The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-05

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expressed all of our feelings as he
gently whispered: Isn't ii wonder
fui. mother. these voices OF the
night"
we have a pretty little treetop
house. too. This is also built OF oak
wood Mrs. Kern laughingly added.
~ fact. almost everything relating
to the comfort of the house is com
plcte. | am now turning my atten-
tiou to the subject of my
After studying about trees and or
chard planting | found that soil prep
aration was the most important part
of The entire process. SO nave mao
the ground dynamited and cultivated
where l shall place my trees. | am
going to have apples. peaches and
cherries. / want a real old-fashioned
cherry orchard.
Did EVER have any training along
the lines of architecture or interior
decorating? No" answered Mrs.
Kern. Il have read a great amount
On these subjects. but that is all. Mr..
Kern says | have a knack of match
ing things. Perhaps that accounts for
he harmony Of my decorations.
when we bought this place in Vir-
! ginia we built better than we knew.
/: is nea Hollins, the Oldest girls col
iege in America. we have delightful
intellectual companionship and the
advantage or having so Deautlful an
Ole place in the vicinity
Mrs. Kern is expecting to entertain
a house party of friends before the
wor der of spring will have lost itself
in summer. Among her guests will
be Nice-PreSident and Hrs. Marshall.
Senator and Mrs. Atlee Pomerene and
senator and Mrs. Claude Swanson.
When Mrs. Kern said that she was
enute to be clever at matching col
ors the interviewer looked admiring-
IL g. her gown. 1t was of a shade Of
blue that exactly matched her eyes.
lier shoes, too, and her jewels were OF
the same color.
md, when one stops to think of it,
harmony seems to be the keynote OF
Mrs. kern'S character. She loves ma
turc and S urely nature, where mar
has not decorated it, is harmony par
excellence. She adores music, and
what is music but a form OF harmony
that appeals to the ear? She loves
poetry; the majestic cadence Of words
appeals to her as much for their har-
mony as for the meaning tucked
away within. She loves color blend
ing. for that means harmony to he,
sight.
Her very personality is harmoniou:
with accepted ideals. Her voice is soft
anu cledT, nef nalr Is nighttime per.
feet complement to her blond type
She is forcefui and intensely individ
ualistic. She has her own ideas abou
everything. She is, however, just ant
considerate Of the interests and feel
ings of others. She has infinite ca
pacity for affection.
Her two boys are her comrades
Their hopes and dreams are hers. Sh
encourages them in the cultivation O
all refined tastes and ambitions. No
long ago they took a night walk to
Sether in the country. Afterward
John, the elder, wrote a little shor
story, in which he mentioned that
maidens yes were the color of moon
light hadOw Mrs. Kern asked hin
if he a thought Of this all himsel
and he answered, We'll, it does SCUM,
rather like E%vangeline, doesn't it ?
But at the same time he is also yer
original and Mrs. Kern has hopes O
his becoming a writer.
Il have no patience she said, wit
the saying that boys will be boy.
/ That is a fallacy that has been i
vogue long enough. Boys must. Q
course, have an outlet for excess en-
1 erey. but it is not necessarily tru
2 that it must be a mischievous xpre
sion or that they are by nature roug
and wild.
Now. it is said that children hoy