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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-06-20
PLANTS AROUND THE HOUSE
BY LIMA r. ROSE.

A great deal of discriminating care
should be exercised about the plants
located close to the house. Those set
in such a manner as to hide the foun-
datiOn of the house and relieve the
baroness should be plants that do not
grow much higher than the wall.
Some Of the best plants for this sort
of adornment are the herbaceous spi-
reas, dicentra and perennial phlox.
Such ANNALS as ten weeks stock, as
ter, nicotiana, nasturtiun and core
opsis can also be used effectively.
GladioH furnish a brilliant display
in midsummer and the tuberose is a
fragrant plant that also should have
place near the house.
Scatter bulbs for early blooming all
through the lawn and close to the
path Old-fashioned plants are always
happy selection because they pos
sess genuine merit and have been
proved.
Make homes instead of houses by
the good taste exercised in your plant
ing around the home grounds and dis
play your originality along conserva-
tive lines and make your planting ar
engagements artistic.
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are wide, and strips B several inches
longer than the combined length. Nail
strips A to the box ends, even with
the top edge, and with a saw trim off
their ends even with the box sides.
Nail strips B to the sides of the boxes
and saw off their ends even with the
surfaces of strips A. The vertical
strips shown il. Figs. 3 and are of
the same widths as strips A and 3.
They finish off the corners and coa-
ceal the joint between the boxes.
If the window sill is wide, the flow
er box will not require fastening, but
if narrow it will be necessary to sup
port the box by chains fastened to
screw-hooks screwed into both the
window frame and the box ends Figs.
9 and ~. Wedge-shaped blocks will
relieve the supporting chains Of a con-
siderable portion of the weight of the
filed boxes Gigs. 8 and s..
The plant stand in Fig. is made
similar to the window box in Fig 4
with the corner strips extended for
legs, and shelf fastened between to
brace them.
Nail strips A and B in place first,
then cut and nail together each pair of
corner strips c and D Gig. 81. cut
ting d enough narrower than G to al
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the front door stood open, and we
could see Hard on a ladder mending
the beautiful carved doOrcap outside.
''This hall the same color" said L,
with the rails of the baluster in the
cream white of the trim
We went into the northeast room and
the dining room behind it.
Same color here?" asked the painter.
was about to answer yes, when
Miss Goodwin spoke. Il should think
you'd want these rooms lighter in
color" she said, 'as they face the
north"
''The lady's right" said the painter,
''They always are" / smiled. you
two fix up the color for this room, then.
We can decide on the other rooms after
these downstairs are done"
NO" cried the girl, Il won't do any
thing of the kind You might not like
what | picked"
"IDcredible" said l. "I've really got
to get to work outside now" And | ran
off, lea wing her looking a little angrily
l thought, after me.
/ was so patient to see how my
lawn was going to look that | went to
the shed to hunt up a dummy sundial
post. In a loft under the caves | saw
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Found Myself Wishing Miss Good
win Were There.

