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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01
NEW SYSTEM OF FARMING,

from the Progressive Farmer
The big fact of our time, so far as
the agriculture of the South is con-
cerned, is that we are in period of
transition from the old, ruinous sim
gle-crop system of farming TO a
sounder and more profitable system
of general and livestock farming.
Many farmers seem not yet to have
realized this fact, but it is a fact just
the same. THE new spirit of South
ern farming is not so much the spirit
OF reform as the spirit of revolution;
and the revolution is even now TAX
ing place. 1t is not only that the
Southern farmers are practicing bet
ter methods, getting better machin-
cry, making better crops, but that
they are turning away from the false
ideas of system which looked only
to tie crop to be sold in the fall
and accepting the new ideal of a sys-
tenn which looks first of all to the
preservation of the soil, and links
one year with another in an endur-
ing EFFORT to add continually to the
farms productivity and to the profits
the farmer shall receive for his work.
The South of the future is going to
be land of fiocks and herds, OF
contields and silos, of big barns and
heavy machinery, of meadows and
pastures and all the things which go
with livestock farming.
This change is not going to come
all at once, of course; and it is not
going to come at all until farmers
realize another big fact-that feed
must come before livestock, and that
the grass will not be sowed nor the
legumes planted to supply the horses
and cattle and hogs and sheep. but
that these animals will be grown and
red because of the abundance of feed
ana the profits to be had by utilizing
them. A system of livestock farming
and the profits that come from live
stock farming are alike impossible
without an abundance of feeds. At
the very foundation of stock hus-
DandJy are srass-clad fields and we'll
hlled Aaynows, and urtil these are
had aly large development of the
livestock Industry will be rrofitless. II
not impossible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01
The Patterson Appointment.

The Savannah News asks why is
it that it is thought that the office of
register of the treasury belongs to
the negroes, and says: 80 far as we
can recall a colored man has held it
for more than a quarter of a
century. The name of the register
of the treasury goes on all of the
paper money at present and doubt
less will go on the new currency that
will be issued in the event of the
Glass bill becoming a law. The name
of a colored man on our paper money
is a constant reminder that admins
trations may come and go and their
political compilations change, but
that we have always the colored office
holder with US. There was expecta-
ton that when the Wilson admins
tration came in the colored man
would go out of office, but he hasn't
gone yet. If he does go out of the
office of register of the treasury it
will be because the senate insists that
he shall. The president has nominal
ed to the office Adam E. Patterson, a
colored man of Oklahoma. Does the
nomination mean that the democratic
party expects a helping hand in ma
tional contests from the negroes, or is
it a recognition of past political ser
vices, the payment of a political
debit" -
Senator Smith of Georgia has call
ed on President Wilson and protested
against the appointment of Patter-
son, and Senator Vardaman of Missis-
sippi says that he will fight the con-
frmation of the appointment as long
as there is a chance of defeating it.
The chance of defeating it is far from
promising if the republican senators
it, and the probability is they
will
Senator Vardaman's contention is
that political equality will lead to So
cial equality. There Is much truth
in that contention. Political equality
is a step towards social equality, and
the oftener political equality is recog-
nized the closer we come to social
equality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01
LOVE LAUGHS AGAIN.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
Love often has laughed at lock-
smiths. Recently it laughed at mill
tant suffragism. And now it has con-
quered, chuckling, old age and the
poorhouse. Mrs. Esther Cooms, aged
70, was an inmate of a poorhouse in
New York state not long ago. Now
she is Mrs. George Scofield, and al
though the authorities put her and
her new husband in Jail pending an
examination" she is bride and the
heroine of romance. Her husband,
who, though younger than she is, has
passed to the shady side of fifty, ex-
hibited all the ardor and resourceful-
ness of lover of twenty who seeks
to outwit opposing parents and elope
with the girl of his dreams.
For three nights he stood under the
window of Mrs. Coon's room at the
poorhouse and whistled softly Love
tugged at her heart but she resisted
until, as she plaintively said, she just
couldn't resist his wooing any longer.
So she packed her few belongings,
climbed through the window at mid
night to the roof of porch and slid
down a pillar into the arms of her
waiting lover. The clippers hurried
through the night, reused a justice
Of the peace and were wed. County
authorities sought the runaways for
two weeks before they found her.
Poorhouse inmates are not supposed
to have love affairs, especially when
they reach 70 years, and officers of
the law were not convinced that Mr..
and Mrs. Scofield shouldn't be pun
ished for what they had done.
There have been occasional sug-
gestions in different states that the
law refuse to permit persons to wed
after they reach their three score
years and ten. Governor Tener has
just signed a bill forbidding inmates
Of almshouses in Pennsylvania to en-
ter matrimony. But 1t is hard mat
ter to Oslerize love or to scare it
away with the bugaboo of poverty.
There may be some nice old, unat-
tached ladies who think they have
driven all thoughts of romance away,
but suppose each of them was be-
sieged by an ardent wooer for three
successive nights whistled softly be-
meath the window, would she throw a
flower pot at his head or a kiss with
her wrinkled hand?
What a commotion Mrs. Coom's
elopement must have caused in that
poorhouse! Such a lot of whisper
ing and smiling must have been
heard and seen among the old women
left behind. What a fine story
Dickens could make of it all While
the serious world is furrowing its
brow over the tariff bill and the cur
rency question and wars and rumors
Of wars it likes to forget all those
things occasionally and smile at the
story of runaway pair of aged low
ers, even though the eIopement be
from a poorhouse. All the world
loves lover whether he seeks a gold
en- bride or one whose sole possess
sions are few patched dresses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01

