Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-13


had knowledge on the subject be-
fore but I'm certain of it now. She
cleaned off a row about fifty feet long
from which we had our first mess Sun
day. and had started on a second row
just in bloom when apparently her APP
petite became surfeited. From the peas
her trail showed an uncertain and hesi-
tating course across the garden as
though she had wandered aimlessly
under the stress of mental or physical
uneasiness She had almost reached the
boys popcorn patch when she decided
to lie down and die.
Sick Almost Unto Death
| found her there Thursday morn
ing. She wasn't dead, but she was
far too sick to have any interest in
the question of canal tolls repeal
A. 3. C. mediation. She was at a
point. in fact, where she was mighty
any one who offered promises of set
Ting her own internal affairs. There
wasn't any of Carranza's offishness in
her attitude.
fine thing. now, for COW to do,
getting sick on my hands, wasn't it?
I naturally assumed that she had
foundered herself but was was a about as
as a newborn infant would be to
solve a problem in the fourth dimen-
sion.
learned since coming to the country.
Whenever | am up against It" on any
rural question; | fly to Mr.. Brown for
counselor and friend since the day 1
first came out to look at Sunny
Knoll. and ID he has never failed me yet.
l got Bill hitched up to the Dayton
wagon with all the speed of which my ex-
element would admit. and that anti
puated equine had the surprise of his
life at the gait / dashed him into. I'll
hef he N
twenty years.
Mr. Brown didn't exactly emulate
furrow but ne left COW half MIXED,
era bbed couple of bottles of medi-
cine from a shelf in the barn, and was
Fsa a f play w as r sa Of bosns aom
amazement had not faded from his
eyes. when / began to whip him up
gain.
7 didn't know but that the momen,
gill. the Dayton wagon. harness and d
all at auction for s42. Besides, the
COW has proved a much better invest
wise you always to sacrifice a poor in
vestment if necessary to save a good
one.
She Decides Not to Die.
| don't know what the medicine was
Mr.. Brown used, but l do know 1t con-
stituted only small part of the treat
ment. I stayed home from the office and
we worked over her for several hours
Along in the middle of the forenoon she
appeared to have changed her mind about
dying. We finally managed to get her
10 the barn and put her to bed on big
pile of soft straw. She seems to be about
all right now. but her supply of milk has
been cut in half. Mr.. Brown says she
will gain most of this back as her
recollection of green corn and peas grad
uaily fades and she requires relish for
the plain and simple diet which is proper
for a COW.
wonder what a man might properly
do for a neighbor like Mr.. Brown. The
"ase of the COW is only one of several
instances where he has sacrificed his
own interests in order TO be of service to
me, who came here an utter stranger
only three months ago. l couldn't offer
him money, of course, and l have no
lore or talent which would enable me to
repay in kind. If | can't do anything
more, | am going to find some way to
let him know how much his kindness
has meant to us. how it has sweetened
life and made endurable many things
which might well have disheartened a
novice in the country. And if Mr.. Brown S
help and advice have aided and en-
outraged me, much more has the friend
Joy to Jane. What they have done they
have done through the prompting of gem
erous hearts. without thought of gain or
advantage of any kind. No doubt such
people as the Browns are to be found
in the town as well as in the country.
but il never had been our good fortune
TO know their kind. Were there no other
advantages. the friendship of the Browns
alone has amply compensated US for
any sacrifice or comforts we made when
left the city.
Another Case of Foundering.
The cows case is not the only one OF
laundering we have had at Sunny Knoll
Among guests last Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Williams, who lived in the same
apartment house with in Washington
and Fred their ten-year-old sor. jim
and Ned. moved by spirit of hospital
~. INV ted Fred up a cherry tree II
the first time Fred ever had heen