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Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
A Disguised Gardener

Dear Auntie:
My yard is not very large, to begin
with, and when you put a large pigeon
coop and an engine cab in 1t there is
not very much room for a garden, but
1 managed to squeeze a little garden
betWixt and between.
l borrowed a pick and nearly broke
by back picking.
/ planted popcorn, string beans, to-
matoes beets, lettuce, cabbage, chile
and radishes in small patches about
AKA feet.
The next day I found large dog
tracts all over the garden and few
dainty foot steps where it was dry, as
a cat does not like to get her feet wet.
I watered it every night and every
morning. 1 found that my dog had
walked all over it. After week of
patient work / was rewarded By lit
tie cracked earth and few sprouts.
When my corn came up 1t was so
frail that when a Santa Ana" came
up it blew 1t all down.
My beans We're doing fine, when one
Sunday friend of mammals came over
and brought two little babies about
three years old. While I was picking
some beans for her at one end. the
little tots were pulling up my beans
at the other end.
o. night my dog brought home
about six of his dog friends and made
a playground out of my garden.
l was so discouraged that 1 pulled up
what was left of my plants and made
a chicken yard out of it. With eggs at
the rate of so cents a dozen / get an
average of about 10 cents a day out of
seven chickens. No, not seven but
six, as one is only six weeks old.
VICTOR SYLVESTER,
21s Bloom street, Ann Street school.
Age IS. g..
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Dinner for Chickens

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I will be glad to tell you of my ex-
periences with a garden.
One bright morning I got up and
walked out in the fresh air. I thought
/ would make a garden. So l dug a
large square and then planted beans
to see if they would grow.
I watched them every day, and at
last l saw stalk with leaves coming
out.
Each day they grew higher and
higher, till one day when they were in
blossom our neighbours chickens came
over and ate the leaves, blossoms and
part of the stems. They soon died
after that planted a garden of
beans which blossomed and had beans
on them. / picked quite a few and
they died. 1 have now a garden with
radishes beans, turnips and many
other things.
/ hope l shall have better success
with this garden than I had with the
others. BESSIE McCORKELL.
Breed Street school, 5B grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Flower Garden

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 will tell you about my garden. I
first planted radishes, beans, cabbage,
beets and potatoes. / did not have d
flower in that garden.
A few days after, when mamma was
out feeding the chickens, she left the
gate open and all of the chickens got
out. They went right to my garden.
Mamma shut them up as quick as she
could She told me about 1t when 1
came from school. 1 went out In the
yard to see. The seeds were all
scratched out of the ground. / felt
bad, but l did not say anything.
l did not try any more to raise a
vegetable garden. got some slips of
flowers. 1 got roses. violets, carnations
lilies, pansies and a number of other
flowers. / had very good luck this
time. The violets are blooming and
the roses are in bud. My poinsettias
will soon be in bloom also. The rest all
look fine. TRIESTE M. PORTER.
Griffin Avenue school, Be- grade.
Age 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
To Plant the Seeds

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 thought I would write you a letter
to let you know how good a farmer
am. had the finest garden last
year. 1 won a big doll last year.
Before I plant my seeds l take a
cup and put some water and let my
seeds soak one night and 1 dig the
ground up with the shovel 1 take all
the Jumps of dirt and then l take a
rake and rake my garden good and
I make some little beds for my vege-
table seeds. First I plant my lettuce.
carrots, radish and pepper seeds. /
plant my lettuce just covered with
dirt Just take a sprinkler of water
and water them every morning and
whenever the sun is just going down.
Carrot seed you must be careful not to
plant too close. You will not have
big carrots. I always plant my carrot
seeds about three inches apart. Last
year / had the largest carrots. MY
teacher bought some of them from
me. Radishes you must plant about
one inch apart, My radish was white
radish. When mamma was sick l
brought mamma some home to her
and she said that they were good.
Peppers you must plant foot apart,
then you will have a good, large pep
per. BERTHA PR1OLEAU,
2414 Santa Fe avenue, Santa avenue
school, grade IA, age II.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