the dusty end of what looked like a
Doric pillar polzing out dragged the
heavy column down, sawed off the up
per four feet carefully. and took my
pedestal around to the lawn. Midway
between the trellis and where the edge
of my pergola was to be | placed the
pillar. Then | took out my knife and
thrust the blade lightly in at an angle.
to simulate the dial marker, and turned
to call Miss Goodwin.
But she was already standing in the
door.
'Ohr' she cried, running lightly down
the plank and across the ground. "a
sundial already, and real pedestal.
Come away from it little. and see
how it seems to focus all the sunlight
We stood off near the house, and
looked at the white column in mid
lawn. 1t did indeed seem to draw in
the sunlight to this level spot before
the dwelling. even though it rose from
the brown earth instead of rich green
sward, and even though beyond it was
but the unsightly, half-flnished, naked
tre!lis. Even as we watched, bird
came swooping across the lawn. alight-
ed on my knife handle, and began to
carol.
"Oh, the darlingr' cried Miss Good
win. He understands
was very we'll content l had I'M
eXpectedly found a pedestal, and was
experiencing for the first time the real
sensation of garden warmth and init
macy and focused light which sun
dial, rightly placed, can bring. l did
not speak. and presently beside me |
heard a voice saying, But l forgot
that 1 am angry at you"
''Why?" l asked.
Because you had no right to leave
me to pick out the paint for your din
ing room," said She
why not?' said L. You picked out
the name of my house and the stylz
of the rose trellis."
''That was different" she replied.
Il don't see why
Then you are extremely stupid,
she answered.
Doubtless" said I. But that
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doesn't help me any to understand, you
know"
Come" she replied, land see if the
paint suits you. Then | must go home
ana write some letters"
| went back to my sundial, between
two rows of caulifower plants Beri
had given to me, and which Mike had
set out thus early for an experiment.
between threads of sprouting radishes,
lines of onion sets, and other succulent
evidences of the season to come. As |
marked out the beds around the pedes
tai, | found myself wishing Miss Good
win were there to advise me.
By then the hour was nearly
twelve, and consequently too late to
spade it under. so 1 plodded up the
road to dinner. AS l passed my potato
field. | saw rows of green shoots above
the ground, and out under my lone pine
l saw figure. sitting in the shadow
on the stone wall.
| climbed through the brambles over
the wall and walked down the aisles
of potatoes toward her.
.Tt is time for dinner" said meekly.
She looked up. rs it? | have been
listening to the old pine talk"
what was he saying?' | asked.
Things you wouldn't understand"
said she.
about words in 'hy'?"
She shook her head. mot at all;
nothing quite so stupid-but nearly as
Saddening" She rose to her feet, and
her eyes looked into mine, enigmatical-
ly wistful.
81 missed you after you went away
from Twin Fires said | suddenly. 81
don't know whether | got the sundial
beds right or not. Won't you please
come back to tell me? Or am | stupid
again, and mustn't you advise me
about that?'
Her eyes twinkled a little. you are
still very stupid she said, "but per-
haps | will consent to give my invalu-
able advice on this important subject"
"GOodr' l cried. "And We'll build
some more trellis if your hands are bet
ter"
MY hands are all right" she said,
with the faintest emphasis on the noun,
which made a variety Of perpleXing in
terpretatiOns possible and kept NE
silent as l helped her over the wall in
to Bert's great cauliflower field. and we
tramped through the soft soil toward
the>house
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CHAPTER Vl-Continued.

"He viii sing tomorrow" said /.
"There is no opera on Thursdays"
Her eyes twinkled once more. "Per-
haps he has that terrible disease, sud
den indisposition.' she laughed.
Come, we must go home to supper.
1t will take me hours to get clean"
Out in the open, she looked at her
hands "See, I've begun to get calluses,
toor' she exclaimed, holding out her
palms proudly.
you've got blisters," said I. mo
work for you tomorrow! Let me see. "
touched her hand, as we paused be-
meath a blossoming apple tree, with the
fragrance shedding about us. Our eyes
met, too, as | did so. She drew her
hand back gently, as the color came to
her cheeks We walked on in silence,
as far as the pump. Mike had finished
milking, and had gone home. The
stable was closed. Inside we could hear
the animals stamp. Suddenly [ put
my head under the pump spout, and
asked her to work the handle. Laugh
ing, she did so. and as | raised my
dripping head | saw her standing with
the low western sun full upon her, her
eyes laughing into mine, her nose and
lips provocative, her plain blouse waist
open at the throat so that | could see
the gurgle of laughter rise.
why did you do that?" she asked,
arrested, perhaps. by something in my
gaze.
Because" | answered, there's a
ghost lives in this well, and maybe
with your aid | shall pump it out"
Don't you like the ghost?" she said.
Every much" said l, as we climbed
the slope to Bert's.
That evening Mrs. Bert sent her off
to bed. and | toiled cheerfully at my
manuscripts till the unholy hour of
eleven.
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CHAPTER Viii.
| Write a Sonnet.

