Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Widow Finishes Work That Death
Prevented Landscape Gardener
From Accomplishing.

Mrs Anna Anschutz. a slender
young woman. working all day long
in her garden on Mead avenue as a
man works, with spade and hoe and
heavy shears, is inspired to such I'M
usual labor by the thought that her
husband, who is dead, wills her to
do II.
"Of course / could get rid of this
place and make my living much
easier" she said yesterday to a Sun
day American reporter. But it was
Carls garden. He made it, loved 1t
| and gave IL to me. Always II seems
that he is at my back or looking out
the window and telling me about one
thing or another.
1T seems that he is saying:
Girl. you must work in the green
house to-day,' or Girl, the bed yonder
must be worked
THE other night l dreamed that
| he came TO me and said: Girl, you'll
never get ready by September You
see, II was his desire to set the place
in order by September l."
Husband Died Last June.
So Mrs. Absolute puts on boys
shoes and a large apron every day,
and works in the greenhouses and
| the gardens which her husband,
well known landscape gardener, es-
tablished several years ago. He died
in June and she took up his work
Immediately.
The garden entails a large amount
of work Two greenhouses full of
ferns and potted plants must be
cared for. besides dozens of beds and
plants of evergreens, arbor vitae, box
wood. privet, a rose garden, bulbs and
| vegetables. Yet Mrs. Absolute works
II all alone, and does the most aTdu
Gus kind of work.
The Sunday American man, going
to her home near Decatur. found her
In a little hollow back of the house
She was digging a trench. showing
the heavy spade into the earth with
her foot and upturning the soil with
the precision and good form of an
| ordinary laborer.
Helped Husband When Alive.
When she looked up at her WIS.,
itor she revealed herself as a rather
prepossessing young woman. light
haired and blue-eyed, and slender as
a girl. Not bit Of embarrassment
was evident as she wiped her mud
stained hands on her apron and came
forward to talk about her work and
her garden. She must have been a
frank and attractive girl. Now she
had become very capable and un
| usual woman.
She told how her husband had es-
tablished the garden and how he, an
expert landscape gardener, had
worked II, She had helped him then
by soliciting orders for flowers in sea-
son and for bedded and potted plants
But he died and all the work fell on
her.
That Is ALL" Mrs. Absolute said.
with the declaration that she is not
doing anything unusual for a woman.
1T was hard at first, because there
were many things that | didn't know.
But am learning, and now that l am
started | will get this place in good
shape unless l die trying"
She struck her hoe into the earth
with emphatic vigor.
zone thing this proves" she said,
after while. "A woman can make
living for herself on a small place.
1t takes hard work, though"
Works Hard All Day.
1t does take hard work. This young
woman is up at daybreak, and is
working all the day, wedding, digging
trenches. building terraces, doing a
hundred things incident to the OPP
ration Of the establishment.
II don't have time to get lonely
she said. Mrs Anschutz's aged ia
Their from Germany is with her, bat
he win return home soon. She saws
she may employ a man to help her,
but she says II with an air that tells
you plainly she feels il her duty to
work the place herself. and that sac
will employ help only when it is nee
/ essary.
Mrs. Anschutz's husband, a native
German, belonged TO a prominent
family in the old country, and at one
. time his brother was Ambassador
from Germany TO Austria.
Mrs. Absolute will always call II
his garden" and apparently never
considers It as her place. She is plan
ming a big evergreen arch at the en-
trance to the little place, with the
designation Absolute" on It. 1t will
be her husbands monument
He always said he would build a
sign like that when the gardens were
completed" she said
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