Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-07

! number Of persons might look into the
garden.
Expensive?
Unfortunately, yes; but most things
worth while cost money nowadays, and
we are convinced that hundreds who
seldom go out into their gardens except
to work in them would find them pleas
ant retreats. especially after the sun
goes down, II they would loosen up
for fence.
The completely fenced property not
only ends the average thoughtless tres
passing but invites to peace and re-
pose which Is rare in these days, and
Of which the average suburban resident
judging from the few persons to be
seen in their yards, knows nothing
at all.
Comfortable seats must, Of course, be
provided. Living time in the garden Is
lazy time, best INDUCED in after sup
per, during the quiet and often hot
moments as darkness comes on.
There are all too many uncomfort-
able seats, chairs and benches on the
market for the good Of gardens. Many
Of them look well enough, but were
never made for continual sitting
fault, alas. which applies to seats made
| for indoors, too!
Stone benches. while highly artistic
are vastly uncomfortable, except for a
few minutes. Rustic" and other delu-
siors in the form Of chairs are to be
avoided, except for use in emergencies
It will be seen at once that only the
really private garden Is an appropriate
place for good, comfortable seats which
cost real money.
But the material aspects Of the real
garden are perhaps of least Importance
Above and beyond them is the effect
the Enclosed place has on the mind and
spirit of the gardener.
In such whoop-a-doop days as the
present 1t may seem Impractical to talk
Of such things as mind and spirit, YET
possibly even the most frivolous persons
sometimes realize that such things really
exist
We would not say that garden is the
only place where they may be cult.
waited by no more arduous process
than plain, old-fashioned sitting
den offers mighty good place In which
to lust Sit" to think over things, tc
talk quietly and sensibly about art
music, books, trends In furniture, the
mighty deeds of Byrd, advances ir
radio, aviation.
1t undoubtedly is cooler in the oper
than on a porch even. The presen,
unfriendly season has made this plain
to every one. The only good point
about the drought seems to be that
there are fewer mosquitoes than usual
This makes sitting in the great (or
small for a garden) outdoors q better
than average proposition.
| To be free from the inroadS of stray
dogs-eVen If you like dogs-is great
deal to the man or woman who likes
peace and quiet. too. There are q
great many such persons in the world
who during the past decade have been
hammered into SUBSISTENCE by the all
pervading noise of the merry noise
makers who have taken the modern
world by storm.
Only old fogies want to sit and talk
every one should want to do things and
go places. So they say, but in another
10 years even they will and out that
they are mistaken. Then the "olo
fogies" will become heroes, prophets
and no telling what else, and be hon.
ored in their old age by those who for.
merly sneered ct them.
Is not private garden worth dream
ing about, If for no other purpose than
| indulging in such dreams? Even the
man who finds himself out Of step with
his times would willingly be in step il
he could; he Is not above the lure OF
adulation or the plaudits Of the crowd
But since he cannot he solaces himself
with dreaming of the time when his
own views will be accepted and acted
upon by the many. In such a mood he
echoes the words of the song Thank
God for q Gardeni"