After dinner she approved the sun
dial beds with a mock-judicial gravity,
and then she went at the trellis, work
ing with kind of impersonal nervous
intensity that troubled me, | didn't
quite know why. She said, with a
brief laugh, it was because she had
suggested the structure. and she could
never rest till any job she had under
taken was completed
You live too hard" said I. That's
the trouble with most of us nowadays
We are overcivilized. We don't know
how to take things easy. because we
have the vague idea of so many other
things to be done always crowding
across the threshold of our conscious
ness"
Perhaps" she answered "The j.
words, for instance, if they get Il done
before my return Thank heaven, T.
hasn't contributed SO many words to
science as 'Hy'r'
Forget the dictionaryw I cried
you are going to stay here a long
time-till these roses bloom, or at any
flower. Besides, there'll be a lot of
things about my house where your ad-
vice cannot be spared"
She darted a quick look at me. and
turned back to the trells, where
she was mailing on strips. She
did not speak, and when / came
over to face her, with post
for the next arch. l saw that her
half away, blinking her eyelid- hard.
bit her lip, then picked up the level and
set it with smack against the post.
l put my hand over hers-both our
hands were dirtyi-and said, What
is the matter? Are you tire6?'
please, please-level this post she
replied.
Are you tired?"
mo. I'm not tired I'm fool. Come.
we must finish the arch"'
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KEEPING WEEDS OUT OF LAWN

II one gets a good set of grass in
the beginning and keeps the ground
fertilized by coating of stable ma
nure or commercial fertilizer every
spring there will be little trouble with
weeds in the lawn, If the lawn is kept
properly moved
Some claim that there are weeds
that cannot be clipped with the lawn
mower We have found this COM
plant true where the revolving mower
was used, for it will bend and not cut
wiry stems, as of crab grass and
some other troublesome plants.
The only way Of getting these is by
clipping off with a mower that has a
sickle similar to a hay mower The
guards of these machines raise UP the
stems and the sickle cuts them off
without MASKING down or pulling.
There is no need of ucing the hook
so much If one is careful, when get
ting a mower, to get one that cuts
ahead of the wheels, and as wide as
the extreme distance apart of the out
side of the wheels This will not leave
the strip along the borders that Is
mashed down by the wheels.
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knife, along the center, to provide for
telescoping one half into the other
as shown in Fig. 9. Stitch the tele-
scoped ends together, then cover the
outside of the box with tissue paper,
and attach q ribbon to the corners for
a handle
A berry box furnishes the material
for the pretty little hooded basket in
Fig. 10. The first thing to do is to cut
the bottom of the box in half, dag
onally, from corner to corner, as indi-
Gated by the dotted line in Fig II,
and remove one half Gig. 49,. Then
prepare triangular piece of card
board like that shown in Fig. II of
the same size as the remaining half
of the box bottom, with flaps along
the two short edges, and glue the piece
between the box sides opposite the
bottom half Zig 49,. Instead of
cardboard, the triangular piece may
be cut out Of berry-box wood. Cover
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CHAPTER VII.
Picking Paint and Quarrel.

Picking Paint and a Quarrel.
The next morning at breakfast a
burned nose confronted me across the
table, and the possessor ruefully re-
garded her sore palms.
mo work for you today said l.
"You will just have to pick out colors
for me. The painters are coming"
l spoke as if we were old friends. l
spoke as If it were the most natural
thing in the world for a young woman
to accompany young man to his
house and pick out paint for him. |
spoke, also, as if l had never cursed
the prospect Of petticoats that advise.
SO soon can one pair of eyes undo our
prejudices, and so easily are the con-
yentfons forgotten, in the natural life
of the country-at least by such per-
sons as never were much bothered by
them, anyhow!
Evidently they had never greatly
troubled Miss Goodwin, or she was not
disposed to let them trouble her now.
for ten minutes later we went down
the road together, and found the paint
erS already unloading their wagon. The
reliable Hard Cider true to his word.
had procured them for me, which, as
| afterward have discovered. was
something of feat in Bentford, where
promises are more common than fulfill
ment
Now" said I, I'm not going to pa
per any rooms if / can help it. l want
the walls calcimined. What color shall
it be?'' l turned toward Miss Good
win as | spoke.
She shook her head. ''I'm not going
to say word" she answered. This
is your room"
Il suppose you want the woodwork
winter the painter suggested. These
old mantels, for instance"
Cream white, not dead white" said
/. wait minute" l ran to the shed
and brought back two more Of my pic
lures.
"Now," said l, 1.-The walls have got
to set off both these pictures. and books
besides. They've got to be neutral.
l want greenish. brownish, yellowish
olive. with the old beam in the center
of the ceiling in the same kew. only q
bit darker"
The girl and the painter both
laughed.
''You are so definite" said she.
"But I want an indefinite tint" /
replied.
Again she laughed, though the paint
er looked puzzled.
''I'll get my cOlors," he said.
He mixed an olive tint, laid streak
of it on the plaster, and something
emerged which looked right to me.
We went into the little hall, where
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the edge OF the paper as in Fig. 3,
then cover the outside with cOlored
tissue paper, gathering this into small
plaits at the bottom, and slashing it
to form fringe. Cat a strip OF paper
z inches wide, slash it as shown in
Fig. to form fringe, and paste it
around the top, allowing the fringe to
hang down. The basket handle is
made Of strips Of tissue paper 2
inches wide, rolled lengthwise into
slender tubes, then braided together
Gig. s.. Stitch the ends to the top
edge Of the cornucopia
Fig 6 shows unique form Of bas-
ket made from a writing paper box.
The dotted lines in Fig. 7 indicate how
to cut the box ends at their centers,
and the dotted line in Fig. 8 shows
how to score the box bottom with a
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STOP MARCH FOR DEVOTIONS
Wayside Shrine in Stricken Coun-
try of Montenegro.

