Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-05
Some Kindergarten
 Helps for Parents
The best hehaNed fal rnrllon

The best behaved fall garden child l know is Daffodl, and next to her, her little brother Jonuuil. Sometimes great big fat Hycacinth behaves, but small, brown-coated
 smooth-looking, long g-nosed Daffodii IS quite the incest. So buy a few daffodil and jonquil bulbs and get acquainted with these two good chil- dren.
 would let our new friends stay on the table for several days be- fcre l planted them, so that we might get to know them by sight and by name, as we learn to know real flesh-and- blood children. But would be very careful to place these little comrades so that the rounded part or base was down and the poin- ted face sticking up, and 1 would never squeeze their noses!
 By and by the day will come when Jonquil and Daffodil must be plan ted. There are several ways of do- ing this. Suppose we use a glass jar first. It may be little fern bowl, like the one in which partridge ber- rles are sometimes planted. We fill the bowl almost full of fine white sand and if we have no sand we take some baskets or our little carts and go to a house that is being built and ask the builder if he will give us just little sand for our garden. Into this bowl full of sand we plant our daffodil or our jonquil bulbs They must nestle down so that only little bit of their noses stick out. h111 he, !, other. They would not be comfor- table that way. Two little girls would not like to sit so close to each other at the breakfast table that neither one could move. We must always make our plant children as comfortable as we are ourselves.
 Next, give the bulbs big enough drink to soak the sand thoroughly, but not enough to have water stand ing on the surface. Now put the bowl away in the dark. The place does not have to be cool, but every little while the said should be mois.. tened.
 In about ten days or two weeks, To and behold, you will notice long white roots struggling all around and through the sand close to the glass where you can see them, and the noses have put forth some white leaf-like shoots. It is now time to bring our little garden to the light. Then in just few days a miracle takes place. The roots have shot back into the sand; they do not like the light. and want always to re- main cool and covered The noses have turned green. And within about three weeks Daffodil and Jon quill blossom!
 Sometimes instead of using the sand, place some small stones in a low, pretty bowl and arrange the bulbs on top of them. This bowl should be put away in the dark for about ten days or two weeks and then brought out into the light. There should always be enough water to touch the base of the bulbs but never to come around them. This, you see, is just the way we start Chinese lily bulbs, but Daffo- dil behaves better tha nthe Chineses lilies because her blossoms rarely blast.
 If you like Daffodil and Jonquil may also be planted in pot or soil. Even so, leave their noses stick out and you must put them in dark cold place for five or six week. It is better, I think, to use the sand or the stones with Daffodil and Jon- quil because then you don't have to wait so long for them. -
 After yo uhave planted your first two or: three daffodils and find out just how long it take in your home for them to blossom. you could start some for fathers birthday, timing them just right. Of course, it is understood that father will be kind enough to have a birthday this fall. If he will not them mother or grand mother or baby surely will. l can-