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Show $ S- a l. jz&i&HSkMit-sti- THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH 16 Of If re is 'J bean . I0re 'fa- h aa E, ,; from 1 e fbe i cji by ' 'n to, e to fot!. estoration of the Garden at Monticello, Thomas Jeffersons Home, Will Begin This Spring being n agreed fewest Piano Pn, ' Term.. w- 3N 8t Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. cappinj :!VeLMO Piace, St " den Club of Virginia, and Mrs. Delos Kidder. The restored Jefferson garden will include some three acres known to the committee as the east garden and will include replacement of all the trees known SCOTT WATSON WMtern Newspaper Union. SOILPHERES a new resto-tTTs- nr ration program on in Virginia. This time it is entire town, as was during Jeffersons lifetime. SEEDS 5 at Williamsburg, Plans call for long elliptical nor a plant j capital, bordered with plantings of paths, of on Adding, as was the case native wild flowers and ever- mak,E his-Colon- , James Moa at Fredericksburg, but it up uritone the less interesting is to be done at one of Lakt it at afe "great patriotic shrines of price erjca Monticello, near ce of ponds, small oval pools, the size which Jefferson carefully computed on the basis of the average annual rainfall and the amount of water which this would yield to keep his fish in fresh water. In carrying out the research it was found that Jefferson wrote in praise of the splendid ideas for garden development in a now rare volume published by Thomas Whatly in London in 1777. A copy of this volume was secured and it w'as found that the garden as executed at Monticello was described in almost minute detail, the description apparently influencing Jefferson so favorably that he adopted most of Whatlys recommendations for what was considered the ideal garden. of greens, because Jefferson was interested in determining the decorative possibilities of using wild materials which he considered more beautiful than formal arrangements usually found in the pretentious gardens of Virginia. "d --rlottesville, the home of One of the most interesting features of the restoration will be of mas Jefferson, author of the two fish the replacement of Hospii Declaration Independ ol B and third President of usa't fifUnited States. A of Pigs Saw Monticello is at restoration mPK,.ie 400 Years Ago De . of Jeffersons garden which sko io a gnye disappeared and it will rotdwli node possible through the Four hundred years ago this Alabama ; then northwestward of Garden week in Vir freeze: when more than a hundred year a herd of pigs went on a across the state of Mississippi. See America First tour. Un- In each of these sections a des;ce cseoub estates, most of which like later tourists who go because perate battle was fought with the kcarC privately owned, are opened they want to, these early tour- red men, whose teeming straw rd owners. moipif public by their ists went because they had to. village the Spaniards set afire in t0i ; but ) ie week of April 24 has been They were driven and they prob- each case (winter of aside for this event, which is ably went none too willingly. Be in the end the invaders lost in the BUN!, under the auspices of the that as it may, the record of their flames not only a collection of nd Esnden dub of Virginia, the oy from the pearls, the only riches so far obration that is sponsoring the Everglades injourney Florida to the tainable, but also most of their Jgyy oration of the Monticello gar Ozarks in Arkansas, through a ammunition, saddles, and clothEach year thousands of thousand wild and hostile miles ing, and many horses, and all but omptlj Fi i3en lovers from every part of of forest, prairie, mountain, flood, 100 of the hogs (the herd had reRAINIfrica flock to Virginia for the swamp, snow and summer heat, cently numbered 500). --len week event, when the is one of the most amazing in After a delay for build rt gardens not open to the American history. ing boats to cross the Mississippi, ? lie at any other time are In 1539 Hernando De Soto, who the expedition began a year of Y0IR had been made governor of Cuba wandering in Arkansas (perhaps pensiw so that he might use that island entering Missouri and Oklahoma, i you 3 as a base of operations in con- too), finally returning to the torily. quering and colonizing Florida, banks of the Mississippi with the :sscd, arrived in Tampa bay with nine plan of building ships to return to Cuba for reinforcements. Here vessels. On board were soldiers, 350 horses and 13 hogs, De Soto died, however (May, the latter being for the use of 1542; three years after the landthe colonists he planned to estab- ing at Tampa); and the hog herd, lish on the Florida peninsula or