Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-15


menace to innocent sufferers if ne
elected too long-unless exposed by
the searchlight of publicity. He also
hoped that We would aid in the war
against tuberculosis, and added that
he could find plenty for us to do, il
he could only take time to think
them out, which he would be glad to
do. He urged the need of medical
inspection of school children, and of
all the objects to attain this would
seem one of the highest.
We must encourage pure food
laws, and ! wish that our clubs
would see to it that Prof. Laid is
upheld in his splendid crusade which
has brought him into national prom
inence, by letters from us endorsing
and supporting every step he has TAX
en-, insuring for us a better quality
of food, barring from the state pois-
onous authorizations, and perhaps
even OF putting some of us on a basis
of palmer living and higher think
ing. Listeni-In Vienna several
thousand club women have organized
for the express purpose of fighting
the food trusts, bent upon increasing
the cost of living" Frau Gisela Ur-
ban, prominent in the social world,
is president, and she says they will
find out the cost of manufacture of
food stuffs and legitimate profits;
then have the list posted, under au-
thority, in public places, and house
wives will pay so much, and no
more Are they more progressive
than we, that we allow the trusts to
devour us? And, don't you think
that we could influence some of our
progressive grocers to prohibit so
much unnecessary handling of food,
la natural? Miniature 'shovel and
tongs" might be our recommends
ton. Shouldn't we declare for clean
ly service? Package goods are best.
We do not then get coal oil flavor
with crackers or soapy cheese, as ono
magazine puts it.
And now, come with me into the
Elysian Fields, and / will tell you
some of my secrets. Let us leave dull
care behind for a little while, and
court the magic word
Beautify! Let us join the happy
folk who love to watch things
grow And make this as one of the
Garden Cities SO famous in England,
Germany, France. We may plant
hardy vines to illumine old wood
sheds and ugly back fences, if we
needs must have them-of woodbine,
morning glory, wild cucumber, the
Jackman clematis, wistaria or the
Dorothy Perkins climbing rose. Any
of these are beautiful, some of them
flower bearing. While velvety
lawns are favored for the fronts of
homes can we not find some some
where for-and be old-fashioned
enough to plant flower beds and those
precious shrubs that we used to have
at home-back somewhere? T am
hungry when June comes for a flow,
er-scented garden, and many would
pay admittance into such an one, per-
fumed with waxen syringias, and,
honeysuckle climbing over a trellis,
with great pink blossoms lined with
richest yellow. Lilac bushes!
shall nayor foroof r-bar
was nearly grown, in a hedge of
them so tall that I could not reach
the great nodding blossoms except by
climbing the high board fence that
they screened. Years before, when a
tiny girl, my mother had given me a
packet of seeds, told me how to SOW
them-and they were mine! If it
handn't been for me-they never
would have been there-I never for
got that! My very own! And can't
we have more roses? Tea roses,
great double pink ones? And the
yellow rambler, which it is claimed
is almost immune from pests and
thugs! Beds and beds of mignon-
cite and marigolds and asters and
dahlias, bachelors buttons, gerani-
UNI, phlox and hollyhocks, lilies of
the valley and columbines? Then
we could experiment with some of
the trees that live exalted in our
memories, which make the Falls of
Michigan and Berkshire Hills as near
Paradise as We can hope to reach up
on earth. Don't you remember how
Emerson speaks so affectionately of
autumn leaves as Glove letters?"
They are brilliant and tender, as they
come floating down, and are they not
associated everywhere with song and
story? Then, if we care for them,
we must plant maple and beech, and
elm and birch-with it's living green
against the delicate bark-with
dash of evergreens-sp spruce and ced-
ar and arbor vitae Oh, no, they
won't grow, so they tell us. But
arn't we raising corn?
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