New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
MAN WITH THE HOE
A FEMINIST VICTIM
Girl with the Rake Prevails in
Contest of Children Farm
erS in City.
PUMPKINS FOR PRIZES
Members of National Plant,
Flower and Fruit Guild Make
Sand Lots Blossom
as the Radish.
your own row.,

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| Yes. that is the new version Of the old
saying Sixty little girls invented it yes
terday. at the harvest home festival cele-
| bration by the young farmers VINO. with
the help OF the National Plant. Flower
and Fruit Guild. have made the bare lots
below the Rockefeller Institute at cath
street and the East River. blossom as the
rose.
Well. maybe they didn't raise roses. bu,
they planted geraniums and made them
blossom. and they raised sweet alyssum
and sunfowers. and fat radlshes and corn
that grew taller than their heads. and
pumpkins-yes, really truly pumpkins. the
kind that make pies And Yesterday
they garnered their crops. and then had
n trial OF skill 10 see who could hoe the
best and rake the best
First sixty little boys grasped sixty lit
tie hoes and hoed their own rows as hard
as ever they could. But East sith street
IS not behind other localities In the ad-
vance OF the feminist movement. and
when sixty little girls seized sixty little
rakes and made the dirt Ay. the sixty
little boys had to admit that masculine
supremacy is fast becoming a thing OF the
past
As frecked farmer I'm overalls put Il
TO another freckled farmer I'm overalls
with gloomy eye resting on tho farm
ers In pettlcoats: skinny girls is
eettin' SOS they do things well as Us"
yep" agreed Skinny" An my sister
says when she grows up she's goln TO
vote"
still. the sixty little boys had pretty
good time yesterday. especially when the
time came 10 give out the prizes Mrs
George r.. Paul. exec Itive secretary OF
the guild. had kindly provided as many
prizes for the boys as for the girls. so the
feminist movement had nothing on them
there.
The two boys who had the incest time
Of all were Uncle joe and John Nee
nan. Uncle Joe" IS the boy OF fifty odd
years who all summer has been the right
hand OF Mrs. Nettie Bell the gardener in
charge OF the farming plot lie received
prize inclosed IN a neat envelope. and
everybody agreed that no matter how
large 1t might be IL couldn't be large
enough to reward "Cncle joe who was
was never known 10 stop working when
there was a ming 10 do. or say cross
word. no matter what happened.
AS for John. something happened TO
John when he was u baby. and now his
lead and neck have TO be supported in an
iron frame. Does anybody think that hin
dered John from farming? Well, rather
not! John got first prize yesterday for
faithful work. II was baseball mltt.
which, alas, he can't use now, but he
means 10 some day. Miss Minnie Nc
Kcnna got the girls first prize for good
work-a silver vase-and Dorothy Belcher
received another vase and Lawrence
Hipp a knife.
After this there was pause, and then
"Ah-h! the punkins" chorussed the one
hundred and twenty farmers.
Yes--two golden pumpkins. each as large
as a baby's head. II is going some 10
raise pumpkins like that in the middle Of
New York, and when Phyllis Sheppard
and Margaret Hasbrouck received those
golden spheres as prizes for the best
work in the raking contest they were two
proud little girls.
And one proud little boy was Leopold
Vitsky, who. for being best at the hoe.
received sheaf OF corn taller than him
self.
Bertha Clark. the wheelbarrow girl. re-
ceived big cucumber for the way she
has helped Mrs. Bell with the barrow all
summer.