Warning against pest that threat
ems every dinner table in the land
has been issued by the department of
agriculture against the potato tuber
moth, which is working havoc with
the potato crop in numerous parts of
the country, and whose ravages
threaten to prevent the planting of
vegetables in many places for the
winter supply. The pest is especially
prevalent in California and Texas, the
department reports, and throughout
the United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01
A Blessing in Disguise

The Augusta Chronicle sees a
blessing in disguise in the forced
economy the people of Georgia have
practiced this year.
Last year, the year before and the
year before that, says our contempt
rary, the average farmer, taking ad-
vantage of the ease with which he
could secure money at the banks and
in advances from other sources, rails
ed his cotton crop, sold it, and with
the proceeds took up, with interest,
the paper he had given bankers,
Warehousemen and supply houses.
For many years the average farmer
has been farming mostly on paper
for the other fellow. He has fallen
into the habit of working the borrow
ing game to the limit; 5000 to $500
to the plow. The money he borrowed
he spent before his fields whitehead
for farmers are human, and, like 9TH
er folks, spend more freely when they
have the ready cash in fat pocket
books-and along about October 1st
a bunch of Cancelled notes and re-
lieyed mortgages was about all his
cotton crop had netted him.
But the Chronicle sees better times
i'll store this fall. This year, even
should cotton bring no more than
ten cents, there will not be so many
notes to take up and fewer mortgages
and liens to satisfy, it says. For
the farmer, in common with other
folks-though he is generally prone
to consider himself alone in these lit
tie discomforting things in life-is
this summer experiencing more or
less difficulty in securing advances. !
Ready money, for reasons that are
obvious to any man who takes the
trouble to do a little thinking for
himself, is not so easy just now that
he can step into a bank and, with
mere scratch of the pen, fill his purse
with crisp new bills of pleasing de-
nomination. This year the farmer is
farming for himself and for his fam
lily, and on the land rather than on
paper for the other fellow; and while
to some of them the new arrange
ment is working temporary annoy
ance-for it is annoying, the lack of |
ample funds-when the cotton fields
begin to sing as they pluck the feecy
staple from the bursting bolls the
melody will bring more satisfaction
to the man who las perhaps Put up
with little hardship, for his bright,
mem bales will belon to him; the
price they bring will fill his pockets
with his own money, and he will have
the laugh on the banker and some
other folks. Blessings which come in
disguise sometimes cause those upon
whom they are visited a great deal
of needless worry, for the simple rea-
son that, instead of trying to pene-
trate the disguise to find the bless
ing, they accept the visitation at its
face value and oftentimes rebel. But
the farmer will begin to smile along
about October, if not sooner, and
somehow when a mans pockets are
full Of his own money his smile has a
real Significance"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01

1t is said that the opposition to the
bill pending in the legislature for the
equalization of taxation has come
from the counties which receive from
the state in pensions and school mon
ey more than they pay to the state
in taxes. The understanding is that
the number of these counties is at
least three-quarters of all the coun-
ties. If the bill should pass they will
have one satisfaction, and that is that
not many, if any of them, will be
taken out of the class of those receiy-
ing more than they pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01

