| Show women in the garden the following sensible thoughts we find in an exchange much aluch in these damsig said about the sphere of women of the vexed question we have nothing nothing now to say the ile culture of the soil the hody body and the soul are our themes rich soils healthy bodies pure cultivated souls these are what we are aiming at and to this end we recommend that every country woman have a garden that she keep and dress with her own hands or that she supervise and manage the culture of strawberries raspberries rasp berries blackberries gooseberries goose berries currants and garden vegetables is as delightful and profitable as anything in i n which a woman can engage 0 she may sprinkle her garden well with dlo flo flowers we all the better for that A snowball in this corner a rose in that a dahlia bed there and a moss border here will not be out of place only let the substantial and useful constitute the c chief part art A bouc touch oi of the ornate like a ribbon on a good bonnet is not in the least objectionable in all the schools the girls study botany in all families the women ought 17 to practice botany it is healthful pleasing and useful the principles of horticulture are the principles of botany put into practice farmers study agriculture why should not their wives and daughters study horticulture if any employment is feminine it would seem that this is is if any is healthy healt by this must be if any is pleasure able none can be more so than this A rich bed of strawberries a bush of blackberries or currants a border of flowers produced by ones own hand what can well adford afford a more rational satisfaction we say to all our country sisters have a garden if only a small one and do your best with it plant fiant it with what pleases yoh you you best beet with a can do with it what woman cannot raise beets tomatoes melons onions lettuce and furnish her own table with them what woman cannot plant a raspberry bush lush or currant or gooseberry and tend it well come good women study your health your usefulness and happiness and your children also spring will soon be round again and we su suggest 0 to our practical young active and ambitious women that now is the time to bo be preparing for a vigorous campaign among the beds and walks the fruits and flowers odthe of the early spring gather up now and put away in some place where they will be secure from mice and where you can put your hand upon them when needed all the choice choke seeds of 0 plants and flowers that you can procure and as the planting time approaches have a spot set apart enriched and thoroughly spaded for your own cultivation the preparation of the soil spading etc of course we do not enjoin upon you unless indeed you would prefer to do that also yourself yours elf eif but the arrangement 0 the planting the hoeing boeing the irrigating the weeding etc must devolve upon you and you shall enjoy the fruits of your labors and your friends also may partake thereof and greatly rejoice with you wherefore young women of utah go forth in the season and beautify some portion of mother earth with your handiwork let the wholesome vegetables 0 and the fragrant flowers adorn your pathways and give more than indifferent attention to the spot you may choose to cultivate show what a woman can do to improve a leisure hour among the expanding 0 leaves the swelling a buds and the ripening fruits of a well weil cultivated garden ia is to us a a source of the most exquisite pleasure e to carefully watch the development of each plant of the dif dlf different derent varie varle varieties ties here loosening C the soil a little there pulling up a straggling weed yonder training 0 a honeysuckle or a morning glory that shall salute you with its fragrance at early morn ere yet you have hake fully arous aroused eel etl from slumber are pur pursuits suits at once intellectual refining and healthful but nt to fully realize all these while thus engaged fail not t to 0 cultivate the nobler sentiments of the soul quell the storm of relentless passion that may at times convulsively swell in your bosom let the calmness that pervades perva des deg nature ag as seen in her gardens and fields and beauteous landscapes landscape sj infuse its holy influence within within you leading you to look up to him tho who is the author autho of all that is created to acknowledge ledge his hand and await his provi dences |
