The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-27


 ing can break away from her round of arduous social duties at the White House she slips out the south door into the south gardens, armed with trowel, spade and miniature rake, there to potter around among the myriad plants that embroider the lawns.
 Spring, in addition to being the time for loving, is also the time for plant ing. Perrenials and other hardy plants are intrenched in the cultured Wiite House beds in autumn time, but the tender, short-lived plants, like the hyacinths, phloxes, jonquils, sweet williams, pinks of the old-fashioned variety, scarlet sage, pansies and heliotropes are planted in early spring. The tulips already are up, and with their riotous colors lend wealth of color to the grounds and for the pres ent enjoy unchallenged leadership among the flowers of the White House lawns.
 Mrs Harding is proud of her o1G- fashioned fondness for pottering around her gardens. Just as in olden Marion days she stepped out from the kitchen door into the backyard and transplanted this and pulled up that, or made a string ladder for the trailing arbutus, only to hasten back to the house to attend to the domes- ticities of her home, so now does she step into her "backyard" at the White House, in the wake of many social duties, to wander along the cinder paths, directing the work of the crops of gardeners, and herself occasional 1y kneeling down beside some cluster to correct wayward flower or trans plant an iris, so that it's color will offset a sister plant and thus add to the sum total of beauty that the south gardens fairly breathe.
 IS NOT AMATEUR
 Nor is Mrs Harding an amateur. Mrs Harding knows just what she wants, where she wants it and when. Accustomed for many years of her life to joint managership of a cou,. try newspaper, she is never at a loss as @ communicable it in the direc- tion of a corps of gardeners or in tho ,,r,ff <f 0ff hn 1St+ form in the composing room.
 When you call at the White House to pay your respects to the wife of the President you will find that if your line of conversation runs to in- quiries regarding the social life at the White House that Mrs. HarG1I 2 is not very talkative. But if you tell Mrs Harding that the magnolia trees on the north lawn are-Oh. something superlative--then you will probably be late for your next engagement, for Mrs Harding will insist that you ac- company her into the south gardens and see for yourself the Japanese inanemones and her pet rosebeds and the phloxes that border the lanes that interWine the cherry trees on the south lawns. And if you like any par ticular flower very much you may rest assured that you will go away laden with floral offerings from Mrs. Hard ing.
 PRESIDENT HAS BAD HABIT"
 President Harding of late has ac- ,uuired what in the mind of Mrs. Hard ing is ''bad habit" After six o'clock before the westerning sun has spent itself completely, the President gath CTS his favorite sticks and with bat tery of golf balls, marches into the south lawn area, there to practice new stroke or to execute fancy putt that he probably saw someone male at the Chevy Chase links the day be- fore. For a caddy he takes along Laddie Boy, his Airdale, and Lad IT. Boy is proving himself an excellent caddy.
 That is all very well, but when the honorable First Magistrate Of the nation essays to build himself tee with soil stolen from the bases of ten sder plants and cracks his stick .nd sends a hardy ball spinning among a cluster of jonquils and Laddie Boy tears through tn phalanx of ros 's to repain the ball-that's a matter which