The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
IONA OF "EATS" KEEP OLD CLOTHES
eka Flower Have Topekans Don't Have Second
Changed Their Favorites Hand Apparel Now.
I'll of Onions Takes Place of War Times Have Taught Rigid
Scented Blooms of Economy.
|DENS OF VEGETABLES NOW REPAIRING WORN OUT SHOES
cOus Lettuce Pretties Peas of 1916 Vintage Is
and Biggest Beans! Plenty Good Enough.
piping Conversation Now These Are Slim Days for the
bout Adorable Asparagus. Hungry Rag Picker.
Topeka Flower Lovers Have
Changed Their FavOrites.
Smell of Onions Takes Place of
Scented Blooms.
GARDENS OF VEGETABLES NOW
Luscious Lettuce, Prettiest Peas
and Biggest Beans!
Shopping Conversation Now
About Adorable Asparagus.

That historic guy who made two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before is just as well dead. If he were
living he wouldn't even be in the same
class with Topeka's wartime DANES
and mesdames. They look with
naughty disdain upon any one who
spends his. time raising mere grass.
, Grass may be all right in times of
peace and low prices, but not now.
They are causing two onions to
grow where one violet exuded its fra
GRANGE before; two strong radtSheS to
grow where one weak pansy shrank
before, and they're causing whole
flock of common kitchen peas to grow
where one sweet pea bloomed in pro-
fusion last year.
If you are nosing about for the
aroma, the fragrance of flowers, drop
into some drug store and buy it in a
bottle. Don't waste any time in mi
lady's flower garden. For there you
will find, not violets, roses, chrysan-
themums, sweet peas and other plants
with poetic names, but practical
onions, radishes, lettuce, potatoes and
beans.
If you lack the price of a bottle of
perfume, pass up milady's flower gar
den and walk on out to some Shaw
nee county farm where there is more
uncultivated garden space along the
fences than in all the back yards and
vacant lots in Topeka. There you will
find wild flowers living the life of the
free. untouched by hoe or pillow. But
you'll not find them in Topeka back
yards.
She Doesn't Know.
Nay, nay. Not for minute. Milady
has been reading oceans of stuff writ
ten by agricultural experts who live
in apartment houses, ride to work in
limousines, and spend their days in
offices just under the skyline of sky
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of farming intensively every foot of
ground in America. She doesn't know
about the acres and acres of unculti-
waited ground on farms under the
shadow of the state house dome and
no one is going to tell her.
| These experts have told her she
| holds in her hand and her back yard
the cure for diseased grocery bills
and the fate of the fighting allies, in
| Europe. Easiest thing in the world.
Just sow few radishes, a few onions,
some lettuce, a peck of Spuds, a bean
and pea. Then pray for rain and
wait until they mature. Then when
| the groceryRan tells her that vege-
| tables have gone up" tell him to eat
his own weeds and she hopes he
| chokeS.
| OF course there is bare posi-
bility that inexperience has resulted
| in the use of poor judgment in the
selection of crops and the local veg
| etable market may become slightly
glutted along in July. When all these
kitchen gardens begin to produce their
harvests the bottom may drop out of
the market. But what's the differ
ence? Isn't a radish at 5 cents a
bushel just as good as one at 10 cents
q bunch? And besides, milady will
have the satisfaction of knowing she
saved her family and perhaps her
country from starvation.
They Talk About 1t Too
Beauty parlor and bargain counter
conversations have undergone trans
formation along with the flower gar
dens. And, by the way, the maids in
the beauty parlors say their business
has picked up wonderfully since the
| housewives have turned farmers. But,
to get back to the conversational pat
ter Mrs. Percival a la Mode, who lives
on Topeka avenue, meets Mrs. Pattie
de fol Gras, who lives in Potwin Place.
"Oh, Mrs. la Mode" Pattie patters,
you should see my b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l
garden. 1 scarcely have time to do
my shopping and keep my engage