San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-04

says UuJ Whit 3 tue use ndFluD gar
den at al unless it's big enough to be
regular knockout? And says oh it'll
: be knockout all right all right, you'll
be taking the count in the first round
with the tomato bugs, and I'll be the
one to feed them their daily ration of
Par green while you're on the eight
fifteen telling the smoking-car all
about that wonderful garden Of yours
WHEN A SPADE Is A SPADE.
know how you men talk in the
smoking car, you not only cal a spade
a spade, but you give the impression
that you actually use one. That's on
account the ladies is excluded, and
can't let on how the field work is gen.
orally done by the Junior and the
cooks boy friend q 25c to one berry
a hour! No, Geo, l says, I'm not
conner let you take on all that work
for somebody else.
But Geo. by this time didn't even
hear me. He had turned a few
pages further in the catalogue, and
a big, bold red rose, not much larger
then ten ID. cabbage, was staring
him in the face. 1t was a coloured
photo, and from the size Of the bloom
any fool could see it must
of been taken through a magnify
ing-glass. But the type that reads
them catalogues, why they lose
their good sense, if any, the min
ute they see the cover of the darned
thing, and Geo. was no exception,
except in the sense lie was e1cep-
tionally susceptible.
By gollics. he hollered at once.
For the luvva tripc, lookit this
beaut, will va? We pretty near
forgot all about roses, say, Jennie,
We simply got to have some of
these! Put down the name. "The
Lord Protectus Rose, a special
variety of hardly semi-annual, late,
blooming species, four year old en-
tries from our own graft-depart-
mcnt, six dollars apiece, five dollars
for ten, four dollars for fifty, three
dollars hundred, F. o. B. Detroit"
SWEET ROSES BLOOM.
Wei, all right, says, I'll put it
down, and I guess I'd better write
out the whole thing, on account BY
the time you have give up looking
keenly at the dead brown stalks of
them roses, and lrcaking off ~
toothpick a day from them TO sec is
there any signs of life, you will of
forgotten what they are all about,
the same as you done with them
Merry Ramblers last year. Say,
dear, what kinda bugs and beetles
come free with that variety OF roses,
or doesn't the catalogue say? And I
DO they prefer arsenic or tobacco
dust rs n steady diet?
But onct again Geo. waslsL
listening. He had come to the part
Of the catalogue where they park
&c wheelbarrows, cultivators, gar.
den hose, and ETC., and pretty soon
his shopping-list begun to sound j
like one Of mine.
Listen! lie says, put down hose
we need hose. And 1 says know
we DO, especially Junior, how that
boy goes through them is a won
der, sometimes think he must use
scissors, he wears the holes out so
fast. And Geo. who wasn't listen
ing to anybody but his own self,
says, yeh, get plenty Of hose, we
sure do need it. And 1 says, all
right, what'll l order, sheer hose,
chiffon hose, or hole-pnpf? And (
Geo. says hole-proof, of course! And '
l says what colour? Nude, or plain i
black? And be says, grey, grey, Of 4
course! And I says what sizeI
And be says the largest-in twenty b
five foot lengths. |
HAIDENs HAIR COMES BOBBED e
And I says how many pair? And e.,
be gays aw cut that out. Say, Jennie, \
rider cultivator, a hand cultivator. /
And / says why a hand cultiyator, a
Thatcha conner cultivate your bands p
Tor, sleigbt Of hnnd, card-tricks or
picking pockets? h
Wait. says Geo. Order a mani n
'ure-set for the rose bushes, a throat q
ltomizer for the lilies, a curry-cornb 8
or the rice plants, and some hairpins =
or the maiden's hair ferns. And I 4
'ays why dear, that last won't be
necessary, don't you know that all the .
lew varieties of maiden's hair grows :
Ihingle-bodded nowadays? And Geo. :
lays aw, be serious, won't your About q
wo months from now you'll appre- I
.iate the thought am putting into n
his garden, and you wont hesitate to h
at the canned corn and tomatoes we K
T!ll be getting!
And ] says that's right, dear, You q
aid a moutbful, that's what III be =,
atirg sure enough IL the garden is h
he usual success! I know just how
Iard you'll work at that garden once \
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