Evening star., 1932-09-19

Cleaning I'D the yard for Fall and
Winter is the next necessary task ioi
around Washington.
1t is a Job which many look forward
to eagerly, but which some put OIL as
long as possible.
TO the latter 1t may be said that the
Autumn cleanup Is not necessarily
arduous II 1t is gone about in routine
manner instead OF furiously.
Furiously gardening Is not neceSsar-
lily good gardening, and most often II
is not pleasant gardening.
II amateur gardening Is not good mol
pleasant, what can 1t be called but
nuisance?
Far too many people make 1t null
sance by going at the work as If theiI
very life depended upon it, when, in 999
cases out of 1000. nothing much hinges
on home gardening but a little recrea-
ton.
This. Of course, is only one way te
look at the matter From another
standpoint, something really fine de-
pends upon home gardening. This
something is the esthetic value which
the work gives, not only to ones self
but also to an entire community.
1t must not be thought for an instant
that yards must loOk IKE SNOW places
in order for this esthetic value to mani
fest itself.
There has been altogether too much
of the show" spirit In home garden
ing. ShoWmanship Is fine on the stage
and on the screen, and maybe In poll
tics.
Where showmanship is necessary, II
is good but it's introduction into the
quieter affairs of life tends to distorl
these from their true natures.
Gardening IS quiet.
There is feeling of loneliness in it
sensed in the sight of a farmer away
off in a field by spectator aboard q
train
Farming is lonely, except at certain
seasons-of harvest and the like.
Home gardening is lonely.
Every one knows that two in gar
den means some slight discord in mos
cases: an eternal pickering as to what
should be done and how to do it.
He gardens best who gardens alone
and who then calls in others for praise
or blame.
The best gardening is that which is
done out of love Of it. with some idea
of bettering the appearance both OF
ones home and ones neignporhood.
Esthetics. so applied nave their uses
but that is as far as they go in the
garden.
Little If any thought should be given
to what others may think Of ones
garden The work will speak for Itself
mostly to the sensibllitieS OF those who
do it, and such other sympathetic per-
sons as possess the powers of appre-
tiation.
There will be no spirit OF Snowman
ship in all this, but only the d2cenc.eS
OF a vel ordered life It has becOms
questionable to speak or such thing
as well ordered lives. but occasionally
some one ought to 90 II. IN order tC
show that such ideals have not van
ished.
Coca gardening is done quietly, with
out any effort to impress others. and
therefore without the pep" which
modern civilization has held desirable
in all things. But there = less noise
in a million acres Of wheatiand than
in one city block.
y 4
The Fall cleanup may be done a
little at a time, without rush and
! hurry, here a few leaves, there few
remains to be done is bound up with
falling leaves.
Many home owners wait eagerly al
year long for the advent OF Autumn
for no other reason in the world than
that they like nothing quite SO much
not even Christmas. as the raking UP
Of leaves and the burning of the same
If this is ones idea of happiness, il
is, of course, bit early as yet, but nc
matter what sort of Fall We may have
mild or cold. the surest thing is that the
leaves will begin to drop down at last
Red ones and yellow ones and brown
! ones. they will all be there, scattered
over the sidewalks. in the cutters and
all over the lawns 1t is this latte,
menace to neatneSs which the average