The neighbors' turkeys ate my plants
all off I did not get discouraged, but
remembered the old saying: IF at first
you don't succeed, try again" so l
went at 1t again the next year. This
time / planted peas Papa took my
peas to market and received 3 cents a
pound l had 900 pounds the first
time, and with my SO l bought wheel.
Since have had my wheel I have not
raised any vegetables. l got so inter-
ested in my wheel that l gave the
rest of the peas to papa.
ALBERT CRAYNE,
Bells, Cal, Los Angeles county. Bells
school, grade 8. Age IL.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

or three minutes before knew it. The
stove got full or gas and about the
fifth time lit 1t 1t gave a pop and the
blaze went clear up to the ceiling. I
managed to turn the gas out. When it
exploded it knocked all the lids and
everything off of the stove.
The dressmaker and the nurse ran
t see if l was dead; l was so still.
My big brother came up and fixed
the stove, and / made the pudding
anyhow and it lsted good. All the
explosion did to me was to SINCE my
eyebrows and hair. l still cook with
the gas stove and only one accident
has happened 1t was when Ethel put
grease in a frying pan and it caught
afire.
She ran and screamed Fire! Fire!"
All the people in the neighbo rhood ran
over here, and by that time ! had taken
the pan off and as soon as the fire went
out I poured water in it. Nothing else
happened. DELLA SUTHERLAND,
Santa Maria, Cal, Grammar school. IA
grade. Age IL.
l think you very thoughtful girl to
take the responsibility OF a house and
cooking.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Money in tomatoes

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Three years ago last spring 1 had a
little garden in a place about 30x12 feet
/ planted tomatoes and sweet pepper
plants mostly, with few radishes and
lettuce, but of course the latter crop
came and was soon gone. It was right
beside the pump house, which sheltered
the plants from the cold, also where
they could get lots of water. We had
a big 20-horsepower engine and after
1t was started I would tend to 1t.
could do everything toward starting it
heat the tube, oil it, etc, all but
putting the belt on and turning the
wheel only sold a few radishes and
not much lettuce, but when papa went
to peddling his things he would take
my tomotoes and peppers along. Then
there came the blight and took most
of his, also others tomatoes, but for
some cause scarcely a one of mine was
touched. Then 1 had good market
for them, for they were fine, and out
of 1t all together I made twenty-five
($25> dollars. Wasn't that pretty good
for such a small garden. I put the
money in a piano. I enjoy gardening
very much, but l have no time for 1t
now. I have all l can do with my
music and writing. When 1 feel like
doing anything, l always help mamma
ali I'm able.
MARGUERITE r. STANLEY,
Age IA. San Bernardino, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
'An Unfortunate Garden

Dear Aunt Laurie:
/ have not had much experience with
a garden, but l once planted a little
one. 1t was not a flower garden but a
little vegetable garden. 1 planted a few
beans and a little cabbage and lettuce.
The beans started growing, but one
morning l found them chewed up very
badly. I found a gopher hole in the
ground and set trap for it. but it did
not seem to work well. I found only
my cabbage chewed up and the small
amount of lettuce 1 had. never have
planted a garden since, but l helped
my mother plant a nice flower garden.
1t is doing fine and / like to water or
sprinkle it. 1 have not written many
letters to the Herald Junior, but am
now going to write oftener and try my
luck. Well, dear Aunt, will close for
this time. 1 wish you great success
with the Herald Junior.
LYDIA KEBERT.
Charlotte Avenue school, seventh
grade. Monrovia.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Profits for Fireworks
ar Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I want to tell you about the garden
my papa and I had last summer. We
were in partnership. Papa had a sign
made. 1t read. You and Me Co, Car
den Sass and SIGH" We put the sign
upon the shed In the back yard, and
some people who read 1t did not know
what it meant
We had lettuce, onions, radishes,
beets, kohlrabi and tomatoes. We sold
them to mamma just like the fruit men
do. The money we got we saved and
bought fireworks for the Fourth of
July. Some of the things we planted
did not grow. We tried pepper plants
twice, but both times they died. We
planted a package of egg plant seed in
a box. Not one of them came up. But
the other things l have told you about
grew very well.
1 think have told you enough about
my garden for this time.
like the Junior Herald very much.
MARJORIE ALLEN.
Jefferson Street school, grade g. Age 10.
A very nice letter, Marjorie. I am
always glad to hear from the littlest
Juniors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

