Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-03
As ONE WOMAN SEES IT
The Making Of q Garden Furnishes
Another Illustration Of the Fact
That What You olve You Get
nv SARAH d. LOyVRIE

/ sAW most ingenious Toy tne otne' -
various stages hes garden had gone & su,sts tnsun,s
.siur .h,. a. \. ite ,,,ns sms,i modal made
ant sf mo,nt.J ,arahoard chat would A. on
on ord;norv sized Litchnn tohle. She poured
sonJ nvor III" tnhio md nofted ont the ter.
races md vnpio,,s slcnes Of the surface, and
this wns wa covsred n,tth a crccn feit cloth.
i.non ,ho oreon sro,na Tho vorious narts of
the ' garden I ~ were placed. from the summer
at the other end. with the lowered terrace,
Tho nool' the nstterre and shrubs and trees
and maths nj, Jnne IN ,n;nint,,re and ready
fn ba n,,t dow nv i,ftcd nm md nmt down
some other place az the fancy might suggest.
TO her ali these scparate m rts were sepa-
rote cbsntsr. IN tho historr NJ hsr Garden.
For the thins had srown little by little and
hsJ needed nncb MJu aSS;rstir. heforc e. settled
into its Anal shane I, wonld have been
difficult for any one who had NOT known it
in its various stages IN be s,,re what came
Rrst, or what had bee,, the finishing touch
10 that Garden hut Snc thing wns yerv an
parent--it hnd The an,c chm ract eristics which
marked its owner. Il WAS comfortable
rarden. and she was n most comfortable per.
son. Il had certain exarceratione, certain
unful6lied ssnects. as fbomsh II bod been
sketched in ntscss and nsvsr Allied ont. hut
made the heat AZ with A Kind Of amused
good temper, as though its owner said Of It
and Of herself: "Oh, give us time to i'm.
prove md Dlpn ntfmC lpf' pniOy tho view,
vr,1rr ,,o,.. .., a.. 80 h,r,,u crou,
. P""'s hau ah "!r Vi h"'ins s'o""
where they pleased and when they
piensed ana being chcertul. but rather $3.50
OF their kind and the owner said they we're
exactly like her servants, self indulgent ana
very oDliging, most agreeable and rather
untidy.
she was showing us the little model. not
with view to illustrating her ewn idiosyh-
RI
VIII arrange plot OF ground alike, for as
shc held piece after piece OF the garden
makeup In her hand-walls, rocks. terraces,
Pools ,seate, trees. flowers, shrubs, steps,
etc:--she bade us oniookers guess where they
say where VIC would prefer them. And IL
tn;s as qui'e true We se'uo" aSreeu aoou' "h''
'" SSa so,1 .,o. ,,o. ho1 h.., ..,. =. h.-
own foni,' '"t ,,n, ,' o., " thu. ,no,n "S ~ srSt
ovon thn,,:.ts 81 nuom .,,s ~ ,na. @ i", % 'nI he;
bad t ni .c & nIaao "aS a,ne, ms,s nn.,t;an @
rntbcr than with 40 ",,srotin, s,''' 'Pp''''''"
Sn,n. go atl u rt w. La, ,, .h
nersexnronco =" ., obonJ Am nsn sS ua,,ind
Guite Yrarolv ,hst Tho sardam bnT heon =
iifc sosaa tn om T., n,ous tSe @ n"u r,. penn
Sho ,,s ;,o. Nv, M ~ nv, tn;i' Tne rssPIss S,,
,notbSr W"s "s' oN' rot.h,o s' und her
fatber ,n"s,"r &c h;s ,nnra".s anu Hei
tion rotbnr tLon o,,;Jort that naiioj
everything INV svan th" I;r;n, IL, inv rnn,,,
tohic SIC so;i ,,,. n m;,, .hn IL, "n.
Sawo h,s,. Mv Su'u .'a. us sLl SUE aiu III.
less n room hnt ~. un rdon 10, thot ha, haen
n waste md rouvb sionc nn Tho haci .Io ,ot "'.s
given ,ntn ber Eccning oni octn"wloIood T%o ro
hs hers Sha sott - "" os no omI,, ,n,no ~
ercen, hor H.. "f ;o,co,wr w"' onI % S fa LILLE LILLE
nnd hcr cIotbos +bnt shs nm.noL n".,i J'. o%s
was over thirty md tbot IL msont m".., arorx. r.
thing to be. ho,h 1 nS ma" n"ssn.sinn orS ~ os
sisted tbat IL Ind s"ued hnr from ho;na nm nm
old maid Sb" Ind workcd omt a." ,Sonw nv
rcnressions md vorI,o,, IL, So ,,.nr hir nn,n
Portable reaIizaions as sbs dnr t and vs, dcIvod
there. She affirmed tbot If she had rnade
the g,rdan tha e"r,am i"' 1 Sne mma ntbe the
compti,nen, nv v"I ral,nn i hon re' fe'"f''e" 'ne
- ""e avn
cO>yErI>,rs ,,,,.u :, ,.
"onu'i a s"'ue'''hs "o"'o
0 '.i', not be the pest cure that the world pro,
Woes 1or impatient ana even sick and sad
souls. know by experience that 1t is
pertect cure Tor Jaded, impatient mind
am Tor n nervous. tagged body.
The mer" jerking out OF the things that
haVe arrogatcd 10 themselves a place un.
spirit. "Out YOU 70. YOU great smoker
What business have You to eat the chill
dren' bread! All. ha You insidious. creep
ing. choking runner. come ont of this! I
to look like one of my seedlings. You have
crcpt in here under cover Of the dark Now
see here. grass. None of this. Your place
Is on the lawn. You've mistaken your W.
cation. You could not grow flower If you
lived here all summer. and YOU know it,.
It Is grent relief to speak to the in
truders in your garden that are called weeds
as you would Ike to but may not speak to
the intruders in your life that are called
enemies. Then as little by little the ground
Is cleared Of its living distractions and a
breathing space is made for the seedlings
and the sprouting perennials, the other side
of you, the protecting. grateful. hopeful side,
gets chance. Even the little seedlings that
you have to thin out TO give room for the
space have little entities in your mind and
you feel sorry for them that they are so
arbitrarily chosen not to live, and YOU
scratch about In some less crowded part of
the garden to give them a chance at the sun
and rain, to flower if they can. And the
perennials that have been winter hurt or
that have come on too fast for the reluctant