Evening star., 1926-04-04
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BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.
a famous Greek philosopher
little chestnuts grow"

a famous Greek philosopher
~ once said Bum jokes from
"A little chestnuts grow"
4 \ And how wise he was at
wise cracks, certainly come
home to me last week. when l and
George, that's my husband, got TO
talking about our garden and what
we ouEhter pur in it this annum, both
as to amount of seeds and labor. We
was doing our Spring planting around
the parlor lamp, and we sure did il on
a grand scale. Geo. had one of them
come-on catalogues the artful and
crafty seed fellers get up regardless
OF expense, and regardless of hard
work to readers, also, and Geo. was
getting in deeper by the page and
minute.
Now Jennie, he says at the kick off,
we mustn't get too big a garden this
year, just something a nice sensible
size that we can take care of. Let's
commence with the old standbys, and
then add just a few extras, not many,
see, then we won't have more than
we can undertake without sending
for the underta ker-what have you
got down SO fer? And then l read
him off the list, and it was heavy
enough, as to sound, anyways, to
make quite a list 10 starboard.
l got down 6 Aquarium Aqua Vita.
I says. II Chloriformia Yourauuta, 10
Argentina kepublica. , doZ. pro Bono
Pubhco. Erysipilis Japonaca, u
NeuTitiS IllansWer, plain. And then
I got Boston Tea Party Lettuce, rad
iSheS, dill-pickleS and - sitting to-
matoes. l mean tomato-sets, Also ,
chickens,
And Geo. says whatter the two
chickens for? And l says didn't you
tell me to put down coupla egg
y nts? And when 1 had ducked sue
cs sfully, the book he threw having
missed me, I went on with the list.
Say, dear, l says. l wisht you would
put down some salads, we don't eat
enough green, and I'm crazy about all
kinds of salads. ever since l sub
scribed TO the Woman's Home Htnter.
Grow some field salad, please, dear,
especially. on account Mabel Bush
told me she was conner give me q
pair of ld-glasses, and I'd like to
have something appropriate to serve
in 'em.
And Geo. says all right, and how
about some chicory? And l says well,
that would be nice, but in that case
/ suppose we'd better get & canary to
eat ii. And he says well, let's have
some romaine, some asparagus and
some Waldorf-salad, put 'em down.
Also put down some beetS. And l
says what ii l put EN- down IN. vine
gar? And he says no. put 'em down
In black and white.
Now be careful dear, l says, you
are getting quite lot Of stuff, you
know. And Geo. says yeh, that's true,
but we got to have a few pole beans
I'll bet l raised the largest bean poles
in the country last year pretty near
ly hadder raise them with derrick.
Put down pole beans, hon, here's a
we'll recommended variety in the cata-
logue. No. 231177 A: Social Climbers,
a strong coarse, highly favored bean,
a quick grower, hardy vine, overruns
everything in no time, if cultivated
even slightly" Order two beans,
grille. Also write down a few par
ships.
And l says well, two of them will
be enough, also I'd rather write EN-
down then eat 'em. ParSnipS are
good for absolutely nothing except to
hold melted butter. And George says
nonsense, you don't eat enough coarse,
strong vegetables, although I admit 1t
is the butter makes them taste good,
I wish we could raise our own butter!
And l says Hot Bozo' What will 1 add
to the list for that-buttercups or
cowslps?
X X X \;
THEN George got up in wrath, and
naturally for a instant l thought
where he was looking for his gun or