now increased to 700, was auc- corw eD its. I'M ii Aide America First When Soto They Toured With Herd CR re-ten-ce 1540-41- cross-countr- -- 30-d- a 600-od- d beyond. Heading northward from the De Sotos expedition bay, marched slowly onward in an amazing arc of zigzags which resulted in its touching at least seven and perhaps 11 of our present tioned off among his men, who thus ate pork much more often, but started observing religious holidays! De Sotos successor, Moscoso, at first abandoned the plan of a voyage by sea in favor of the supposedly easier land march to southern states, traversing moun- New Spain (Mexico). tains and the great Mississippi survivthe before weary river, ors, riding in boats of their own wilderness manufacture, and clad principally in the skins of wild by their owners. A small animals, were finally to reach is collected and this money 0171 safety in Mexico four years later. jis to the restoration fund of j Garden plan club. to restore Jeffersons qC Trden at Monticello came about .this way: Fiske Kimball, on early American archi-turf,- '; -- Che unearthed the original drawings, now pre the Coolidge collection Massachusetts Historical 'jt.while serving on the of the Memorial Founda-yer- s amto Thom--rso- of Monticello. n Over period of years the of Dr. Edwin Betts. professor of botany at University of Virginia, and strew lTE yisidered the foremost author-re- n I on Thomas Jefferson as a Milton L. Grigg, funs!3118 t architect; R. T. Halsey bdraW!e Metropolitan museum, New iji. rk, and Dr. Charles Moore of sry f1 .Fine Arts commission of 5i. Sil1 'aehington have been aiding Mr. -Riball put together the informa-essential for the restoration. hiCKSBue to the meticulous notes .. Sawings of every detail of .n.ma.ffersons full life and its work, by various researchers JJJ(earthed limit Jd fitted into the restoration pat-th- e committee announced oor pjjjccntly that it is now prepared po'embark n the most faithfully in for ft Curate restoration possible fflerica." in i .drawings for the garden res-AP0UL ration and the research still IT PUisential is being carried on by igg & Johnson, Charlottesville chitects. Execution of the work to be under the direction of Allen Perkins of Charlottes-;:i.Llformer president of the Gar- Char-Cesvff- le n L e, The sum- - An Amazing Sight. start of the expedition At the in Florida and Georgia, apparently on into both the Carolinas, and seemingly over the mountains to somewhere near Chattanooga, the moving column must have been an amazing sight. First came the armored cavalry in its glittering splendor; behind limped the infantry, sore alike from battles and blisters; while somewhere between or around the two scampered a squealing, reluctant treasure of pork the rapidly multiplying herd of hogs and its herders. And from the hilltops and forests along the way peered savage eyes that had never before beheld horses, or pigs, or firearms, or white skins, and that sometimes visioned the rider and his horse together as a single shining animal. Sometimes the party was well fed by friendly or frightened Ind dians; sometimes it was one such occasion, seemingly somewhere in Georgia, finally compelling apparently the first dressing and serving of pork in the present continental area of the United States (1540). Even althen, however, each man was meat of a half pound lowed only until more per day, to sustain himwere roots found, or nuts, grain, for in general the rapidly growstill being reserve of pork was infinite labor, with ing saved, for the colony that De Soto hoped eventually to found. From the Chattanooga region 1 served as historic shrines, Monticello is unique. It not only reflects the personality of the man who lived in it and loved it so much but it is a monument which Thomas Jefferson literally erected to himself. He himself selected its site a wooded peak at which he, as a young man, gazed long and often across the Rivanna river from his boyhood home at Shadwell. He determined to establish his home on the Little Mountain some day. Upon the death of his father he inherited the landed estate which lay along both sides of the Rivanna river and in 1770 he began clearing the summit and preparing for building. But there was much to do before actual construction could be begun. The whole apex of the mountain had to be removed. When this was done there was left an eliptical plane upon which the buildings were to be located. The place was named Monticello, meaning in Italian, Little Mountain. In the fall of 1770, the dwelling at Shadwell burned, so that building began in earnest at Monticello, beginning the establishment of an entirely new homestead upon this wild and almost inaccessible site. But true to his