except the beets and we didn't plant
any more the next time.
Oh, I must tell you about our corn
Just when the little ears were coming
our pony Dick came up to the fence
where we had it planted and pulled it
up by the roots. Mamma told me when
/ came home from school didn't say
anything, but went to work and plant
ed some more. EARTHA HIM,
1854 Darwin avenue.
Griffin Avenue school, grade B5 Age TO-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
About five years ago, when we first
moved out here in the country, l
thought would try my luck in raising
flowers. / marked off a piece of land
about twenty feet square and after the
first rain of the season dug and raked
the ground well. Then I planted seven
rows of sweetpea seed. l watered them
daily for ten days. when l saw the
small plants just coming through the
ground.
One day was not at home to tend
to my flowers, and to my great disap-
pointment the chickens ate the tender
little plants off. But I was not dis
couraged, so next year L planted some
carnation slips. had good luck with
these and in less than two months l
had quite a garden. I didn't sell my
flowers, as I had only a few, but l gave
them away to show people what a sue
cess 1 made at Horticulture, at the same
time telling them my first experience
with a garden. FAY CRAYNE.
Whittier high school. Age a.
Bells, Los Angeles county.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Towser Interferes
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
want to tell you of a garden I had.
1t was at the side Of my house. 1t
was just a square little garden. 1
made little path just big enough for
my feet to at in nicely right in the
middle One half of the garden was
beans. lettuce and other vegetables,
and on the other side were flowers of
many kinds. Every evening when
got home from school / would water 1t,
and after a while 1t grew nicely.
My beans were tied up on strings TO
help them to climb up the side of the
house. Pretty soon / could pick the
flowers, for 1 had planted them by
slips and my vegetables by seeds. My
little dog did not like the garden. He
would scratch up all my seeds, until
I came out and made him stop. If
/ did not whip him he would do 1t
again. We did not live in that house
long enough for me to see how my
things grew, and I was not there to
watch 1t, and they all died.
My little dogs name is Towser. 1t
is hard to keep him off, as he likes to
scratch up the loose dirt.
RETA PEARDON,
1921 Temple street, Los Angeles.
Temple Street school, class IA Age If.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
VeaetabIes and blowers

Dear Aunt Laurie:
/ will tell you about my garden
have at home. I have ten different
kinds of roses blooming now and lilies,
violets, geraniums. carnations, lilacs
flags, Martha Washington geraniums
and pansies. This is my garden in
flowers.
There is a very nice walnut tree
growing up by my flower garden. and
it makes it look very nice indeed.
My little friend and / made a garden
once and our playhouse as about
ten feet from it. We had radishes,
turnips, beets beans. carrots. corn, let
tuce and onions. They all grew nicely
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
Chickens Like Gardens

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I am afraid that as farmer I would
never make a very great success, be-
cause luck goes against me. I do not
know what has been the cause of my
many failures. Maybe old seeds, poor
soil or more probably our chickens.
The seeds were planted late in the
evening because [ could not wait till
morning. After they were up l inn
agined that the plants would grow
inches every day. OF course l was
mistaken, for I found out they grew
the other way when one morning l
looked out of my window and saw that
something had eaten them all. Prob
ably it was the birds. That was my
first experience. Since then I have had
gardens many times, but few success
full ones One time l planted radishes,
and pulled them all up one day to see
if they were big enough to eat. Once l
raised tuTnips, and they were fine. All
l had for weeks was turnips, turnips,
turnips. / never grew turnips again.
NY last garden was an entire failure on
account of the chickens.
JOSEPH L. JERNEGAN,
Monrovia, Cal
Monrovia high school, ninth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22

at home he would water them for me.
One day he came over to my mouse
and was making a bed for my vege-
tables. and when 1 had that done ne
helped me plant some vegetables.
One day he came over to my house
to help me pour water on my garden
and the old pump broke. We bad TO
get the water from his house to water
the garden with. The next day we
had to fix the pump so that l could
water the garden.
LAURENCE BERL1BR.
Griffen Avenue school, B5. Age H.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
The Water Problem

Dear Aunt Laurie:
While we were out in the country
made a garden in the side yard. The
soil was so hard that 1 had to pour
water in it to make it soft so that
1 could spade it up. After long while
l planted some beans, beets. lettuce,
onions, cabbage and carrots. / had to
pour water on them every night and
morning that I was there. A little
boy named Edward Alice always helped
me every night. When we were not
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
A Lover of Flowers

