Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05

~ HERE'S rosemary for remembrance, and
panses for thought, and sunshine and
green things for the joy and love of life.
"Granma" Robsons garden out at Kirkwood
has all these things. When you get TO be seven
ty-five years old you know 1t is good to have a
place where you can plant flowers and dreams,
and where YOU can play.
long time ago, long before she seventy
five, "GTan'ma" Robson wanted all these things,
and right away she began to long for a play
house in addition to a garden She would have
some very pleasant hours on earth when her
hair grew white and the great grandchildren
came.
And now she has the playhouse and the gar
den too, out In KirkwOod If on some fine
morning you feel inclined to doubt the good
ness and the wisdom of things In general, just
board an East Lake car, ride out past the paved
street. out beyond the grim mill section. out
into the open space. until you reach KiTkwood.
There. not far from the car line. down the quiet
main street you will stumble across the haunt
of familiar spirit of fairyland who is
"Gran'ma" Robson.
You will the playhouse. little log cabin
almost hidden away by fields of golden jon
quilS In the Springtime, roses and thyme and
old-fashioned flowers in the summer. and In the
fall host Of waving chrysanthemumS. And
all about is a garden. And very likely the
owner of the playhouse and the garden will be
there, too, planting flowers or garnering dreams.
Maybe she is writing in her Garden Book"
or weaving her Romance Rug OF maybe
merely sitting there, looking and listening.
The playhouse was built for Mrs Kate Rob
son by her son in 1905, when her health failed,
and the physician ordered her into the open
air. When the order came, Mrs Robson
thought joyfully of her long-cheriShed dreams
of a playhouse, and was enthusiastic when her
son suggested it. She wrote of all that in her
Garden Book"
Mrs Robson lives with her daughte~, Mrs.
c. r. DunwOdy. a block or two from the little
house. And so she is near the place where
she plays and can easily go when she wants
TO be alone or TO stay while among the flow
serS" as she says.
The Garden Book" Of the old lady Of the
playhouse the Romance Rug" is evidence
enough that here is of the choicest of Spir-
its. even If the evidence of the playhouse were
not enough. In the Garden Book" Mrs Robson
not only has written some garden sense" as
from the open, from the sky, the landscape
butterflies bug and bees and the flowers
These she calls her playmateS
Big thoughts come TO Mrs. Robson. there in
the garden and the playhouse. They are
thoughts that transcend the fairy romanceS Of
children, being deeper, and more spiritual. For
instance, expressing her desire for the out
doors Mrs. Robson wrote I'm her book:
"When spring sends her card by blueblrdS
and daffodils and all the little green things
spring up through the brown earth, and there
Is never a blade or leaf too smean. to be some
happy creatures palace and the atmosphere is
soft and balmy and the sunshine is kind O.
lazy and hay and that suggestion of lacy etch
ing gets in the trees, know my spirit gets too
big for my body and goes of on excursions by
itself.
ITO try TO write what feel and think upder
these conditions would be as futile as looking