Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-27
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az read with pleasure the Times Re-
publican's account of the newly found
luxury of green peas and garden sass
being enjoyed by some MarshalitoWn
man who had a garden this year" said
q prominent citizen, land l remarked
to my wife that this man had lived
great many years to discover luxury
which we have enjoyed all of our lives
1t is a real discovery, too, if people
only knew it for it is the only solution
the world will ever find for the high
cost Of living. We people in town have
been letting somebody else raise food
for us until more of US are trying TO
live in town and buy food than are left
on the farms to raise food / get this
out of the census"
T was up at a. m. this morning,
continued this business man. 1T was
too hot to sleep anyway. l picked red
raspberries anad bearing straw
berries for our desert, green corn and
new potatoes for dinner. Yesterday the
! boys picked late cherries from two
trees and string beans which will be
canned today. We had green apple
pie from our windfalls yesterday and
the boys will pick peas for dinner to-
dav. We keep a COW. The oldest boy
does the milking and the younger boy
raises chickens. That is why we had
fresh eggs for breakfast and can have
spring fries for Sunday dinner. Ihe
garbage and sour milk makes the finest
food ever for the chickens and we have
so much more lettuce than we can use
that we feed the chickens on it regu-
larlv. Our tomatoes are coming flne
but not quite ripe yet and our celery
will soon be capped with tile for the
blanching process. We never fail to
have fine celery
Say, 1 find that currant and goose
berry bushes sprayed occasionally Win
Paris green to preserve their foliage
make fully as ornamental hedges
and shrubs as the oaroerry OF
which Rubee is so proud and l have
them all in my yard. Our cellar is fun
Of currant jelly and spiced gooseoerry
Jam now and I believe that we are
about the only people in town who
have tasted the rich, red raspberry this
year"
Yes il takes a few years to bring
bush and tree fruits into bearing but
it is an easy thing to do If one will
merely start and keep at 1t. have had
a garden every year since I was a BOY
aad could not live better II l were
millionaire and 1 find at my age thai
a certain amount of work every day in
the garden is absolutely necessary for
me if 1 keep my appetite within sight
Of the younger appetites which sur
round our large table. And do you
know I heard the head of our commits
sary boasting to her neighbor that she
had actually reduced her grocery bill
this summer in spite Of all these war
prices. l don't know how she did it be-
cause we have lost out on our honey
this year since our bees have expert
euced an unprecedentd food shortage
and sugar has been sky high, but we
have managed somehow to take the II
out Of H. c. of L. in the face OF
growing family nearly twice the census
average in numbers"
81 could afford TO buy all this stuff
when some others couldn't but the
wonder mas always been to me that 1t
should require war and famine to teach
people how much more they could get
out Of life by living out a little ways on
a lot or two instead Of paying rent for
houses close in built three on lot.
If I had to raise my family on a me-
chanic's wage in these times l would
move into the country and ride BIZ
cycle or let my wife buy Ford with
her butter and egg money
This man went to work in Marshall
town twenty years ago at $50 per
month and today he manages bust
ness of his own. He is entitled to speak
| from a successful experience at provid-
ing