Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-12
POSIES DOCTOR'S
CURE FOR NERVES
DR.. Florence Truax Would Make
Flower Garden of Entire Third
Ward-0ffers Prize.

Is your nervous system shattered
Are you "jumyy" and disposed to
find fault with everything because
you are "a bundle o. nerves.
Have you got that tired feeling?
Then follow the advice Of Or. Flor
ence Tippett Truax, Of $oS Atlanta
Avenue corresponding secretary Of
the Third Ward civic club, and raise
aowers. It matters not where you
raise them whether on the porch, on
the lawn in a flower bed. on the fire
escape or in the bathtub-but raise
flowers. and the sparkle will come
again into your eyes and the roses
i'm your cheeks: YOU viii De charita-
BILE and the tired feeling will dis
appear.
Here are a few Of the benefits
which DR.. Truax says follow the rais-
ing Of flowers:
Il gets people out Of doors, which
is mentally and physically beneficial
It is "a soothing and restful occu-
patton.
Caring for beautiful things makes
for beautiful thoughts. which is
moral benefit
1t cuItiyates a taste for the esthct-
ic and tine ethereal.
And mere, in the opinion Of Dr.
Truax is the reason raising flowers,
viii restore those shattered nerves
and change that jumpy disposition:
Working in dirt with bare hands
H. the best thing on earth for nerv-
Gus diseases. There is something in
the touch of Mother Earth that is
restful and soothing; something that
relieves the strain and brings peace
to the nervous system. No one knows
what IL IT, but IL is there just the
same"
la order to uroye her theories Or.
Truax has started movement that
bids fair to make of the entire Third
Ward a flower garden. She has Of
fered prize Of 81 for the prettiest
porcnboN, lawn. vase or flower bed
filled with flowers The entries must
AN be- in by the first Friday in May.
when the Third Ward civic club
meets. and the contest win close in
August Great interes, b. being taken
in the contest. and the entries prom
Use to be large.
Tru1x declared to-day. If am sue
cessful this year there win be more
prizes offered next year, and prizes
also will be offered for the children.
In fact. children are eligible to enter
this year, and / am sure that If O
child has an unusually pretty flower
bed. though not quite SO pretty as
that of a grown up, she win be given
a prize. Flowers ought to be raised
more extensively all over Atlanta
Nothing Is more conducive to a clean
mind and "a healthy body than rails
ing and caring for beautiful things
and hope to see the time when every
vacant space i'm Atlanta will be "a
flower bed
Dr TruaN has the support and CO
operation of the Third Ward club i'm
her flower campaign; i'm fact, the club
has added another prize To the one
offered by her The person i'm the
Third Ward who shows the best kept
ana cleanest yard during the months
of June. July and August viii receive
"a prize of s.. and already the boys
and girls have begun raking the
leaves and removing the tin cans.
getting ready 10 win the prize.
Another phase Of the activities Of
the Third Ward club which prom
ises TO bear fruit is the organization
Of junior civic clubs among the
school children Of the ward In
two of the schools-the Fair Street
and the Hin Street.-The clubs have
already been organized and the doc
trine of civic beauty is being taught
The organization viii he completed in
the other two schoolsAthe ". f. Sla-
tom and the Grant PARK within a
few Weeks