Show the soapbox garden there are gardens filled with flowers that are worth their weight in gold there are gardens wt wl ere the dainty blossoms bend and nod and mow blow in such glorious profusion that you never need be told that a good sized fortune has been spent upon each brilliant row i yet I 1 know a little garden that Is better than them all hidden in the city where life utes s cross has not a crown and the joy it brings its owner Is 1 a 41 thing that s good to see the little soapbox garden here in town la in an n unpretentious courtyard it Is growing day by day A row of 0 boxes filled with earth and placed against the walland the white cords that lead up from a j them bebin cheerily to say u to the ng flowers we are a here climb up you can not fall if there theres s a white faced little cripple who ir V watches oer the plants i and waters them and sings to them and pats the soft earth down while his eyes glow with delight when each new leaf shows itself f in his little soapbox garden here in T town it boasts no priceless blossoms uch such as those we often see displayed in rich surroundings to in the florist florists window gay but out those straggly little flowers are as a dear as they can be to one who lives his life apart and plays with them all day and though the buds he gathers may be email small and over trall each one I 1 in m sure will straighten out the deepest kind of frown for the little cripple proudly picks and gives his flowers away from his little soapbox garden here heirs in town cincinnati commercial tribune |