The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-07

High Noon.
 High noon it is-now, let me see!-1
 think at 2 p. m.
 She said she'd look for me. This day
 is certainly a gem!
 The sky oerhead's an ocean blue-one
 cloud-barque cross it scuds! hint of green has touched the
 leaves, slow swelling are the
 buds.
 o laggard time, o snail-like hands that
 travel round the face
 Of tower-clock-move on, move on,
 heart of mine set pace!-- Oh. pshaw! I'm finding fault. cen
 while I'm glad enough to yelp! For Nelrs to make her flower-beds.
 and I-why. I'm to help.
 Afternoon.
 At last. at last, sun-bonneted and
 gloved, with cheeks agiow, Nell queens the flower-plot-to-be
 with garden rake and hoe; Aud while she's delving fin the loam
 I'm managing to say
 A few things rather to the point
 and getting in her wayi But Nell keeps busily engaged (though not as yet to Tne)
 And while she listeiHs we'll enough, won't quite say "yes," you see. Yet shall prize this afternoon all af-
 ternoons above.
 For Nelrs been making flower-beds,
 ana I've been 4OVG1 The Rustic in Town Topics.
 Not every one has e flower garden, but every one who spends even a part of the summer in the country has the freedom of the roadsldes, pasture mead ow, and woods: the wild gardens which belong to every man and no man, where every one is free to gather, and no one to forbid. Of course 1t Is the courtesy and custom that this freedom extends to the fields and woods, and perhaps the unaclSn ow1edged obligation enhances the privilege of leaving the long, narrow roadside f1ower-beds, and looking for rarer and more effective things along fences and hedges. and in shadowed and solitary places.
 If one has acquired the habit of wild flower gathering. and the knowledge of what to gather and how to bring her gleanings safely homo; and the decorative effect to be gotten from them, she has reached a possibility of great satisfaction and everyday happi- ness-Canda n Wheeler, in the May Atlantic.
 Sunshine keeps tho canal and mis- sion boats supplied with reading mat ter. Wherever they go they carry books to distribute. One branch sends barrels of magazines for the stokers Of the Cunard Line. The reading-table at the Golden Hour Home is kept supplied SO that the girls may have the books to enjoy and carry home if they wish. Through the Brooklyn Navy Yard the marines are supplied with magazines and books. Boxes with hinged covers are filled and placed on board every outgoing vessel. These books are ex- changed in foreign ports with the box es on board other vessels that left on their long cruises at earlier dates. In this way Sunshine is maintaining a circulating library on the high seas' Some months ago there arrived in the office of The Bobbs-Merrlll Com pany a perfectly harmless looking manuscript purporting to be by one "A. A. Winter" It was at once taken for granted that "A. A. Winter" was a man. Then happened an extraordinary thing in the history of the office; ev- erv one of the editorial readers waxed antnusiastic over the story. Also, ev- cry one of them detected in 1t strong masculine traits and quite as matter of course referred to the author as "he." Not till the time came to sign A contract did the publishers discover that A. A. stood for "Alice Ames." Mrs. Winter is very much a woman. She Is the daughter of the Rev Charles G. Ames, the distinguished Boston divine. After taking two degrees at Welles- lev College, she began to study art in Philadelphia, but i'll health sent her out to British Columbia, where she met her husband. She is now promi- nent in the social and philanthropic ctrcIes of Minneapolis, being President of the Free Kindergarten Association. The Prize to the Hardy is illustrated bv Mrs. winters brother-fn-law, R. M. Crosby, of the editorial staff of Life.