War is not all horror and death, as
the following little story illustrates:
On Christmas eve as a division of
Hungarian Honveds marching through
the Tara district in Montenegro was
descending the serpentine road lead
ing down steeply from the mountains
the first regiment passed by a little
wayside shrine of the Virgin and
child. Two men stepped suddenly
out Of the ranks, lighted two small
candles and placed them before the
images.
Many others followed their examples
and the number grew to probably
1000 altogether. 1t was dusk and
the spectacle of the tiny flames flick
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SYNOPSIS.

l grow tired of my work as a college
instructor and buy a New England farm
on sight ! inspect my farm and go To
board at Bert Temples. Bert helps me to
hire carpenter and a farmer. Hard
Cider, the carpenter estimates the repairs
and changes necessary on the house. Mike
commences blowing. / start to prune the
orchard tree Hard Cider builds book
cases around the twin fireplaces. Mrs.
Temple hires Mrs. Pillig for me as q
housekeeper, and announces the coming
OF a new boarder from New York, a half
sick young woman who needs the country
air / discover that Stella Goodwin will
make a delightful companion and believe
she ought not to return to the hot and
dusty city for a long time.
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Surprising the Master.

In his ''Recollections" Bishop Wei
don tells an amusing story Of an Elton
bog. 1t was during a science class.
AID the master was showing his class
tt e effect of heat upon two fluids in
two tubes, when voice at the back
OF the room audibly exclaimed, Three
to one on the red" The master, TAX
ing out of his pocket notebook, was
proceeding to enter in it an imposition
OF two or three hundred lines against
the name Of the boy whom he sup
posed to have marred the effect IF bis
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low for the thickness of c when
nailed to it. Twenty-six inches is a
good length to make these legs When
you have nailed them to the box cor
ners, fasten the cross-strips E between,
and cut and fasten the shelf board F
between cross-strips E.
If the plant box is to be used in
doors it must have metal liner so
water will not drain on to the floor. A
ti1smith will make a sheetiron box for
between so and IS cents, according to
size.
Paint your flower boxes with at least
two coats of paint. After the first coat
has dried putty all cracks. joints and
nail holes.
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is it time for the hero to pro-
pose? Is Stella playing a lit
tie game to awaken his sym.
pathy and lead him on to the
entang!ements of love?