Mr.. John Wacaster is the postmas-
ter at Murrayville, Ga, and the state
ment he makes about Foley Kidney
Pills give valuable pointer to 9th
ers who have any kidney trouble. He
writes: Foley Kidney Pills did nv
kidneys more good than any kidney
medicine | have ever taken" TRY
them. Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01

The Colquitt county farmers and
business men are going at 1t in a
practical way to solve the high cost
of living, and put money in their
pockets, as well. At a meeting of Col
quit county citizens held in Moultria
one day this week 100000 was sub
scribed to the capital stock of a cor
poration to erect and install mod
ern cold storage and packing house.
Numbers of farmers are among the
stockholders, and those who did not
subscribe for stock pledged them
selves to cut their cotton acreage in
half next year and devote their Land
and time to cattle and hog raising.
The citizens are elated over the sue
cessful elimination of the enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-01

We agree with the Augusta Chron-
icle that there is too much jumping
on of Joe NJ. Brown at this time. He
has not threatened to run again for
anything
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07

MIR. and Mrs. Guy Henderson left
Wednesday for Chattanooga for a
visit.
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Mrs. M. A. Parker left wednesday
for Cincinnati and Virginia, to spend
the summer.
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Mrs. w. L. oakley, of Gulfport, Is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Cos
by, on Walnut street.
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Mis- Edna Byrne, of St. Louis, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jack
Brierton, on Bay street.
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Mrs. A. B. Sanders, of Port Gibson,
Miss. spent Wednesday with Mrs. Lee
Turner, on West Pine street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Naylor and daugh-
tiers, Misses Edith, Evelyn and Jessie,
are spending the DAY IN ne" Olleans'
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Miss Emma Cragin is expected this
evening from Jackson, Miss, to spend
. two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Floyc
u. Ames.
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Dance at Hotel Hattlesburg.
The young people enjoyed dance
at Hotel Hattiesburg Friday evening
when about twenty couples were pres
emit
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Mrs. Dan G. Kelly and her son. Ell
gene, returned Friday night fror
Amite county, where they went to a
tend the marriage of Rev. Dan
Kelly's sister,, Miss Pearl Kelly an
Mr.. Marvin Petty, Of Wilson, La Tn
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
Of the Past.

We never, know our blessings unit
we lose them, How we used to ridi
.uI5 and rail at those SLOW coaches
the old-fashi6n.af horse-drawn omni
buses that numbered from srsatoL ~
stationl The passage of lady, to en-
ter or aiight. obIighed all the fares
to rise In order to let her pass. and
even then her skirts rubbed against
their faces. English nursery maids
and coachmen's wives at the Coucel
Ter end Of the way wore fearfully
strong and wide hoops that resisted
al side pressure.
The maids often lost their situations
because their skirts swept the lintels
Of doors and soiled them. I heard
one Of them say in answer To . civil
remonstrance from her mistress: "As
soon, mum, go naked as without my
crinoline." crinoline being the generic
name for all initiating undershrts.-
London Truth.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
PETAL ITEMS.

Misses Leta Pearl Moore and Mary
Morris spent Wednesday in Hatties-
burg as guests OF Mrs. G. l. Mcdonald.
Mrs. w. P. Lee, Of Morriston, has
returned home, after visiting her son
and daughter-in-lew, Mr.. and Mrs. R.
T. Lee. ..r-:
Miss Eunice Picket was the guest
of Miss Nellie Griffths, in Hattiesburg,
Wednesday. .t
Mrs. Charles King and children have
returned to their home in Hickory
Mss, after visiting their aunts, Mrs
G. e. Pickel and Mrs. G. D. Wilson.
Miss Daisy Thornton has returned
home, after a visit to relatives II
Eastabutchie.
Mrs. Hearn and little daughter, o
Ward, Ala, are guests of Mrs. violi
Moore.
Miss Sadie Smith, Of Toomsuba
returned home Saturday, having visit
ed her sister, Mrs. J. R. Simmons
Mrs. Simmons accompanied her siste
home.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07

