| Show I TABLE IN PARLOR I BEGINS TO GROW fROW RO I Spring Sunshine Brings Life Lie LieI I to Wood Enshrouded in 1 Silver Siver Paint Paint FOLIAGE ON FURNITURE Mrs Js J's s. s Tunics 1 Is s Pos Pos- ut or es-or of ln Ll Living c Table able Which huichi I Ignores lures Precedents Li Mrs James Jamos Jel Jensen I y t i on street hu has i. i u small smal table table titie ole tahle-ole one of those tables table th that lt arc are called center tables 11 lt I Is built buIl of willow and alid other othel woods enam enameled lct in iii II gold golt silver cl 1 and black nut and has a white while top with wih n painted on n it It ami I a altogether is what might be bo termed dined an ornamental oi and otherwise otherwise other other- ol cl wise desirable sort ol of a a table to own Now No the lie fact that Mrs possesses pos hios- C lS such Huch a table aWe Is not startling Quite a u few of Cf tf her neighbors u have ha c tables and there lucre are arc even a nur nUI CI of chairs s chal In the vicinity The Flue thing thing which has set tet the neighborhood neigh neigh- wondering and talking n and anu buc guessing Is the trl o behavior lor lol of this table taule Mrs I. I Jensen is Js undecided whether to admire It for foiL fO its is originality origin alt or oi censure It I tot for 01 its is disrespect ol 01 precedents In Iii a moment of absent ausent mindedness the table forgot ot that hat It was wa no longer In Ii the lie Ic leafy r and balm balmy wood where It i saw aw its is birth grew gre re up mId ami f foil fell before the the knife of or the lie man who made It Into the tabular Co form forni 11 It 1 saw sa saw the lie sun tn through Mrs AIrs Jensens Jensen's parlor window ow and ant Immediately began hegan to lo sprout pr Ut ul Begins t It to Sprout SIll The table sprouted I Yes It I did It II I began to grow buds I leaves es a and is growing growIng them thel yet yet While tn on iii th lie tho top of the lie table taule are painted leaves ICa on the thc man many and amid vori oll limbs f the same mine n J arc leaf buds of a beautiful soft down cown green r cl In 11 strange e contrast tr to tn tolie the lie colors put on with wih a hogs hair hogs hal brush blush The Tho The man man who built that table ou out In lii ham must feel eel cheap when he lie hI hears hlOI's of this his He lie cut tho those c bi from froni the hue willow trees last laM spring and took tooJi them home He lie Il cut tt them t m Into lute i small mal lengths nailed them together I and thought he hI had a cinch on the thc I table tAule lie Ill SIll cat that hat gold and silver i paint on UI and gave ga old Mol loU er Ct Nature the thc merry unet-ry ha hu ha lia lIe He thought he hud had beaten m her hel at nt her hel own 1 Jam Natures Nature's tints of green green It rt It was to smile now that gold enamel was art art It It cost a n quarter a pot io it Il did ld Gee but ut that man was proud Probably when Mr II Jen Jensen cn bough lh the lie table for fot- his wife lie he was no nol thinking much ab about ul nature eIther cither Because that lint table tabie was wa not al looking Some Seine people other thin than the theman h man maui who made it It would say a it wa was no noa a artistic al 1001 looking Ir Mrs Jensen said ahl shwas sh shwas h was not stuck suck upon It herself as ai nr object of art Nature Rebels g 4 ll Io Art Old Old- who Nature l' l who who ehl doo Jib iio aunts a na t a rue to sl u uH hel hiro hice-hiro l ru Ol the i f th thie provid provided ed h he lid N is all artist did t not lII like the th work of or the he willow carver cal from from rom ll Bing ng I ham Ill Ill I'll show how him she ald said a in she straightway h t tVa Va wen went t to work Sh h did 11 not do tie anything sensational al sIn did not tr try to throw a root through Mrs drs Jensen's Jensens carpet Oh no SIn SIH just jUd gathered a n little HUll moisture that lint ha lia been stored In the he w willow ill 0 bark foi lou emergencies P Perhaps she attracted n l little of the humidity of the room foi fot her hor purpose e. e Then she borrowed 1 alithe u a lithe of or the sunlight as it came cain through the he window ow Then she he did something else that lint thi tho th wisest man mali ha has never lIe been able ahle to catch her hel at und Imitate und antI pretty irett soon the lie wood thought to be lie id da-id began be ue- goon gan to stir At about six points the slit shroud of oC gold uhl antI and silver sll enamel wa iva burst s through h and little spears of green green a and crept crept out a and atud ld turned toward t. tin the j light hl Then Theil the little children n of lh hi house came JJ anti and wondered at nt the strange phenomenon arid and wondering ran and told their mother But the older people arc are not tuot so close c to 0 nature na nu- un- un lure ture as babes Mrs s. Jensen would not nol believe them at lust But hut the children soon show showed 11 her hm the lie new lIew children the c vegetable children which old Mother Moth Moth- er et Nature l had sent into that lint environment ol just to 0 teach someone a little IC lesson ln Might v Gro Moru lule Table Table- What hal will happen Is the hue ques lion of the he du duy in the family and neigh neigh- It Ii lias hns been heln sU suggested that list Mrs Mci- Ir- Ir Jensen put the lie table able In the garden and encourage e Its growth It has lias been that Pat If It l' l te c e table was wat planted and watered that It 11 might attain to 0 a n IJ growth anti and In lui the lie fullness of or une hiring bring foith fot others even like hike Itself A hat harvest of or tables It Is IJ pointed out Would he be bet better er than a harvest of or apples II Homo grown tables it lt Is said should sell sehl ell better than luau the hue manufacture article It H ly Is even cven suggested lell that hat a u little graft graft- hug Ing the lie word a n Its Itt horticultural il sense t la Is not often done lIone now no might result In lii a u bountiful ero crop crOl of or chairs In iii a ti couple of or years to 10 say sn nothing cf ct folding l I. I eds ds A Is even foreseen when tilt thi lie thrifty furniture farmer farinet would Irrl Irrigate uh the lie window ow sash patch an and trim thai the thc bureau bush while his lila bO boys 9 would weed th the clue door knob cds beds mId and water thu lie picture frame plants Mother Nature however r never ne goes t 1 tD extremes and the fie human Imagination ml may easily outrun un her a a 0 thousand or 01 more years cais when It begins to build air all tlc castles In- In Inthe n n. n the domain of might or 01 may hut But when it ft l comes down clown to tu the lie actual Nature Is th there lucre lc with tl the tho o goods OO N In n a Va sva that artists and anil artisans cannot canoot be lIc and never nl will N Nut ture tit ts Little Bu hut But t nobody ter o found und out t that Nature Nahm hud had a- a sense of humor until Nature got Jol out of ot patience nee with the crude s of ht- ht her hie material hi by h han an Au untutored work work- Iman man Then tux tux- old oltI mother thought sh slur would 1 show how us a a. ot 01 or two Thc trees trees' nodding nodding- n J just just- t. t 1 across lie road me ale Li I 10 h shaking with at tho Ito joke their senile mother and ll guardian g 1 tho lIw In know ali li humans I 1 Th The Thuc willow trees tr cs at tt ham can call h bo heard rustling ut nearly a mile away av they ther of lie hI joke which the they arc are sLit sine IC to have haive h of by Iy this hits time |
