The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
MANY OLD BELLS
 HANG IN GARDEN
California Man Has New Idea To Remind Him
 Of Travels.


 Many things went into the making of gardens before Italy taught the love ly use of stone jars and pergolAs, or England showed the beauty of green hedges and daffodils planted in grass. Gardens have been made of i"sweet herbs," melons, of roses and allies, gar lie and cabbages, says the Christian Science Monitor. There are Gardens of Lanterns in the temple inclosures of Japan, while in the mission gardens of early Cali fornia there was little else save a cac- tus or SO. an olive tree perhaps and occasionally a rose of Castile brought over tenderly from Spain.
 In California today there is a new kind of garden, garden of bells. On the roof of the cloister wing, which forms terrace, as it were, against the main building of the Mission inn, Riverside, hangs the finest collection of bells in the world. These old bells have been collected by the master of the inn, Frank A. Miller.
 Bells of Many Lands
 A student could easily trace the en- tire history of bell founding by an ex- animation of the hundreds of bells. In series of arches rising from one side Ot this garden, hang wonderful bells from many lands all woven together in charming way by a morning glory vine which springs from the ground far below and which sends out hundreds of delicate blue bells, fresh every morn- ing, to greet the ancient bells of bronze and brass. The contrast of the age-old, solemn-looking giants with voice of thunder and the dainty silken petaled blossoms forms picture of garden beauty, rare and memorable:
 Along one end of this bell garden runs pergola of euclapytus branches, draped with iron chains from which bells of many sizes and from many lands hang like fair blossoms. From India and Persia, China, Switzerland and the dark forests of Africa came the bells. Some tinkled from the feet of dancing girls in Assam, some rung from the staff of Tibetan pilgrims. Some served in garrisons, some in tenn | ples. Each has a history and the vis- itor who cares may read the life story of each, printed upon a card beside it. Here rests a bell from San Bias, which inspired the beautiful poem by Long fellow. Over there is a ships bell! which was raised from the bottom of the sea, where it lay for nearly half century, for it went down with a transport sent out from Boston in 1775. conveying hundreds of Acadians from Nova Scotia, who were seeking a new home in Maryland and the Carolinas.
 An Appeal to Imagination Some of the most beautiful gardens of England have depended upon vari- ous plants which blossom in spires, as phlox and delphinium or which carry tall stalk of bells, as foxglove and campania. Thehe flowers, to anyone with imagination, send the fancy upon fair voyages to towers of ancient chiy- airy. This ability to touch the imagi- nation or to awaken memory is one of the finest qualities of garden. The Japanese always make two gardens, one to be enjoyed with the eye, the other the imagination. The foreigner sees only the decorative grouping of twisted tree and stone lantern, a plot of reeds near sandy shore, but the Japanese see Tn such an arrangement legend and history.
 In MT. Miller's Garden of Bells, the imagination has full sway for some of the bells have called to var, some to the marriage feast. A camel bell from Egypt conjures a desert caravan facing the rising sun, another tells of pilgrims toiling across Himalayan snows. On one chain hangs a con Jurors rattle from Salem and a devil chaser" from China. And there are bells of curious shapes, a pair of hands. the mouth of frog or crocodile, a rus tlc maiden with full skirt whose feet form clapper, lotus flower, a pagoda or dragon.
 In one. corner stands bell beloved by Father Damien, for it went with him to far Molokai. Near it is the rail road gong which sounded in Riverside when the first train came to carry sweet oranges to the east. Neighbor- ing It IS very old Christian bell bear ing Tn Latin the legend "Quintus and Salvador made me in the year of our Lord !247. A huge bell shaped like bowl claims an age of 1,509 years ana for centuries was struck by a heavy mallet swung from the hands of priests, at midnight, in the temple of AenKo. If touched ever so lightly it will chant in low voice.
 ocatS For Contemplation
 There are seats of marble here and there as in gardens made with flow CTS where one may sit and enjoy the pleasant vistas made by rows of palms ana yuccas, aloes and cactus planted Tn stone and wooden jars. Against a wall IS fountain of Moorish tile of gay colors. Among the most attractive features of the garden as a whole is a desert plant called ''The Candle of Our Lord, which sends up a straight shaft fifteen feet or so in height from which hundreds of white flower-bells hang, a fitting plant for a garden of bells. Coats of arms and escutcheons from Spain, tile from COrdova and Seville, set in, the walls, give color and romantic atmos- phere to the garden. Finally there are two bell towers copied from famous missions. the one from Pala at one end and one from Capistrano at the other.
 Becadse this Garden of Bells is so unusual and beautiful thousands of per sons make pilgrimage to it and so pronounced is its appeal to the imagi- nation and so lasting an impression does it leave, that it has bestowed a new name upon the inn, ''The Inn of | thu pa1IS