Show A LESSON IN SELF HELP we have a frion freni S lo in this city who la is dally daily setting an example which we think might be profitably followed by a areat many others he li a rich man anti and a busy buoy one two particular in which oo no doubt many would be glad to be his imitators imitator but it was wag not of the example in thene e respects that thai we speak though they both are consequences in considerable degree of the lue ids ties trait wo desired to refer to our friend la Is the owner of a good sized lot ot probably one of the old fashioned sort an acre and a quarter on which b boffl Is residence stands in one of the most moat populous loua wards of the city it Is ie not all puit able for lawn or flowers but it will raise good vegetables and fruits it well watered and cultivated every evening after downtown down town business to ia over and no doubt every morning be fore office hours begin he may be found with hoe rake or fork in hand attending to that garden the result la Is that no ne raises all that his hi family can consume in the line of spring vegetables with plenty to give with his bis compliments to his hie neighbors besides nearly enough potatoes to last him through the winter he needs to spend no money on early california vegetables and has that much more on hand band to do good in other directions and devote to other deserving enterprises this is the example which we think ought to be mire generally followed by occupants of land in this city and its surroundings there is hardly a rest resi dent who does not have control of land enough to produce all the vegetables his bis family can use there to is hardly one that does not give to chinese gardeners each season or to the greengrocery greengrocers green grocers for export to california money enough to clothe his hia children for a whole year these are men too in most instances who have no money to spare and one cause is as we have pointed out their shiftlessness and lack of management too many of them if they are day laborers imagine that when hen the six whistle blows there Is IB nothing more for them to do an hourd boura work in the iwarden would prove not only bagh ly remunerative but a healthful relaxation but they never dever think of it their wives or chi children luren overlook it too and means which they might just as an well have saved is in sent away to buy some little green stuff or delicacy for the table this paper has in the past suggested aug that unemployed but industrious men could find work in cultivating vacant lota iota and gardens belonging to other people the friend to whom we refer tells us that he waited and hoped gome some willing man would comeal come along and ask tor for the use of his br garden in ao corrance cor danoe dance with our suggestion Bugge atlon he would not only have lot let much an applicant have the land rent free but would have bought from him all the produce the family required he did not feel however to employ a gardener ear deper for the work furnished him the physical exercise Is he needed and be had a liking for it anyway he la Is dot afraid of 01 soiling his bla hands bands or bending bendl ncr ble back and he is s not soared into listless list leea inactivity and idleness by the stroke of the town clock or the shriek of the whistle this latter is the trait of his character that we consider admirable and thle is the example we claim others may follow to their gain |