who on next Wednescday morning will
become Mrs. David Peer9Gc.ameron.
Mrs. Martins home on Bay sticeet
was the scene of the shower. Punch
was served on the front porch, which
was enclosed and darkened, and the
punch table scattered with pink and
white sweet peas and ferns. Miss
Cora Lillian Cook, in white lingerie
frock, with pink ribbons, dispensed the
punch. KID, ,.
In the sitting room where bowls Of
nasturtiums were used, an informal
musical program was rendered by Mrs.
A. ]. Grove, Misses Ethel Powe and
Lucille Hightower. with number of
victrola selections. A contest, PRO
fessional Mems Wives" was feature,
Miss Bessie Powe winning the prize.
little ivory fan, on the cut with Miss
Lucille Hightower. Mrs. Stevens pre-
scented the honor guest with a linen
handkerchief and Mrs. Martins spe-
cial gift was a piece of hand-embroid-
cred lingerie.
Miss Folkes, who wore for the party
an imported white silk crepe dress
hand-embroidered in Oriental colors,
scroll design, and white panama hat
with pink tips, was requested to lead
the way into the dining room. Here
from the chandelier hung pink crepe
paper bag, from which when ribbon
was pulled, there showered down into
big pink crepe paper basket, dainty
handkerchiefs, gifts from the guests.
In the bottom of the basket, which
formed the center-piece on the table.
were hidden more gifts-toilet articles.
A hand crocheted cloth over pink, COW
cred the table and a big cluster of
sweet peas, pink and white, was tied
to the basket by tulle bows.
Pink and white cream, with white
block cake, were served, Mrs. o. S
Lewis, of Brandon, Miss; Misses Gle
ia Bonslagel and Cora Lillian Cook
assisting the hostesses.
Miss Ellie Montgomery found the
ring in the cake, Miss Annie Lou
Thompson, the dime, and Miss Lucille
Hightower, the thimble.
The guest list was limited to the
Sowania Club, of which Miss Folkei
is a member and relatives.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
RANKIN COUNTY JOINS
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT

Jackson, Miss, June Rankin
county is the latest recruit In the good
roads movement. The board Of super
visors has given notice Of its inten-
ton to issue $4,000 in six per cent.
bonds to be used in the construction
of modern highways leading into Bran
den, the historic county seat.
1t Is not believed that there will be
any serious opposition to the move
ment Brandon is one of the several
county seats in the state that have
virtually. stood still in recent years
and the newly-awakened enthusiasm
for good roads will doubtless give II
a decided impetus.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
Thlbetan Tea-Makina.

An Englishman, while in Tibet
was invited out to tea and learned the
art of tea-making as practiced in that
country. 1t appears to be somewhat
as follows:
For six persons boil a teacupful OF
tea in three pints Of water for ten
minutes, with heaping dessertspoonr
full of soda; put the infusion into the
churn, with one pound of butter and
q small tablespoonful Of salt. Churr
until the combination is Of the con
sistency of cream.
The Thibetans prize butter for tts
age. The best is often forty, fifty OF
even sixty years old.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
FOUR BILLION A YEAR
New Orleans Picayune.)

New Orleans Picayune.)
DR.. s, Adolphus Knope, professor of
medicine in the New York Postgradu-
ate Medical School, writing in the
International for June, declares that
the three diseases which do more than
any others to sap and undermine the
bodily health aud strength and the
mental vigor of the great body CT the
worlds population arr alcoholism, the
social evil and tuberculosis, aud after
doing incalculable harm to their VIC
tins in life, sweep them into nameless
graves.
According to this authority the
claim stands that rs per cent OF all
insanity is due to alcoholism and that
even a larger percentage Of crime can
be traced to the effects Of excuses in
alchohollc indulgences, but these esti-
mates are only from data supplied by
public institutions such as prisons and
hospitals. But there are no returns OF
the number Of epileptics, feeble-mind'
ed or those on the border line OF In
sanity who are at liberty and have
never been counted. Neither do we
know half of the crimes committed
l under the influence Of alcohol, for
unless the victim has been seriously
l injured physically and the matter be-
1 comes known to the police, nothing
is heard Of the accident
b Many diseases Of the heart, arter-
: les, kidneys, liver and of the nervous
J. system are primarily due to the inju'
II dicious use of alcohol, yet in the NOR
tality statistics they are mentioned as
heart disease, arteric sclerosis o.
g hardening of the arteries, nephritis
u cirrhosis Of the liver degeneration o
L the liver tissue) paralysis or nervous
p troubles, etc.
~ Long before the first distillation o
g aieohol by the Arabians the people
y the Southern ATTITUDES drank win
e ma those Of the North, out Of rang
Oh the vine, had beer and other feI
; |nented liquors, and they got drunl
much the same as they do now. b.
= q the liquors were not 90 strong &
Ire the rum, whiskey and brandy
&c kbday, they drank more in order
Become besotted. Alcohol came In
Europe with the Saracens when tn
- Invaded Spain In the twelfth centui
Il is claimed that alcoholic hQuc
~ oost the people Of the United Stat
ne four billion dollars and the inhabitsz
- OF Great Britain two billion dollars
nuaiiy. That 10 "going II some"
I the Ensiish-speaking nations.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07

