The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-15

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 book from some firm in New York that
 tells all about herb growing and how difficult it is to get the ones needed for condiments and perfumes and of l fering to buy first class lavender and ] thyme and bergarnot and sweet fern
 and things of that kind in any quanti- l ties at good price. She had shown l 1t to the little ladies, who had been
 secretly gfieving at the separation l from their garden out on their poorly l rented farm, and the leaven had work led-on Mrs Hargrove also. They go
 back to the farm and she with them l She had decicted on raising mint to 1 both dry and ship fresh because he of l the gay pajamas always liked to have ] it strong and fresh for the julep of his ancestors I hope she won't forget to take that pattern of Japanese extrae- ] ton with her and make some for Graz
 now and then, for it will save time. 1 Horrors!
 ssWe have fully decided on our course of action, Jane. and Evelina, dears,' ; l said Cousin Jasmine in a positive little
 manner that she would have been as incapable of month ago as is pet l kitten of barking at the family dog,
 e4but we do so dread to break it to dear James, because we feel tlaA.t he may think we are not happy under his l roof and be distressed. Do you believe we shall be able to make him see that
 we must pursue our independent nfe l though always needing the support of l his affection and interest2''
 T believe you will, Cousin Jasmine 7 l [ said, wanling to both laugh and cry to see the Crag's burdens begin to roll l off his shoulders like this. And the. tears that didn't rise would have been real ones, too, for I found that down in the corner of my heart had adored the picture of my oak with the tender ] little old vines clinging around him.. It was the producing gourd had most objected to, and I couldn't see but she would be there until uneIasped her tehdrils
 But was forgetting that. in the modern theory of thought waves 1t is
 the simplest minds that get the rip pies first and hardest Sallie came over. i just as soon as the other delegation I had got home to take the twins off her hands. Jane had gone upstairs to make more calculations oh our recon struction, and I was trying to get as i large, deep breath.
 Eyelina,' 7 she said as she sank in a
 chair near me and fastened her large,
 very young g-in-souI eyes on mine, were you just joking. Nell, or did you mean it when you said the other day that you thought 1t would be coward1y of a woman not to show man that she loved him if he for any reason was not l willing to make the first advances to her?o Sallie is perfectly lovely in the faint lavender and pink things that i Jane made her decide to get in one conversation, whereas while Nell and ] Caroline and had been looking lip and bringing her srrreptitfous sam pies of all colors from the stofe all summer.
 Ss.WeIl, T don't know that I exactly
 meant Nell to take 1t all to heaFt," [ answered without the slightest suspI- l cion of what was coming. ttBut do
 think, Sa1lie, it would be no more than honest, fearless and within a woman's own greater rights. z
 MT. Haley was saying the other :! evening that a womanss sweet de pendence was mans most precious heritage,'' SalIie gently unused out on the atmosphere that was beginning to l be pretty highly charged.
 Doesn't a woman have to depend on her husbands tenderness and care all ] of the time-time she is bearing q child,
 Sailie, even up to the asafetida spoon crisis ?" I asked, with my cheeks in 1 flame, but determined to stand my ground. It does seem to me that na-s ture puts her in a position to demand ] so much support from him in those times that she ought to rely on herself when she can, especially as she is like l 1y to bring an indefinite number of such crises into their joint existence.s
 SalIie laughed, for she remembered! the high horse I had mounted on the subject of Mamie and Ned Hall the. day after the assembly dance. And as I laughed suddenly a picture had seen down at the Halls flashed across my mind. I had gone down to l tell Mamie something Aunt Augusta
 wanted her to propose next day at meeting of the Equality league about drinking water in the public school building Mamie has learned to make, with pink cheeks and shining eyes, the
 quaintest little speeches that always carry the house md even made one at public meeting when we invited the men to hand over our $50 for the mon. ument Ned's face was picture as he held a ruf1ie of her muslin gown be- tween his fingers while she stood ID to do 1t.
 But the picture that flashed through my mind was, dearer than that, and put it away in that jewel box that am going to open some day for my own man.
 Both Mamfe.s nurse and cook had gone to the third funeral of the sea- son, and Mamie was feeding the entire family in the back yard. The kiddies
 were sitting in a row along. the top of the back steps, eating cookies and milk, with bibs around their necks, from the twelve-year-old Jennie, who had tied on hers for fun, down to the chubby -kins next to the baby-and Maj