The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-21
THEIR HONE
On THE PRAIRIE
Experience of a Man and His
Wife in a Boom Town
HER CASTOR BEAN HATE
And How Relief Came From
an Unexpected Source.
HER CASTOR BEAN HATE

When We returned from our honeymoon
we went At once to the mid prairie town
selected for our home The place had
doomed. failed and. on the support Of
two wheat crops. partly recovered. The
boom houses on the additions were I'M
occupied and could be bought Tor tribe
compared with their original cost. We
bought q Tot and prepared 10 move one
OF the dwellings on il.
We selected u fve-room colonial affair
with loaded glass in the front hall and
soft pine floor in the kitchen But it
las possibilities. declared Caroline. We
must build porch and put a furnace
ard
Let's move first i suggested. ] only
regretted that the condition Of nay purse
would not allow me to buy the two va
cant lois on the -time-to-be shady
side Of the choice street OF the town. i'm
stead OF one.
I'VE VIII buy the other when We can
declared Caroline. confidently, nobody
viii want il now
So We Med and graded and sodded. max
end il was with considerable complac-
ercy that we noted the admiring gianccs
o. the townspeople as they drove by eve
Rings Buggy-riding takes the place of
parks. sea-shore and mountain climbs
for jewellers on the level lands There
Is nothing else for them 70 co.
we planned a huge Gamma bed for the
center Of the other lot and had made
q long list OF shrubs and hardy plants
10 be ordered Tor its adornment
And then trouble came.
! kept 1t from Caroline as long rs
could. but one day she met me on The
half-grassed lawn where bluegrass strug-
eIed with pusley. cockleburS and am
bilious sunhowers her face showing signs
OF deep grief
~Oh. John. she began. what do you
think obsons have"
Yes. ] knew it last week
THAT they bought the other lot2"
yes"
sand can't we set ito
1--WE tried-he don't want 70 sell"
Her pink apron went' over her head.
end she fed 70 the house.
Gobsons were commoa-no denying that
Rot two square feet Of grass grew on
the lawn 1T their present home on Har-
Tison boulevard CWestern towns do not
huve streets, an are "boulevards au1
avenues. Boxes, barrels, and trash
filtered the back yard
And they sun 10 castor beans broke
out Caroline when / overlook her Just
think Of that forest of monstrosiues along
their sidewalk
But they've got money. and Gobson
told me they intend To nix the lot up in
hne shape
Caroline was not convinced. and refused
& look southwark across the vacant lot
sE the remainder Of the dsy
Gobson also got a boom holse-one Il
r mhiiug dry goods box style-snd he set
It close TO the northern edge of his lot
bringing il very near 10 our own He
covered the lawn with the buffalo grass
OF the western prairies because th5 why
gray growth would survive the hot SUM
mer months without sprinkling.
Caroline watched it aH dismally one
DAY she broke out crying. "Oh John.
she muttered. castor beans-I SOW them
"a hundred are coming up along the
line
They'll hide some OF the uglness. any
how" suggested. but that aid uot soothe
her
A frm-set purpose marked her features
tn remainder OF the day and ] WAS
not much surprised when late In ,he
evenins she slipped OCT through the
kitchen and into the back yard fol-