The only lines a detective can work
along are the lines laid down by the
man he is after" Read how it was
done in 1.-THE Secret of Lonesome
Cove" a thrilling man hunt story,
which starts in The Hattiesburg News
Tuesday, June 10. If you are not al
ready taking The News, and want to
become a subscriber, notify us at once.
Both phones 1873.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
CHURCH SOCIETIES.

The Ladies' Aid of the Christian
church will met Monday afternoon at
$3.50, with Mrs. James Metz and Mrs.
Hugh Bolton, at the residence of Mrs.
Metz, 40 ROME street.
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The Catholic Ladies' Aid will meet
Monday afternoon at $3.50, with Mrs
Ryan, on Laurel street.
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The Reading Circle of the Main
Street Methodist Woman's Missionary
Society will meet Monday afternoon
at the church at 4 o'clock sharp.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07
OLD LEXINGTON TO CELEBRATE.

Lexington, Mass, June licking
ton, famous in history as the scene Of
the first engagement of the American
Revolution has donned gala attire in
anticipation of a three days ceIebra-
ton Of here 200th anniversary. The
celebration will be ushered in tomor-
row with church services and histori
cal exercises. Monday will be Old
Home Day and on Tuesday the cele-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-07

marriage ceremony was performed by
Mr.. Kelly at the Kelly home, near
Gloster, Miss.
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Mrs. E. L. Robins went to New
Orleans Friday for the weekend, to
be with her sister, Mrs. Williams, Of
Meridian, who is ill at an infirmary
there.
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Dean Grub, of McComb City, who
will hold services at Trinity church
tomorrow morning, arrived today and
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. P. ].
Toomer.
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Miss Ruth McInnis left Thursday for
Orange, Tex, to visit a Newcomb Col
lege mate, Miss Flavia Wignall, who
will be remembered as Miss McInnis
guest here last summer.
St-t.
Miss Frances Sanders, of Port Glib
son, Miss, Mr.. E. L. Glenn, Of Ellis
vile, and Mr.. r. l.. Tibert, of Ripley
Miss, are guests of Miss Margare
Turner, at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Turner, on Yves
Pine street.
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Mrs. Thomas l.. Claughton and he
little daughter, Helen, will leave to
morrow for Fort Worth and othe
Texas points. Mrs. Claughton, VIII
is going to visit relatives and for tn
benefit of her health, will be ava
two or three months.
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Rev. A. L. O'Briant returned Thur
: day from Leakesville, Miss, where b
went to officiate at the wedding
Miss Emma Green of that place an
= Mr.. j. B. Byrd, of Mt. Olive, whic
was a large affair at the Methods
church on Wednesday evening.
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II DR.. H. A. Jones, who Is conductiI
the meeting at the First Presbyteris
| church this week, is the guest of N
| and Mrs. D. e. McInnis, on West Phi
street. DR.. Jones is spending tod
with his family in Gulfport, but will
back tonight to preach as usual, at t
evening service at that church.
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Wedding Music Arranged.
| The music for the wedding of MI
Mary Pierce Folkes and Mr.. DAY
Peel Cameron, which will take pls
in Ellisville, Wednesday morning, b
been arranged.
Miss Lucille Hightower will 81
"All For You" and Mrs. Leo H. M
tin, Beloved, 1t Is Morn" prior
the bridal party's entrance.
Mrs. A. J. Grove win play the W
ding march and during the ceremo
ANGELS Serenade."
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Miss PIekett's Shower
For Miss Laird.
Miss Ethel Laird was the inspirat
for a rock party given by Miss Al
Mary Pickett, who will be maid
honor at the wedding Of Miss Ii
and Mr.. Heatherly. Of Bogalusa, 4
Tuesday.
Miss Clifford McGarrah, q cousin
the hostess, and Miss velma Hollel
served punch as the guests ente
the punch table being strewn
nasturtium blossoms.
There were four tables and