Show hoops and gardens whether hoops would indeed ie be a detri detriment n t to the successful performance by women women of labors in the garden we are not hot now prepared to determine our oar cof coi correspondent respondent whose comments we print on another page page decidedly seems of the opinion that they would be perhaps he imagined that having having 0 once secured her s services er ce s in the more agreeable labors of the flower and kitchen garden we would by a slight tension of our policy advise her transfer from the garden to the cornfield corn field we deny the implication in toto we do not believe in having too many irons in the fire at once oace and until we ave are completely successful in convinced convincing 0 the 11 bonnie lasses cf our mountain hame that there herc is no sphere in which a portion of their precious time can be more profitably spent than in cultivating a small spot of 0 soil we will ivill call the young womans comans garden we ave shall unconditionally tio nally demur to their receiving 0 another degree in the science of agriculture or in other words entering 6 into the field with the lords of the soil when they have made themselves proficient in the rudiments we ave as scribes well instructed ted will avill not withhold from them what their dili diligence t ence and perseverance may merit they shall then receive a a legitimate extension of their sphere of usefulness and so continue to receive if faithful and unfaltering in using 0 the various lessons from time to time imparted until they f shall hall have the brivil privilege e ge of raising not only their own vegetables 0 and flowers but also their own grain flax hemp wool pork beef and molasses with their I 1 I 1 own hands probably ere that period shall have arrived we shall be more fully informed from the actual experience of the good sisters themselves and who should be better qualified to jud judge e as to the utility of hoops in the garden it is our present private opinion that they would be quite caal coo cop As to ion lon long iong 0 sun bonnets and dress sleeves peradventure after haying having served their full apprenticeship in the ga garden gardan these with avith the hoops may he be wholly dispensed with and sunshine have free course till then the wearing of flowing 0 sleeves sleeves and 0 overflowing 0 must be admissible |