The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

she left ont the Jewsi And everybody knows they were first and kept the re- cords and the Commandments for all the rest of us. Why. I think 1t was a shame to treat my peoples. corn flow CTS and larkspur that. way! When they are the brightest of all the How CTS and are elf-seeding-once plant ed. always planted: no trouble to raise. and you can't down them. They will monopolize a garden. just like the Jews did commerce.; they 'ain't no trou- ble.' cause they stay out all winter and you can't kill them. I've filled out hundreds of copies of Lovey Mary that have been sent to me, my writing about the Jews on the fly leaves: but notice that the last edition of them don't begin to have as many fly leaves as the first. Wonder why? Guess they think I'm meddlin'.
 Fame . Godsend.
 = "Tiow did you feel, Aunt Tiny. when you found you were fanous?" said I.
 well. I thought 1t was God send!"
 I'm not like hear tell of Mrs. wiggs I don't shut the door in any body's face and tell them to go about their business and let me tend to mine If the real Mrs. Wiggs had as much sense as the Mrs. Wiggs in the book, why, she would have made the best of her opportunity, too.
 Why. don't you suppose If I'd been Mrs, Wiggs, and my house didn't have no roof made out of tin cans. would have put a roof of tin cans on it, and had a picture made of the house, and me a-standing in the door. and sold them for 25 cents apiece. just as l am doing with my house and garden! l tell you, I've taught school for forty years. and I'm getting old now, and Mor b,iS nothing short of a Godsend to me! It was just when I owed $10o taxes and the house leaked and my nephew took sick, and was getting too old to teach any longer. and thought I would never get out of debt again. But pretty soon all these people up at the sanftariums that came here for rheumatism com menced coming down here just to see the garden of Lovey Mary. and I'd give them a bouquet and they'd give me | dime or a quarter, sand then I had 1000 pictures taken of myself and sold them for '25 cents apiece. and now I'm max | ing quilts-straddle bug quilts. You see, I ain't all mud-turtle. digging In the ground forever. You'd be surpris- | ed how many I sell.'
 TeIIs About Her Garden. The next day the sun shone bright ly and the day was clear and cool. so | I paid my second visit to Aunt Tiny. as she had promised to show me the garden, and to tell me all about the classification of the flowers, and why she had named them for the denomina- tions. So. throwing an old shawl over her head, Aunt Tiny led me through the back porch with its walls adorned with discarded paper ice cream boxes.
 why. Aunt Tiny, you must be very fond of ice cream said I.
 I 'rNo; I'm not so fond of ice cream, but I keep my flower seeds in those boxes and mark each box so they dry out and never get mixed.
 Now. as I'm Methodist" said she 1 "Ill show you them first. Here they are. Amt they pretty?" pointing to the bright red geraniums.' which she | called the leaders of the Methodists l and there are some more Methodists over there." pointing to the perennial phlox.
 "The roses are not blooming now but they are Methodists. too. All oi these want rich soil and plenty Of sun shine, not much water, and don't wan' to be oyershadowed. They will all have the black rot sure if they get too much water. They don't stor blooming, but go on all season. grow ing in grace. They surely believe Tn the perseverance of the saints. They are 'ubiquitouss' Now let me tell you l about that WOrQ. l nedru II useu ohNe about these flowers, and for all my for ty years school teaching. I had to run and get a dictionary to see what it meant But guess you know it means l everywhere, and you know that's one good thing about the Methodists.
 ''The Presbyterians are not bloomins now. I call that big white June lily a Presbyterian because it Is >nrm m belief and never changes color or type The wild columbine, now our national flower, Is Presbyfer1an. too. Ii doesn't jump around after isms' or mix with other coigmbines,' but roots out | all, ,tthe others in the mess All CO., r iurnbines except tiiis one have to have a net around them to keep from mix, ing. See those big red dahlias and that bunch of hoilyhocks. and the Rose of sharon by the fence? I call them catholics because they think their noses are a little nearer Heaven than any body else's. And. worst of all. they take up a sight of room. But for years they kept the garden bright when