The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty of Room
At The Top
By
NANCY ]. MIDGET

April Fooled myself last week
for 1 assured me that / would
break into spring by producing a
column instead of finding a hum
bred excuses for not having time;
however, when / came to read the
paper, no column was there for
once again it was a mo time or
more truly, no inclination when
the time was there.
don't know about other folks
but l feel just about twice as
sleepy in spring as l do on a hot
summers day and to look out. the
window and see everything pop
ping out of the ground in all direc-
lions, much faster than | feel in
the mood for moving to keep the
popping in order, sometimes drives
me quite frantic and mentally
spinning like a top wondering
what I'll make a dash at first. OF
course the only sane thing to do
is take one job at time-that is
all one person can do anyway and
do it properly-and eventually the
pile of work will diminish some
what even if it doesn't disappear.
l started in earnest this past
week end to do some work in the
garden and on the weeds in par
ticular, also on the grass which in
sists in being where it didn't
orter be- instead Of where one
would like it to grow. Naturally l
met problem; where l wanted to
rake some weeds and cut grass,
the violets had strayed from the
bed they were placed in and as
yet 1 can't bring myself to decapi-
tate all those thriving flowers, so
the weeds will have to grow right
along until the violets die.
Speaking of violets, | came
across some jewels of information
m book 1 was reading in bed the
other night,-one of the times l
didn't want to sleep,-two-thirty to
four in the afternoon is the best
time for that. Now l will quote:
Help from the Violet"
"For him that may not slepe for
sickness, set this herb in water,
and at even let him soke well hys
fete in the water to the ANGLES.
When he goeth to bed bind of this
herbe to his temples and he shall
slepe vel by the grace of God.
Anthony Ascham (from Little
Herbal, 1907.
Well now! If anyone wants to
try this and hasn't the violets,
just come around to my house, and
some will be provided free of
charge.
Another cheering little piece of
advice for those who find count
ing sheep of little use and some
what smelly follows:
ga Bag to smell Unto"
"Take drie rose leaves, keep
them close in a glass which will
keep them sweet, then take the
powder of minis, powder of cloves
in a gross powder, and put the
same to the rose leaves, then put
all these together in a bag, and
take that to bed with you, and it
will cause you to sleep, and it is
good to smell unto at all times"
"a New Herbal, 1872"
l have strong feeling that it
might send one to sleep but if it's
taken to bed with you, might not
waking up be rather a problem-or
does one care?
Now I don't know whether the
Elizabethan Garden has a herb
garden yet but 1 do hope that the
rush of the sleepless ones to try
this remedy won't damage it. 1t
quite relaxes me to think that
there was ever time when even
the daily worker had time to toy
with such potpourri, if that is the
right term for herbal mixtures,
but there again when the daily
worker sounds like labor left
doesn't it?)-what / mean is the
swine herd, the potboy, the woods
man and what have you of those
days, had the time, from all ac-
counts and lack of plumbing, he
preferred to smell like his trade.
All this has rather exhausted me
so if my readers will excuse me,