erlng clear in the still wintry air was
dramatic spectacle to behold.
So numerous were the gray worship
ers that as the space immediately
around the shrine gave out hundreds
of Honveds dug their tapers into the
ground around it.
The whole snow-covered meadow on
which the shrine stood had been con-
yerted into mass of Pickering
flames. Silently the men stood, send
ing their Christmas prayers to the
"Christkind"
Then the snow and the dark and
the slush Of the road once more swal-
lowed UP the long column of the
Black mountains invaders. = New
York Sun.
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nail them diagonaliy across the ends.
The tops of these strips must be
trimmed off even with the corners of
the box ends. Screw a screw-eye into
each upright and connect a 30-inch
piece of iron jack-chain to it by which
to hang up the box.
Figures and show how to join
two grocery boxes end to end to make
long window box. These may be cut
down in length so the combined boxes
will exactly fit the window opening.
Nail the boxes end to end. Then cut
strips A and B Gig 81 IL inches wide
strips A a trif1e longer than the boxes
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TIE ETERNAL BATTLE WITH
BUGS IN THE GARDEN

Spray, spray and forever spray, If
you would save the fruit of your or
| chard, field and garden.
Countless days OF labor of men and
| women are lost, hope turns to disap-
| pointment, and ambition blighted be-
cause of the unchecked ravages of in
sects and disease.
The vital Importance of spraying is
beginning to be realized by fruit and
vegetable and flower growers, but all
too slowly.
The formulas of the most important
compounds for spraying will be of val
ue to the intelligent and dead-in-ear-
nest grower.
Any Of the sprays mentioned can be
applied with comparative safety to
any plant or foliage If moderation and
judgment are used.
Paris Green Formula.
Paris green ................1 Lib.
Fresh (unslaked) lime. 4 Lib.
Water .............. 200 Gals.
Paris green is heavier than water
and the mixture must be kept in con-
slant motion during spraying opera
lions to prevent settling.
1t is often adulterated. Gypsum and
slaked lime are two adulterants com
monty used.
Pure paris green dissolves without
sediment in ammonia, the adulterant
will not. This affords a simple test
for purity.
Paris green if used on growing
plants greatly in excess of the above
formula may injure the foliage. The
addition of the lime overcomes the
caustic properties and renders it safe
under all conditions.
Dry paris green may be used pure
If applied in small quantities. Differ
ent dry powder guns" have been in
vented for this purpose.
Poison for Biting Insects.
Arsenate of lead .........2 Lbs.
water 0U GdlS.
Arsenate of lead is a combination Of
white arsenic, sugar Of lead and sal
soda. 1t may be prepared by combin-
ing these materials in proportion, but
the process involves considerable la
Dor and danger, as the ingredients
must be combined by boiling.
Arsenate of lead is less liable to in
jure foliage than paris green. 1t re-
mains longer in suspension. 1t ad-
heres better to foliage. 1t may be
used for any purpose for which paris
green is employed in liquid sprays.
White HeIIebore.
Powdered white hellebore is COM
monty employed to destroy currant and
cabbage worms and on fruits and vege-
tables where more poisonous sub
stances cannot be used with safety.
White heliebore ............1 Or.
w dtcI Vi IdlS.
1t may also be used dry, either alone
or mixed with flour, land plaster, SCOT,
etc.
White hellebore is scarcely poison
Gus to the higher animals and may be
used freely on fruits and vegetables at
any stage of maturity
Used only to destroy sucking in
Sects. 1t may be applied to the in
sects and cannot be used as a pre-
ventive.
This is the standard remedy for
sucking insects.
Dissolve one pound hard soap in two
gallons of boiling water. While hot
add two quarts of kerosene
Churn or shake the mixture while
hot for five to ten minutes or until
it assumes creamy consistency. Add
six gallons of water before using.
Another plan consists in using sour
milk instead of the soap water, the OBJ
ject in either case being to hold the
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PORCH AND WINDOW FLOWER
BOXES
-- Copyright,

The hanging box in Fig. 1 must be
made of a box Of equal width and
depth; if you cannot get one of these
proportions, take wide box and saw
off enough to make the width and
depth the same. as Indicated in Fig.
2. Reinforce the mailing of all boards
by driving in additional nails; then
cut the hanger uprights A Gig. - and
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(: HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
/:
s A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS
FLOWER BASKETS.

The cornucopia basket in Fig. 1 is
dainty holder for wood violets and
other small flowers, and its depth
makes it desirable shape for long
stem flowers also. Fig. shows how
20 roll up sheet of heavy writing pa
per into a cornucopia. Lap and paste
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Because it lacks accessible quarries
from which to get paving materials,
Brazil is forced to import cobblestones
from Portugal.