDENS.
A Thrifty Practice in Boston's "Lit-
 tie Italy"
Boston Tranacript,

Boston Transcript
 Grocery box window gardens are the one gets in Little Italy. for there are no parks except the big treeless waterfront on Atlantic avenue, where the bathers enjoy life, and there are no trees any where to relieve the baroness of this dis trict. There are places where not a sim gle window garden Is to be seen, and again the bare blank walls seem to have blcssomed like an oasis in the midst of Fleet and Moon streets there is box garden half way up the building that is sure to arrest attention, for 1t furnishes the sundial or the way Just nere. @ mne flower that is now in blossom. When the sun rises it turns its face east, and at the set of sun the blaze of yellow petals is turned westward. At present this one sunfiower is the only blossom that glad- dens this section of the city. There are other boxes. to be sure. but no flower.
 The thrifty Italian mother is not will ing to use her handful of earth for gaudy show, but is is a means to supply her with a bit of luxury. Many Of the gar dens contain mint that grows up so rank and green and sturdy that it Is a delight to street weary eyes This mint Is used In saVory sauces, and helps to make refresh ing salads. Other gardens are devoted to tomato plants that are very vigorous, for the boxes are usually hlgh enough 10 catch the sun, and they are Watered 80 that never a speck of dust aims their beauty. That is one thing above all others to notice in these box gardens, that they are always so freshly green and in such vivid contrast to the dusty buildings and r Italians, more than any other. people, value tomatoes and each one that comes to perfection is as carefully tended as only do the housewives delight in the fresh vegetable themselves. but, generally speaking those home tended are better | otA AIn rlrnf va6 each one is jealousv saved to make to- mato sauce for the spaghetti without which no Italian Sunday would be Sun day. One soapbox gardener one season sold enough tomtoes to give her quite a little pin money. No one who knows the Italians well will be surprised to learn that many of the boxes are devoted to peppers. for they in truth furnish much of their spice of life, and even the little l italian girls know how to stuff and cook | them in dozen different ways that tempt the palate.
 | In that 1t contains green corn. The stalks are growing finely and no palm could wave Its leaves more triumphantly. Indeed, the corn is quite decorative. Some fine morning in August the little | Italian woman, with gold rings gleaming l In her tiny ears. will lean out of the window and gather green corn enough to | serve her lord and master for dinner. An | other Kitchen garden grown In soap | hox is full of pansies and lettuce, and still | another full of scarlet runners. forms a | screen for the room within | eventide and again in the morning | these mirnic gardens are Matereo. some | tirnae If ia an olrd woman's pleasure to | sprintIe the plants: again 1t Is child s; | hmt ,suaIIv it is a mother with baby in | ber arrns and another little head peep | inq over the box to see If she does 't
 right.
 Hr;tain,s Terms: Unconditional Sur | render
 New Yorw World r-,..,-- .s,.s | I.ast March Great Britain offered peace
 ,erTn' tn Rotha for the fighting Boers. It was proposed that the, republics should
 elected Legislature. The proner was re-
 'eTISo rwo months ago Sir Michael Hicks | Roach stated ir d speech that the BoerS
 would receive "a measure or freedom not
 enjoyed by any con c9ntlheh'9l 0o"i''i' | meaning. ss huncompe. - o-..1 ss | Nfr Tbanberlan stated on october o
 M MT ,,'[ terms of last March are not now
 offared The demand Is today nncohul1
 GansI surrender" The Boers are to throw
 t,ors.,I,,os tii uD9n the mercy of the court.
 'IItat t6at mercy means Chamberlain
 haa s'i Iator explained. The Boers are
 to receiye self f-goyernment-whent they are it for 1t! ,,t,teb aves will thev be
 nt? The venerable Lore , Saspury sn niiiseil
 says !. aI,;ye inc Boers home rule!
 ti9Iis sU dSitionai surrender to win serfdom ttN roaTcifui gift of the conqueror! Is
 it any wonder the Ioers are making
 iast-ditch fight? ---
 ra+ every white man in Montgom- orr +rrr out and vote for Ratifica-
 t;S,, to1.orrow, It will take only a
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