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 am going to tell you what l did in
my garden this year. I didn't have
very good luck this time. 1 am going
to try very. very hard next year to
have a garden and nice flower bed
when we move into our new house on
Fair Oaks. / am very fond of flowers.
/ am so fond of them that l hardly
know which flowers l like best. hope
l can have a pansy bed. My sister
Margery says she likes carnations gest
of all flowers. My sister Margery is
Ii years old, and am 9 years old.
Margery is going to raise chickens, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
A Kitchen Experience

Dear Auntie Laurie:
AS I have not had much experience
in gardens / will write of my expert
ence with the gas stove.
Mamma works at the store, and as
1 am the oldest girl Ihave to stay
home.
One day I thought I would make g.
cornstarch pudding. I had the milk
on cooking; put the eggs and sugar
in a dish on the back of the stove and
the cornstarch in cup on the stove.
The fire would go out and be out two
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
WRITERS, CONTEST

Two prizes will be given in this each week.
One dollar for the best original paper submitted by
gees girl boy and dollar for the best paper submitted by the
er or boy living outside the city limits of Los Angeles
Papers be from $50 to $50 words length
side OF the paper only and with margins top side of
paper.
All contributions be signed with address,
name of school and grade
Papers for this competition must reach this office later than
Saturday afternoon, November g.
Topic: 1.-THE Heroic Person Have Ever Heard About
or Seen"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
sweet Peas and carnatI0ns

Monrovia high school, ninth grade
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.

The Yankees have won another game! Ban John
son was sitting with Frank Farrell yesterday to try
TO what allied the Hghlanders, but after the
Elberfeld clan had pounded Dineen and Graham
for seven runs in the fourth inning he decided to
reserve his sympathy for McAleer and the ex-
Yankees on his nine from st. Louis, who had fully
expected climb back into first place at the ex-
pense of the men who had not won q game from
the Browns before this season. The score was 10
to / Danny Hoffman. old New Yorker, breaking
the line of goose eggs for his side with a rafting
home run in the ninth inning.
Dannys homer only turn about. after all. for
Niles. who came here from st. Louis. had proved
his right to head the batting order in the first in
ming. when he drove one of Dineen's choice curves
far over Hoffrar's head for circuit OF the bases.
That started the rather slim crowd TO roaring for
their former idols. and the Yankees, playing with
snap and precision and hitting fercely when hlts
meant runs, gave the fans enough throughout the
game TO keep them busy roofing
Chesbro was in the box for the local team, and
showed as he has done many times this season.
that he is almost If not quite good as in his
great season of 1905. when he helped the Yankees
give Boston such hard fight for the pennanI
He was cool and steady with men on bases' ana
altogether gave an exhloluon OF pi'chlhs ihos' eh
couraging TO the crowd.
HemphiIl started the fourth inning with single.
hu+ Delehanty forced him. Ball tore down to hrst
so fast that he beat the throw of his bunt' ana
Delehanty scampered home when hlelnoW regis
tered a slow single. Chesbro wanted TO MAKE SUI o
y, his game and drove Ball home with slashlng
.i,e over third base and Mr.. McAleer decided
4bst Dneen needed q rest, two runs being IN on
foo,r hits and Graham was led forth.
Niles let Hoffman have fly, but Conroy "alteo
for pass and filled the bases Moriar1ty ~hlppeu
single to right, and both Keno" anu Cnoeoio
l,hase slammed the ball hard but high to
II.-t,eI who dropped it, and Conroy scored the
at+b run of the inning Hemphill a distinctly use
tnI citizen. came up again, saw Moriarity on sec
ord and chased him home with his second MT Vi
the inning and third of the game Deie'
singled to right and Chase scored put Dei ""s Nv
aaar N roach second and was caught on the way.
The score follows:
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
aceboU * Golf x Aufomobilin6 X Lad
FIVE TEAMS TIED NOW
BUFFALO CAR WRECKED.
accident an Kingston Results in
Penalisation for Premier.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Albany, July 16.-One more team went out of the
perfect class In the Glidoen to-day, when
the Premier car OF the second Buffalo team met
with an accident. The was being driven along
at fast pace through Kingston. where there is
hairpin turn and the driver. Joe Moore. flew past
it, crowd the corner shouted to him and
waved TO him to turn back. He thought the street
was wide enough to swing around, but when ne
tried it he going too fast TO clear the side
walk and bumped into it. bending the steering
knuckle
1t was late when the Premier got to Albany. for
it had to slowly the rest of the way. Thls
leaves only five of the ten teams with perfect
scores now. The five left are the Buffalo. Roch-
ester Columbus. Chicago and Boston There are
only five runabouts left out of fourteen In the
Hover contest. The run is now in its last haif
days having been spent on the road and
so of the l. 200 miles covered.
was surprising that there were no serious acci-
dents to-day The route picked out, while IT was
a delightful one to tour over when going at rea-
sonable speed was bad for racing, yet that
what the drivers did to get here from Milford
in eight hours fifteen minutes There was de-
tour that took the half dozen miles out OF
the regular route and instead of going 15S they
travelled 164 miles.
The roads perfect the greater part of the
way. and speeding induged in. Around curves
flew the cars, and tonight there were number OF
stories exchanged of narrow escapes when cars met
other vehicles coming toward them or going in the
other direction. 1t was a OF shutting off the
power quickly and applying the foot and emergency
brakes in hurry.
The road for miles to-day followed the Hudson
River, and there a splendid view of the boats
plying up and down along the stream. Some of the
cars had bits of racing with the big boats, but as
the steamers travelled straight line and the
had TO deviate going sometimes five miles to the
one or two of the steamers, the latter had the bet
Of H.
schedule It viii be 194 miles to Boston. The
schedule for this is hours Some of the
drivers grumbling tonight when they heard
the schedule. 1t means average of twenty miles
hour, and there some places where they
will have slow up for speed laws and narrow
roads, it will cause fast driving between
Springfield and Boston to make up. There is also
the possibility of arrest for speeding in of the
towns And If any of the drivers arrested the
law says they cannot drive in the state
again. In that case they could take their
out Monday morning and this is worrying them
than any fine.
officials Of the Bay State Club of Boston.
with invitations tonight for the entertainment
planned for the motorists during their two days
stay in the Hub
New-York tribune., 1908-07-17
TELLS OF GRAND PRI1.
Louis Strdng Arrested Only Fire
Times U1hHe an France.

