Evening star., 1924-07-20

have you go there today.
No doubt you will decline.
You have previous engagement,
You are expecting company or you
have promised to take the children
to the movies. There are many rea-
sons handy when one wants to side
step an invitation. You will prob
ably sit on the back porch, take a
nap after dinner and put on your
coat and collar for a short walk when
The sun goes down. There is more
comfort and perhaps more sense in
doing those things than walking sew
eral miles to Nonesuch
Nonesuch is a historic house in
the sense that it has sheltered gem
erations of men, most Of whom you
never heard of, and is now almost a
ruin. The Rambler told you of the
place last Sunday and will tell you
more today. What you are think
ing, though you are too good ma
turcd to say it. is this:
Il am mildly interested in None
such because l knew one of the
Young family In fact, / recall that
my grandmother told me she was re-
lated to George Washington Young
ON her stepmothers side by the mar
Tiage of a third cousin who was con-
nected by marriage with the great
aunt of MIR. Young's foster sister-or
something of that kind. It's a good
story, but my interest in Nonesuch
Is not SO keen that I would walk
seven miles and brave the peril of
poison ivy, sunstroke and wild briars
10 go there. Let the Rambler do the
walking"
But on this trip to Nonesuch the
Rambler did not walk. He rode. 1t
Is necessary to write the two words
IN the preceding sentence. because
II you say you went to Nonesuch and
did not walk many readers will have
no idea how you got there A lady was
driving the car and the roadside trees
passed SO rapidly there was no time to
say Good morning, old friend Cedar"
OF How do You do, my ancient Oak"
The lady stopped the car and, point
Ing to the hem of greenery along the
road, said: Il wish you'd cut me a few
Of those green pineapples on that bal
EoAii hi- IHeS !dTe SO fragrant. / nave
bought them in flower shops"
That WHAT" said I. And she said
again: Those green pineapples on
that balsam fir
Fulmen Jovis" said 1; for / have
found that "Thunderbolt of Jupiter"
done in Latin makes as good express
sion of surprise at Goodness gra-
cIous. Ian sakes alive" or Well
L do declare"
put here we will digress The lady
is one of many devoted to ma
lure. In the city are folk who say
L Just adore nature" and nothing
is more charming than to observe
the ways of birds and study wild
flowers" Then perhaps she hands
You bunch of May-weed and says,
See these daisies I have plucked"
This lady came home one evening
she generally does-and said: The
weather is SO warm that our bridge
club has resolved itself into a nature
study club. We are very enthusiastic
on the subject and our topic today
WAS the watermelon. There was dis
cussion a to whether the watermelon
grows in salt water or in fresh water
The president of our nature club held
that it is cultivated in salt water and
| took the position that it is a fresh
water vegetable, but Mrs. Jones. who
took a college degree in biology and
read a paper. on photographic
geology before her neighborhood sci
entitic association, took issue with US.
She maintained that the watermelon
is an aquatic plant of the family
Nymphaeaceae and genus Castalia
and that it grows both in salt and
fresh water"
Well the lady stopped the car and
said: Those green pineapples on the
balsam fir. Cut the stems long"
You, too, would have been puzzled,
that is, if you had been brought up
in the country. Following her direc-
ton, I came within the shadow of a
snarled and twisted jack-pine. You
don't mean these pine cones?" Yes"
"old Jack" l said to the pine tree,
"the lady takes you for a balsam fir
and thinks that your et-smelling
green cones are little pineapples."
Don't wake her up said the old
pine tree, laughing. I'VE meet many
nature lovers from the city and we
aim to please. Take as many of my
cones as you want, but leave me
enough for seed
Now, we move along Alabama
avenue and come to a parting of the
way where the right fork is the Suit
land road and the left the Bowen
road. We follow the latter and soon
n isrht Of A. fro
whose chimney nodded to the Ram
bier last Sunday, and whose unElazed
durmcr windows stared. 1t is the
house of Noncsuch, tract name
which in different old documents and
sometimes in the. same document is
Nonesuch and None Such. In the
land Office at Annapolis is a record,
part of which follows:
by virtue of warrant granted out