The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-07

maze garden. Il nave written IL "cnleI
~" claims the author, because no one
else has written Of a garden SO sim
pie, inexpensive and thoroughly home
made as mine. A garden may cost a
fortune or 1t may be had for almost
lnothing--like mine" Mrs. Thomas's
garden like all such pleasant plots that
grow slowly to perfection, Is an album
of pleasant searches for plants of ma
lures sowing. Of gifts from friends.
Of exchanges with neigbbors. Hard
ly a fiower-loving friend have I who
has not left an autograph in plant. or
shrub or tree in my garden"
She doesn't mention the planting of
the birds. but surely they sow seed for
such a kind friend they do for all gar
denerers, I have seen a whole forest
Of magnolfas sprouting under a grove
Of liveoaks. the blood-red seed of the
magnolia dropped to good ground by
the birds.
She has learned to read all the signs
OF the flowers. their feeble little ways
Of trying to let us know their needs
that We may lend the helping hand:
| The leaves are always its expression
OF well-being or its signal of distress;
ono must never disregard their mes
| sages." The gardening on the side of
the New Hampshire mountain Is land
| scape gardening with a broad sweep
for even the coming of the rainbow Is
taken into account:
| "Ah, those rainbows, how glorious
they are! Nothing in the way Of
scenery could be more enchanting than
| one of those great glowing, double, and
sometimes triple arches of colored
| light, resting ON pillows of verdant
tree tops, overshadowed by threatening
thunder clouds. and framing within
| their shining arcs the rock crowned
| peak of Lafayette. True emblems of
hope and promise, the blacker the
tempest towers above them the bright
| err smiles their steadfast CLEAN.
should be sorry indeed to have that
sight broken in twain by even the best
| of trees"
1t is not only the ways Of flowers taht
one learns In tending and loving a gar
den. The gardener learns quickly the
characters of the visitors to the gar
den. Sin gardening las in all other pur-
suits, 1t Is always the connoisseur who
sees the good points most quickly and
touches most lightly on the short COM
ings" Such gardener as the one
who writes these pages. bright them
selves as garden borders are is
painter. Her studies of perpetual or
rather perennial colors rival those of
Delaciux in color-combination. A
gray HdlI eNVelOpeQ In the
fairy flowers Of the lavender aster of
the fields (the Michaelmas daisy and
above these a mass Of snowy hydran-
gea. A group Of dim evergreens and
a bed of cardinal flowers against 1t.
Such a gardener learns, and teaches
| sweet philosophy: The experience
| won from horticulture is so greatly
and interestingly administered that it
leaves no scars like that in other
lswalks of life"
The gardener who lives among the
plants and leaves and loves their ways
| does not envy the more elaborate gar
dens of the very rich where all COM
bination of color Is, but the work of
the florist. These garden owners ARE
| like those other unfortunates who &C.
cupy an opera box night after night
without any knowledge or appreciation
! of music. Such people regard nature
and music alike merely as agreeable
1 sitttpgs for social functions To the
breadth and height. the glory, the
mystery, and the inner meaning OF
| these words Of the soul they are deaf
| and blind"
A little book full OF wisdom and
beauty. Pages full of practical les
| sons given with such charm that one
turns the last page with the same re-
| greet with which one closes behind one
the gate Of fair garden.
I Felsengarten. Our Mountain Gar
den. by Mrs. Theodore Thomas Crosse
| Fay.)
The seiners will be reviewed next
week in The Advertiser.
Wings and No Eyea.--A Comedy of
Love. BY Philip Crutcher. With H.
lustrations by Virginia Hargraves
| Wood
| The author of wings and No Eyes"
| knows his small town of the South !;
knows its struggling streets, it's book
store. where the lawyer and the doc
| tor and the others meet to play chess:
knows its poker games and fits blind
tiger" where bad whiskey Is sold by
| the negro shoe maker. This last is
all too true to be good. The old love
affairs that begin In childhood and
last, we'll, ever so long. only to be jos
| tied in their course and brought to
naught because of tale-telling and in
| termeddling OF village folks. All this
is true to life also, life of q small VIII
| lage. Such the love affair of David and
Columbia, who loved each other al
| ways. married not each other, but 9TH
| ers. and lived happily enough ever af-
| terward.
| John Cobbs who made praiseworthy
| efforts to win the heiress of the neigh
borhood. and. in failing. wed instead
| the capable clerk of his book store. Is
| a bit OF refreshing quaintness. He
| talks a lot OF slang that must be like
| the whiskey he ordered a special brand
| for it is most unfamiliar jargon.
I The little preachers wife, who knew
and saw that everybody else knew all
| the love and counting gossip of the viii
lage, is a true little bit of sketching,
lots of lovers read like the tinlxling
echoes of many Mrs. Medlock's. who
| collects a lot of rings from numerous
lovers and use a lot of diplomacy III
| wearing the right one at the right
time for the right man. AS she tells
| the story:
81 was sitting there playing the
plano with four big diamonds on my
finger, when the bell rang and I turned
round as the parlor door opened, and
there stood one of the men I was en-
gagged to. Well l whipped my left
hand under a fold of my dress-ln
came the other man-And pretty soon
one of the out-of-t town men came-and
those rings" How did you get rid
of them? About 10 o'clock my father
came in and stopped at the parlor door
and of course, the men all got up to
speak to him, when they did l jerked
the rings off and dropped them into
the piano. They made an awful noise
when they fell. and the men looked
mighty funny. Each one thought
| was trying to hide his ring from the