Iouis strang driver OF the Thomas car, the
only American machine in the Grand PIX race
in France on July :, arrived home yesterday on
the Deutschland, of the Hamburg American Line.
His two sisters Miss Louise Alexander his hancee
and large number of friends were at the DOCK
at $40 O'Clock when the boat made her LANDING
and Strang received a roustng welcome
"Of course. Home. Sweet Home sounds sweet
to me-" said Strang, as he left the sangpianh-
INV treatment abroad extremely cordial
haven't so much as a kick against the
French police for arrestfng me five times. when
running about eleven miles an hour was sr-
rested each time the course while driving a
touring car as we not allowed to run our
racing cars over it until the day OF the big con-
test OF course. this is second experience IN
+bs Grand Prix race having ridden with Walter
Christie in previous one
"As to the race itself. there is little for me to
say that 1 did not mention in my signed special
csbls message to The New-York Tribune after
the race AS said in that dispatch. the car L
drove was strictly a stock car, all parts of which
are interchangeable with any 60-hOrsepower Thon1-
as car. The machine did probably all that could
be expected of a of such type 1t must ne
considered that 1t running against powerfully
built racing cars
"T+ seen,s surprising to me that the American
manufacturers do not go into the building of rae
ing cars for such contests more heavily Inc
American is popular in France and quite
number Of the American touring cars can be seen
there.
Before tho race the speed shaft of my car was
bent and I was compelled to start with two
sneeds working and reverse The trouble that
put me out of the race, however, came IN the
fifth round. after I had driven the car a distance
of 235 miles. The gas tank began to leak so badly
that II ran dry before L could make a circuit Of
the course. This caused by my running on
the road to avoid hitting a stalled
THE course in frightful condition. owing
to the small car race the previous day, which
caused the tar crust to crumbe into dust, which
almost blinded OF the drivers Many OF the
we'll known drivers came TO grief early in the
race among them being Lancia and NaZzaro. in
the first round. I many as six overturned
cars on the course.
.'Hemery was deserving OF particular credit for
finishing second, for in the last half of the race
he drove his with one Of the glasses In his
goggles broken. tt seemed If all France turned
out to see struggle. for fully one million per-
sons were about the course"