vision, the owner ignored the much easier and cheaper process of replacing the old dwelling where were still the other numerous buildings that were then essential to a plantation barns, mills, slave quarters and storage houses of many kinds. Self Made Architect At that time there were virtually no architects in the country and few skilled workers in the building crafts. So Jefferson took up the study of architecture and architectural drawing. Guided by his inherent appreciation of the essential elements of fine construction, he taught himself so well that he became his countrys outstanding architect of the period. He made vast numbers of drawings for his home and worked out the last details for every part of the structure. More than that, he selected the stone and timber used in the structure, looked after the construction of the brick and the nails made by his own servants, devised advanced and ingenious contrivances for comfort and convenience, designed the decoration of the interior and personally selected the furnishings and ornaments. He not only planned but gave personal supervision to the laying out of the various buildings on the estate, the gardens, the walks and the roadways. Though architecture was only a hobby with Jefferson, today he is acclaimed a great architect. The exterior of Monticello is in the Doric order of architecture. The interior is in the Ionic style. A portico, the full height of the house, with stone pillars and steps projects 25 feet. It is a brick mansion 100 by 100 feet, with white pillars, cornices and balustrades surmounted by a dome, standing in the midst of a lawn overlooking river, woodlands and fertile valley, with a view of mountains to the west and of long extending coastal plains to the east. Hidden Staircases. The appearance is of one story and entering the hall one is still deceived, for Jefferson disliked staircases to such an extent that he shut them all up in closets. The hall shows only a gallery on which the bedrooms open. In the dome itself Jefferson planned a billiard room, but a law was passed by the state before it was completed, forbidding the game and so it was left in an unfinished state. The wings of the house end in octagonal projections; the northern one containing the dining room, tea room and two guest rooms, the southern forming Jeffersons private suite, sitting room, library and bedroom. Under the dome on the west is the great drawing room, famous for its parquette flooring of native woods and its pillared portico. Most notable IIERNANDO DE SOTO mer was, therefore, spent in a westward trek which apparently reached halfway across northern Texas. But the approach of autumn on the seemingly limitless Texas plains sent them trudging back to the Mississippi to begin building ships. They used the shawls of the Indian women for sails, and turned into spikes and anchors their firearms, their captives chains, and such bits and stirrups as remained. The remaining hogs and most of the surviving horses were turned into meat for the voyage. After a desperate battle with hostile river Indians in their much swifter canoes, and after six weeks of feeling their way around the Texas coast, 311 hairy beings clothed and shod in deerskin and claiming once to have been Spaniards reached the shelter and welcome of a Spanish on the Panuco river the expedition apparently settlement site of modern Tampico. the near central into southwest marched half-starve- y wwmmmmm Among all the homes of great Americans which have been pre- of the architectural features of the house is the hiding away of all signs of kitchen, laundry, stable and the many workshops necessary on a plantation of that period when almost every article in daily use was manufactured on the estate by servants and slaves. The sharp declivity of the mountain made it possible to have these offices all at a lower level than the house. A tunnel from the basement y leads right and left to pavilions, used by the slaves. By this contrivance dishwashers, cooks, butlers, maids, troops of slaves with wood for fires, cans of ashes, pails of hot or cold water did their work without disturbing the tranquillity of the family and their guests. An oddity contrived by Jefferson is a dumbwaiter for hoisting wine from the cellar, with a capacity of but one bottle. Monticello, undoubtedly the finest mansion in that section of Virginia, cost its owner, according to his account books, about The ornamental stone $7,200. was brought from Philadelphia to Richmond by water and hauled from Richmond in carts. Jlsk Me Another A General Quiz Q Ruth Wyeth Spears The Questions What is the highest denomination of U. S. postage stamp now 1. used? 2. In what city is found the long- est street? a is 3. What A metaphor? simile? 