Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-04
Montgomery Side!ights
ELSIE WHITE HAINES

1t took a few good applications
of "Stokes" liniment to get us
going on Monday - we spent a
part of the weekend spading up
the flower border = and worse of
all uprooting and resetting some
plants with roots almost down to
China. Only the encouragement
of the pair of cardinals who have
spent the winter around Hair.as'
Cottage and Toasted on our sun
flower seed and cracked corn, and
the rewly arrived pair of wrens,
kept US going. Those who observe
birds closely know how very curl
Gus they are. Wrens love to build
close to the house where Jenny can
scold the cats, dogs and any per-
son who comes too close to her
nest. Jenny and Jimmy Wren are
very much interested in the log
cabin we bought them at the Gard
en- Show, but they were SO COM
Portable in the Eeat, green cottage
on the garage last year that it is
hard for them to choose. Mean
while, they have started nests in
both boxes = Jenny will do the
choosing = wrens are among the
few birds where the female is the
boss. First time we are home all
day, we are going to list for you
the birds we see - our twenty
five years Of feeding has really
paid off. see
49,.
Sunday morning we7had Just
written the opening paragraph of
this column when there came a
knock at the door. Upon opening
it we were confronted by man of
military bearing who was family
familiar, but who we did not i'm
mediately place. eyes, this is Mrs.
Haines - but = we murmured.
"This is Christopher Columbus,
and l have just discovered Lay
tonsv;l;e," said he. The whimsy
did it = it could be no other than
the MAN of the Mountain,
George Strong of Sugar Loaf, him
self Out for drive with friends,
he had seen a sign marked Lay
tonsville," and been impelled to
come see if it were civilized, he
said. (He evidently referred to
the Fearing in which lower coun-
ty man remarked that he did not
"care who brought civilization to
the upper county.")
Imagine living in a village and
having all that open space in front
of you," said he, gazing across
William H. Fulks' field where
cattle grazed. We told him how
beautiful the locust trees that
border tie field were later in the
season, and how Mr.. Wills broth
er, Vernon Fulks, when cutting
some of them for posts had let US
mark the trees we most wanted to
see stand. Imagine anyone being
that good to you," he said. Now
that Mr.. Will owns the field, he
smiles when he speaks of the
"pesky" honeysuckle that covers
his fence, for he knows we love
that, too. Our little song sparrows
have nested in it for years. Sum-
day was chilly and cloudy - but
the sun shown for US all day be-
cause Christopher Columbus had
discovered Laytonsvil.e and liked
it!
Are people firing of drinking
beer that it is being used in so
many other ways? It has for years
lsen used in food preparation
much as is sherry - for a zestful
new flavor with veal = Bavarian
style, to add flavor to a "dippy"
salad dressing, but IL was new
one to us when several months ago,
Martha Bland, owLer of The Mode
Beauty Shop in Rockville, said it
really made soft, fine hair behave
- gives it body" she explained.
So We tried it and it does. At
first, women took the beer to their
favorite shop, but the cosmeticians,
always on the alert for something
new - took out the obnoxious odor
and the alcohol, and now one may
get beer rinse with. no hang
over. What next?
Now that the restriction pre-
venting a sheriff from succeeding
himself has been removed, we are
expecting our present sheriff,
Frank ]. Davis, TO announce his
candidacy for reelection most any
time Cnayna that TIA rnqt rictiOn