Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27

Next to whanging your car into some.
body else's car, the favortte Spring sport
is to clean up the yard.
There are as many methods of rakinI
the lawn as there are men to rake 'em
There are even more. as a matter o.
fact, for thousands Of women take theil
turn at this necessary and pleasant
duty.
Few household chores are entered into
with more spirit and gusto.
Patching the cement driveway MAY
be approached reluctantly, for no one
can ever be sure whether the new con-
crete will bind with the old.
House painting, with Us buckets Of
paint, its brushes, ladders, its poSSibili-
ties of tumbles and resulting broker
legs, Is something to cause the unwarJ
to be wary.
Cleaning up the yard in the Spring
however, Is an altogether delightful ac-
tivity, If one does not rush the matter
and takes elementary precautton against
the weather.
Now is the appointed time.
Early-bird gardeners. in fact, have
completed the task; but those who have
not yet done so will find many pleasant
days waiting for them.
are, III JIlc NANSSCe
of yard cleaners, those who rush the
season" with a vengeance, those who
seize the first real days of Spring, and
those who put of the task until as late
as possible.
The first have put up with rawly cold
DAYS, and Just what their reward will
be only they know. It ought to be, and
one may trust that it will be. consider
able, for they have endured much. Yet
the crocus has been in bloom for a
month, and when the crocus blooms, an
ambitious homeowner may begin to
clean up the yard. 1t is questionable
whether the grass seed he planted two
or three weeks ago has taken the
slightest step toward termination, but
on the other hand, nothing III has hap
pened to it; there it is in the ground, as
there it has been for half a month
ready at all times, twenty-four hours q
day, to receive the benign influences OF
slightly warmer air, sunshine, and rain
y
Those who seize the first real days
OF Spring are following the well known
Golden Mean, which enjoins modera-
ton on its followers. Moderation, In
yard cleaning, means to wait until row
Now is the appointed time. One has
not been ahead Of the season. on the
one hand, nor will one be behind It,
One will be Just right. always q
satisfactory feeling, in world roughly
to be divided into two great classes OF
men, the sneerers and others. If one
is right, one will not always be Sneered
at, even by the best sreerers. Now
there is q great satisfaction in that
Easily to 60 through the world, and
easily die-this Is the great unspoken
unwrltten wish of millions of human
beings. They ask no more of life.
Theirs Is not the temperament OF re-
former or martyr. Such crowns as
they may wear must come softly, and
will be worn gently.
He who cleans up the yard now will
be acceptable to millions of his fell
low human beings who are doing the
same thing at the same time The
fact that all are doing 1t gives each
one the strength of his convictions
He takes courage from the sight OF
his neighbor, moihng and toiling away
at the accumulation of leaves and small
debris which cutters up shruhbery at
the corners Of the houses and by the
fences, and hedges, and down in the
small hollows.
Although there Is no time like the
present. any day between now and
June will do. The grass will be grow
ing beneath the leaves, below the Win
ter mulch, whether 1t Is raked OF or