4. What was the family name of of Juliet? 5. What anniversary will base- Romeo?; ball celebrate this year? 6. What is the most powerful lighthouse in the United States? 7. What is the largest flowing spring in the world? The Answers The $5 stamp is the largest. 2. Los Angeles Figueroa street 27.5 miles long. 3. Unexpressed comparison; ex1. pressed comparison. 4. Montague and Capulet. 5. Its 100th annhersary. 6. It is the lighthouse at Nave-sinN. J., which uses 9,000,000 k, candlepower. 7. Silver springs in Florida has a registered volume of flow of 801,000,000 every 24 hours and is conceded the largest flowing spring in the world. Enough waEmbroidery by Mary Ann, age nine. ter flows from it every 24 hours to t ARY ANN was named for her structions for ninety embroidery supply each person in the United 1 grandmother, who at the age stitches with many sketches show- States with five gallons each. It of nine, made an elaborate sam- ing ways to use them. You and is the only stream navigable to pler of embroidery stitches. Ev- your children may have happy its very source. eryone thought it would be nice if hours with this fascinating hand the modern Mary Ann could also work. Book 1, SEWING, for the do a bit of hand work to be framed Home Decorator, contains 48 com- And of All Things and kept. We here report, thanks plete lessons for making slipcov- Hitched to a Milk Cart ! to a series of rainy afternoons, ers, draperies, bedspreads and this was actually accomplished. many other things for the house. It was morning. Driving Mary Anns mother started the Books are 25 cents each. If you home fromearly a party was a young project with a rather large piece order both books, crazypatch leaf- chap somewhat the worse for liqe of blue gingham; a pair of em- let, reviving interest in this steering a course that would hand craft, is included uor, broidery hoops and some bdds and have puzzled a snake to follow. ends of bright six strand mercer- FREE. Address, Mrs. Spears, 210 Round the corner came a milk ized embroidery thread. Outlines S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. cart, the driver of which did all for flower designs were made by he could to get out of the drunka drawing around coins and the flowway, swerving from side to side. ers were embroidered as shown For a moment the car wavered, outline in done here. Stems were Out then it stopped abruptly. stitch and leaves in groups of the tipsy fellow. sprang straight stitches. Looking up at the other driver From the many attempts on that with a look of tremendous dignity, piece of gingham, two flower he demanded: groups had almost as much life Hi, you! Wash the idea of you Cultivate That Field I- old-tim- Uncle Phil- Saui: We and charm as the modern Mary driving that intochicated horse, Ann, age nine. These were neatly Politics offers such a tremen- huh? framed and lend a gay note at dous field in which to be bogus. each side of an old mirror. Everyone may be an idealist; NOTE: Book 1, Gifts, Novelties but none should be a zealot. A LOST and Embroidery, gives full in- - zealot is a nuisance. Let Us Add Courage TIPS to recommended five moral virtues humanity, justice, order, prudence and rectitude; none of which is likely to accomplish much without a stout heart. If one earnestly wants to be a gentleman he can be one. The rules are plain. Helping Seeds Along Thats All We Ask 'T'HE first step toward insuring Laws cannot change human of seeds is proper germination In exceptionally dry planting. weather, however, even properly planted seeds may not germinate. It is advisable in such a case to prepare the dry soil for the seed. Water freely, as though you had a crop growing. Allow the water to soak in and when the soil has good moisture content, begin your planting. You must be careful, of course, not to plant in wet, muddy soil. Excessive rainfall, on the other hand, may make the soil so moist as to cause rotting of planted seeds. If they have not germinated within a reasonable length of time after planting, a few of them should be dug up and examined. If rotting is indicated, another planting must be made. While few vegetable seeds require special treatment to assist numerous flower germination, seeds can successfully be treated, according to Gilbert Bentley, flower expert. Nick He advises as follows: the seed coat of lupin, moonflow-c- r and morning glory; remove the rough outer coating of nasturtium, momordica, castor bean and sand verbena; soak canna, lily, jobs tear and sweet pea seeds in water for 12 hours before planting. ? 'M, V' "S' ' t, 'A ' If you think all laxatlvea Confucius Crardeners ' YOUR PEP? 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