Show THE POSY Y WOMAN fA f- f A Sketch from Life WE had been looking for the old- old fashioned garden all summer and as we whizzed past on the street-car street that runs westward nearly to Jordan bridge the sight of a row of pink and white holy- holy hocks lining the front fence like a hedge and glimpses of feathery asparagus J gus and hardy old man inside the yard at once caught our attention j jI I I think that's it II said the flower 1 fanatic with an air of triumph Im I 1 going bac back to see II i iAn An ideal old-fashioned old garden II she exclaimed as we went into the yard yard- giving a little gasp of delight at sight of the prim beds of peonies marigolds sweet peas and other simple blooms bordering the narrow pathway flowers that grew fair when horticulture was a science known chiefly to the flowers themselves and the gardeners gardener's art was wasat wasat wasat at an end when he had set hardy roots in into to good soil There was no answer to our knock at atthe atthe atthe the front door and as we went around the house we were met by a queer little old woman who was coming to answer our rapI rapI rapI rap I thought I heard some un knockin she said panting a little from her evi evident evident dent hurry an I got here as quick as asI asI asI I could I ben out in the yard my poppies I dont don't know what's ailed em this summer they're most died out Oh land yes yes' yes I sell flowers all the time most folks calls me the posy woman Lots Lot's o 0 people come here for formy formy formy my flowers Bowers specially Decoration Day I sold most two dollars' dollars worth last Decoration and I could a sold more if the boys round here hadn't hadn t stole all my choice rowers flowers They pulled up every pink I had by the roots and my roses roses roses' oh I had some of the nicest roses Id I'd been savin em up to sell Decoration and do you know I set up till two II j ii o'clock the night before sost the boys shouldn't steal em and then after all aU when Id I'd gone to bed t they ey come into the yard and took every rose I had on the bush hush Some of em must a stayed up all night an come in as soon's they thought I J want You see Id I'd kept a light lit they'd git tired up an when I put it out I spose they give me time timeto to go off to sleep and then dim climbed bed the fence and come in Bad Its It's no name They pester me Otte to death Id I'd no more durst leave the house alone than Id I'd fly Me an father h has s to take turns goin gain to Sundays and everywhere else because we cant can't leave both the same time When my niece come corne out here on a visit from Kansas she wanted to take us out everywhere but me or him had to stay while the other went and it spoilt half the pleasure He made me go most the time He said Id I'd worked hard nough to earn it an besides she was my niece an he knowd shed she'd come out here mostly to visit with me While she was here she took me out everywhere she went paid my expense to the lake and went down downto to Pleasant Grove on the Old Folks' Folks Excursion with me an waited on me hand and foot Home here she had me go on the street-car street every time I went up town II I I told her 1 was us used d to walkin but it didn't make a beans bean's difference to her She was bound an determined I should ride The greatest girl to be fixin up thin things s you ever saw too She took my black silk dress Ive I've had sixteen sixteen six six- teen years an put some of these big sleeves in it an when I put it on you'd thought Id I'd stepped out of a fashion- fashion plate Of course I let on it was allright all allright allright right to her but I aint aiu t ever wore it yet an I dont don't knows know's I ever shall I expect Id I'd feel like a cat in a strange garret to go out in such sleeves My My dahlias Yes Ye's the they're re nice what's left of em but my you ought t come earlier when I had dahlias They're all gone now Say dont don't yo you Want ant some dill To my mind a little dill always helps to set off a boquet J I most always put in some spare grass too the green gives such a nice variety II The flowers over there by the fence They're poppies Yes Im I'm proud of my poppies but Ive I've had trouble with em all summer and m my Prince Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards too I dont don't dont know the name of that flower its it's one my neighbor next door give me I looked in Vicks Vick's Manual but I couldn't find anything about it Its It's just like a flower my mother had home that folks folks- called so I call it that Did you say you wanted some snapdragons snapdragons snapdragons snap snap- dragons Yes Ive I've got a few marigolds and but to what I had There I Ive ve give you a little of you dont don't care for them To my mind they're the flowers Ive I've got ot i imy in my garden It seems wicked to have any choice though dont don't it when the Lords Lord's made em all so I guess uess He loves em all the same or at He wouldn't a took the trouble to make em Most likely Hes He's got every kind up there too Land if I thought thought- there want any flowers hereafter an I could take my pick of places I believe Id I'd stay right here on earth where theres there's flowers Well Im I'm glad if youre you're suited with the boquet but you ought to a come t earlier in the season when I had flowers They're all gone n now now w. w 1 t Josephine Josefhine S Spencer ell er 1 i. i AIX td rl |