Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

! Ieei Ike seeing people. some sociable
person Is sure 10 he at hand
want a home some time. yes-but not
4 makeshlft one. When | can afford the
hllid that VIII satisfy me, and that can
| ENJOY without strain or disproDortionate
effort. will build it. Until then how
ever, am content TO cast anchor in Il
boarding house.
An Autograph Cook Book.
\ gift suitable to am CINE of the year
original, home made, one that will hiring
JOY TO any housewives heart. surely mis-
Is thlng TO be desired Have Won ever
.nought of making an autograph cook
book! Ii only requires a little care and
patience few sheets of note paper
ana stamps expended (yoHr friends will
90 the rest 10 have a cook book filed
king.
First make list of your intimate
friends. Those noted for their GOOD
cooking and housewifery virtues of
course should head the list Write 70
each OF then. a personal note asking them
to write out and send to You their in.
Voflte recipe. In each note enclose a
stamped envelope with a sheet of paper
OF uniform size for the written recipe
Then wait.
Presently in will come whole focks of
Whlte envelopes each enclosing the re-
cipe which is the particular pride of the
particular housewife who donates it. And
before long what collection you will
have. When all the names have been
accounted for, you must get to worz and
bind the sheets into book. Y ellum
makes good cover, and if n orr serv-
lceabe one is desired. ooze lee he pur-
chased at Il leather shop. may l,e ed.
Red leather, lettered in gold or b'ack.
nj h. S,.s4 "a.
recipient should be added in one corner.
just see what delight this gift will wing.
and you will, ] am sure. feel amply re-
paid.-Ruth III. Fuller in Woman's
Home Companion.
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The Longest Sprays of Red Berries.
Probably the longest red-berried
sprays suitable for cutting are furnished
by the fire thorn (Pyracantha coccinea)
which gets its name from the fact that
it looks like a hawthorn tree on fire
Leonard Barron tells me that he used
to cut sprays of it 3 to 6 feet long in
England. where it was customary to COW
er the plants with netting to keep the
birds from devouring the berries, which
are particularly charming for Christmas
decoration.
There IS the greatest difference of
opinion as to what genus this plant
should be placed in, and to this day you
will lind it advertised under cotoneaster.
mespiius and crataegus. From the two
genera last named pyracantha differs in
having two fertile styles instead of one;
and from cotoneaster in having five
styles and spiny branches, instead of
two to five styles and no spines.
The important fact to the gardener is
that the fire thorn is the only evergreen
thorn and the only one whose red ber-
RES remain attractive all winter. To pay
for this its fruits are smaller than those
of its nearest rivals Ghe cockspur and
Washington thorn, being only a fifth of
an inch in diameter. Also it is very sub
ject to San Jose scale and blight. 1t is
hardy as far north as Massachusetts and
there are some we'll berried hedges of it
at Newport, but one can hardly expect
il to be both evergreen and abundantly
berried much north of Philadelphia and
even there it bronzes in winter. 1t is
the cheapest tall hedge for winter show
in the middle states, where it attains
six feet, but in the south it may event
ually reach twenty feet. North of New
York | should grow it as a wall plant
and throw mosquito netting over the
whole thing if the birds threatened to
spoil the display. Unlike most hardy
evergreens this plant prefers full sun
shine
The best form of it for the north is
the variety Lalandi, because it is harder
more vigorous and has larger berries
about the size of a pea. The color, how
ever. is orange read, instead of scarlet
Both forms may require spraying, as the
San Jose scale is particularly fond of
the rose family, to which belong nearly
all our hardy fruits and many of our
most treasured ornamental shrubs
Country Life.
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The Time of the Singing of Birds.
The winter is past; the rain is over
and gone: the flowers appear; the time
of the singing of birds is come and the
voice of the turtle is heard in our land =
Thus wrote one of earth's mighty kings
centuries ago. rejoicing in the spring
time awakening of nature, and thus suy
we as we listen TO the first song of the
robin and watch the opening of The
catkinS and reve in the soft warm sun
'call of the wild" We are weary of
the limitations imposed by four walls
We have need of the grasses and flow
ers and birds, the bursting leaf buds on
the trees, the smell of the upturned sod.
We long for freedom unlimited, for long
walks through country lanes watching
the silent resistless forces OF their tre-
mendous work. as though perhaps we
might learn something of natures secret
methods in these early hours and days
and weeks of her aroused activity. We
have watched and felt as well, her Wig
orous fashion OF sweeping away unde
sirable accumulations. The north wind
and the south, the west wind and the
east, have been at play with the debris
of winters boarding and now April's
showers will gently call forth the vio-
lets. the spring beauties and the dainty
anemones or wind flowers, for the sight
of which we long.
The robins are here, so are the blue
birds and the blackbirds. Perhaps some
of you who are nearer to natures heart
than we who are housed in large cities
have heard the thrilling call of the
meadowlark, with its exquisite meledious
sweetness, or the weird strange cry of
the mourning dove as though the sor-
rows of the world were pressing too
close upon its tiny form.
Are you watching this great pageant
with eyes and ears alert to see and hear
the wondrous sights and sounds of this
marvellous embodiment? Are you pre-
pared with opera or field glasses to fol-
low the spring migrants in their tiightE
Have you a magnifying glass for do
al 10 of no