Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEvELL.

| turous will attempt, The rest Of us
Will rely on paper bags alS1 great swath-
ings OF cheeSecloth, despite their gen.
eral fraility, and the bad habit they
have of flying away on the wings OF
the accompanying wind.
FROST gives a nice crunchiness tc
sWard, which Is word we like, and
which every one interested in good grass
likes. 1t Is just another word for lawn
but 1t has deriVations which make it OF
unsurpassed interest to the garden sort
OF person. The old English had ii
SWeard," meaning skin. The Dutch
saying bacon rind." The German
schWarte means bark or rind.
SO when we speak of the sward We
speak OF the skin, the bark, or rind OF
the earth, the very outer surface, as ii
were, OF all that immensely below into
which no man has yet explored, upon
Whlch only speculation has touched
we read very interesting article not
long ago on the composition of the
earth, In which all sorts of rings" OF
various compositions were described, as
best as modern science can figure them
out. II was to be understood however,
that no claim was made that these
Speculatlons were in any sense more
IMAM interesting gueSseS as to what may
lie down beneath.
IS 1t not a bit strange, since man is
Sucn. an adventuring animal, that he
mas peen content all these thousands of
years to journey only about miles
deep, at the deepest, into the great ball
upon which he lives? He has mostly
STUCK to the surface, and only in the
laSt quarter OF a century, through
agency OF the airplane. has made bold
10 leave that surface at all
All the time the earth has been be-
neath his feet, and all he had to do was
TO keep on digging.
But what an all" that is!
The practical difficulties are so great
as 10 have been inSurmountable COR
should 1t be lnsurunderable?) to date.
Our deepest mines have scarcely
scratched the bacon, rind" of the
globe.
Frost is the picturesque prelude 10
freezing. The latter merely continues
the other process, many times more
complete, but often enough invisible.
Hortlculturists say that it is not freezing
which hurts plants so much as the al
ternate freezings and thawings, which
heaVe up the roots and permit the icy
air to reach them and dry them.
1t Is the touch OF frost which changes
tAiS ASohSo ALOAiI GdI h green 10 tIle DrlgnC
yellows and reds which have so de-
lighted the children of men When one
is on an Autumn ramble and admires
the great turning leaves he should re-
call to himself that he is sharing in
one of the oldest art enthusiasts of
mankind.
Before man ever attempted to paint,
with daubs of ochre, buffaloes and the
like upon the inner walls Of his caves
he pointed to the red leaves of Fall and
said: Club! Club" Which, being
interpreted, probably means beautiful
or swell"
Chrysanthemums are among the linn
tied number of outdoor flowers which
answer to the call of frost by breaking
forth their blossoms IN due season be-
fore it is too late.
The red-barked dogwood, and the
barberries. and the poison ivy, all change
color when frost begins to dry up their
juices. Their splendid red is not ex-
celled in the Autumn landscape.
Even the oak leaves. glowing with
Falls very colors. cannot rival the great
red Of the poison Ivy leaf as it climbs
with its mates the trunk Of some great
tree.