Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-16
IMPROVE YOUR PREMISES
And Thus Beautify And Make
More Attractive the Home
And City.

the attention to gardening, cleanins
and beautifying your home surround
ings, and the excellent advice con
tanned in the following item takeI
from the Sheboygan Journal, il
worthy of the space we give it, anC
the careful consideration of all oul
readers. The article in question, is.
in full, as follows:
Don't forget that beautifying jol
| for your own premises.
Spring is here While the interior
of homes are sure to receive atten
tion the yards should not be over
looked.
Let there be liberal use of hose
and water, accompanied by a thor
ough massage of the ground with
rakes; hose and trowels, and even
fingers if necessary to remove the
offending weeds.
Paint will not be out of place pro.
vided the cosmetic is literally ap
piled to houses, roofs, fences and
barns. If you keep chickens, be sure
that their apartments are painted out
side and whitewaShed in-but don't
keep them in town to run at large.
Be sure and get rid of the rubbish
heap. For yard food, to take out
the wrinkles and hillocks and bumps
that make yard look old before its
time, try grass and flower seeds. A
yard does not become beautiful in
a day. 1t takes time, patience, eter-
nal vigilance and lots of hard work.
But the result will pay up big divi-
dends in the summer months, say
about July, and August when John
and the kids will stay at home and
play in their own yards instead of
trailing off to the country.
Patience, plenty of water, q fair
soil and good grass seed applied to a
yard will in time prove the best cure
for sore eyes you ever saw advocated
in your life. If you add TO the mix
ture flower beds, say sweet peas along
the side of the fence masturtiums and
asters close to the house and sweet
alyssum and mignonette and pansies
bordering the walk-some walks
the cure will reach clear inside of
you and dispel the malady folks call
the blues. And don't forget a dull
leaved, heavy scented heliotrope plant
of the sun. If you have had a few
roSebuSheS to start on, your garden
can be glory, and it will. Morning
glories, marigolds and zinnias will
grow any place almost. Even coal
dust soil can't kill these CHEEKY plants.
And there is the wild cucumber
These vines make admirable screens
for the back porch or the side window
if the neighbOr's house is too close.
If you can't have garden, try win
dow boxes Have them made of wood
or zinc and attached firmly to your
windows. They will be wonderful
delight throughout the summer If
the porch roof is handily under your
windows or the roof of the ell to the
house, try roof garden. 1t doesn't
matter much where you make your
garden so long as you have one. The
garden is to the summer time as
The Christmas tree is of Yule tide,
the turkey of Thanksgiving, the
firecracker of the Fourth. Don't
forget it. 1t is the inalienable
right of every front and back porch
to have some kind of a garden and
some variety of cultivation in the
garden i'm the summer months.
diseases and worms and are very un-
slightly. They offend the eye. Any
thing that is offensive to the eye is
displeasing to every sense that a man
woman or child has. In infinity there
is the only beauty, and we will never
know true religion, never approach
true perfection nor the highest moral
ity till we eliminate the ugly and the
hideous and replace them with the
beautiful and the inspiring.
f. Boynaskl has removed his family
here from Grand Rapids and will
occupy the second floor of the Johnson
block, recently purchased by him, as
a fiat. In the course of few weeks
he expects to occupy the entire build
ing, having served notice on the other
tenants to vacate-Stevens Point
Journal.