Evening star., 1927-04-30

From the letter box ore culled the
following epistles:
Dear Sir: / have just read your
article in this evenings paper rela-
tive to flowers being stolen from ones
yard, and will say | have suffered a
similar experience. and have hit upon
the idea of covering the entire bed of
flowers with poultry wire netting
thus putting the flowers in a cage, as
it were. and since doing this have had
no more trouble.
"Some one remarked that they
couldn't see the flowers for the wire,
and / agree it does detract somewhat
from the beauty of the bed but 1
answer / would rather see them
through the wire netting. than not
at all
"Of course. if the thieves would
take the trouble, they could cut the
wire and easily get the flowers, any
how, but the unprotected blossoms
seem to be the victims. / notice.
'As you say, there are some school
children who will steal flowers TO
take to the teacher, and these may be
the thieves, for all ! know
II enjoy reading all your articles
about flowers and save every one Of
them. Hoping you will continue this
good work, | am, very truly yours, Il
flower lover, G. II. S."
X !; x
The writer of this column is con-
tinually honored by receiving letters
of such a personal nature that he hesi-
tates to print them, although he
would like to do SO. He has solved
the problem, at least to his own salts
faction, by making it a rule to use
only initials as signatures, in printing
such Of these letters from time to
time as seem to be of general interest
The following will appeal to all book
lovers:
Dear Sir; Your remarks in last
nights paper We're enjoyed by me
even more than usual, because they
reminded me of my childhood and one
of it's greatest pleasures, that of read
ing st. Nicholas. ! was brought up
in small Virginia town, not far
away, and when [ was 8 or so maga-
zines were not as commonplace as
they are today. My parents took Nc
Clure's, for what special reason I do
not know. At any rate, 1 devoured
each issue from cover to cover and
could probably have recited the en-
tire contents. After the family had
read it, the magazine was lent to the
minister's family in exchange for ST
Nicholas. / suppose the minister took
other journals, but if so, / do not re-
call them. He had a number Of bound
volumes. and | do not recall whether
it was in these or the current issues
that I read Master Skylark.' Your
mentioning it brought to my mind the
delight | had in the story and it's very
lovely pictures. l wonder if you and
| are the only people in the world
who read it? Probably those quaint
English houses, half-timbered and
placed closely together by reason of
the old, narrow streets, struck you by
reason of their unfamiliarity, as they
did me. In 1922. while on a flying trip
to York with my husband, / walked
along a street that might have
served as the model for those draw
ings, and l was instantly reminded of
Master Skylark.' | did not see STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, which, of course, would
have been the real thing.
you may be interested in another
reminiscence. In 1921 my husband
and / were motoring Tor fiivvering, to
be honesD through Ohio, and decided
to stay at Marion for the night. It was
a convenient stopping point and had
the interest of it's connection with
President Harding. The weather was
abominable it rained and rained and
rained. Marion hotels are not unduly