Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
AS SEEN By a 5AZZLAHE W1Iz4N

TN THE northeastern part of the
city. and almost touching the foot
hills, there is garden that people
might do well to initiate, and at
the same time con a few lessons in
thrift, economy and sanitation.
IT is a rear garden. and certainly a
Erlze-Wlnner happy nook where
fruit, vegetables, flowers. chickens and
ducks flourish, and ii is not so very
large, either; but every foot Is utilized
ana IN the most pleasing and artistic
manner. Following a path around the
SIDE OF the house and frlnged with
gorgeous poppieh, dahlias, and asters.
you enter little gate and find YOUR
ser stepping upon velvet green lawn,
WIN picture after picture spreading
OUT before you, and calling forth ex-
presslons of delight and admiration.
III Is far and above the average hack
garden, which after the kitchen work
chus Tor the day, Is shut off, as
thouSh there We're nothing worth see
ing IN it, while the family flock To the
'front.' porch on the other hand. when
all the front II noisy with street cars
ana street children, It is like a favorite
room where one retires because ii is
coy, silent, restful, sheltered We'll.
you ma yourself upon the lawn. with
beautiful tall pink and white lilIies
sweet and quiet welcome A few
steps further. and you're resting your
soul IN the vine-covered summer house
with varicolored morning glories neep.
ing Wrought. 1t is an ample retreat.
IurnlShed WIN easy chairs, bench,
sewing table, etc. Out of here. across
Ine lawn you 20 passing Il line of
snowy clothes, To look at the chicken
house-a thing to marvel at, so i'm
inaccurate is II, ana built of red
shingles and white woodwork. And
you wonder why all chicken coops
cannot be Ike that, instead of the
unslghtlv affairs you know. and have
known, with ever tho desire to dec
from them. Next, You are being faced
by q stately stand of double mink and
Whlte hollyhocks, behind which is an
other gate, snowy white; through il
you pass, and Oh!-a riot of summer
movers with the towering sunfower
49,. LOT packsfound, to the right of YOU
10 the Ieit, n inc healthy peach free
all screened about. and beneath which
Iep9ses a bunch of happy, fat. white
ducks. In front of you, rows of crisp
lettuce, yellow beans. tomatoes. and
small fruits, while directly against the
hlgh back fence, like tall scntinels
guarding the whole, grows the corn
For after all the true pleasures of
nome are not without but within. n
nome happy In books ana music" and
let us add the rear garden and call that
within also. Where one may find sweet
retirement and variety of sense and
reason without stirring from his ham
ln"tN-thc tender green of tho spring.
the llch foliage of summer and the
glorious tinls or autumn. not to men
tlon The rare glmpses of mountains. A
retreat whore one Is far more ant to
hotlre me sky a part of creation where
lher" an" resting places for mind ana
eye and for our thoughts, angel robes
IN the clouds and happy smiling faces
GOLDEN ROD.
From mo- well kept garden bed
boih she lift her graceful head;
liolden-huod Is she, and wild
Natures hayward Gypsy child.
Her bright sprays
Softly buZc
from the wind blown woodland ways"
well known professor In one of our
INST and foremost eastern colleges
visited this city and vicinity last sum-
ner ne Is solourning I'm Greece and
nay this season. and from Rome he
writes 10 d friend;
Your letter reached me In pHtras.
Greece, Just before | left for Olympia
where FOR so long tho gcat and sacred
games IN honor of the Olymplan Ions
were held. on, II was refreshing I'm tho
presence Of grey antiquity and Of SO
many long dead To be called back to
that happy visit in the far west whore
everybody Is So very much alive II IL
a charming picture for tho mind 10
dwell upon-that restful nook among
tho mountains. and / would gladly ex-
change trip To 81. Peters tho Forum,
or any OF the other places ! shall visit
often during the coming week, for Just
one glimpse of II.
~ had two yery nuarestug oN.
porIcnces IN Greece. The first when |