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Show Name Your Garden I After Uncle Sam I wxmua-.r.r.-vr.vrmw.-r . . H There Is a new Idea In the U. S. School Garden Army. It's this: What aro you going to name your own llttlo plot of ground, little sister, sis-ter, If you are lucky enough to hnvo one ot your own In your own back yard? What are you going to call your potato patch, brother, you with the bright eyes that wero not so bright tho day you went down to the station sta-tion to see big brother oft with his regiment? Oh, yen, you fell In behind the soldiers sol-diers and kept fine step to the music of the band and held up your head and felt big enough and strong enough to march a thousand miles and take a million German prisoners but when he had gone and you went home and mother put her arm.t around you and laid her head upon your shoulder and asked you to help her he brave something queer happened hap-pened to your heart and you have never felt quite the same since, have ou? , And now they are beginning to tell you In school about Russia and what a rich country it Is and how much It will mean In food If the Oermans really get possession of It and at home sometimes your grown folks look pretty serious and you wonder If It could bo possible no It Isn't, and you are going to help make It impossible. You and those strong little "brown handH of yourp. You nnd your bravo heart and your loyal soul. You and your war garden that you aro cultivating for Unclo Sam. You'll have good luck with your gnrden or good success with It. There Isn't much luck In tho garden business. busi-ness. It nil Just Hlmmers down to hard work and tho right kind of caro, nnd It Is going to bo hard work too. Nothing easy about It; not n thing. You wouldn't want to bo doing something easy, would you, with blr: brother in tho Irene lies and Unclo Sam calling you to help'.' Thoro win '' "not day when ou-back ou-back ttch03 nnd you want to p- li pwlinmlng; nnd cool days whin your kres sche and you want to curl up In tho loft of the barn and road, and go out In the lot ant play baar-bll, especially If you're a catcher ant' have a perfectly gaod ou-tchcr'a mlt, and you will Ijve to otlck .to Jh-' garden and do your work, for Unci0 Sam. What aro yon going to uamo tun, llttlo sardon of .yours? I will toll you what I am squib to niuao mine nine, la so')!? ti b called Sam Drown bocsvu-o Bar-Drown Bar-Drown la n boy who uover had -i chance In his llfo till the war broko out, and then ho saw lite chance nnd tool: It, and ho In over .hero In France today fighting , for. you nnd mo and for Unclo Sam, nnd I am going to namo my llttlo garden afior him, . . What aro you going totnamo yjnir gardon? Who Is the soldier . .you know? Who Is tho ono you think of when, you hear them singing "Over Thoro," and "Tho Long, Long Trail?" J It's a long, long trail bo's follow- Ing, brave boy, a long, long, trail and tH far away from homo and those who H love him may ho follow it till it 'H turns and brings him home again. j M Home to love and shelter and friend- H ship. Home to tho old fireplace and ' the old books and the old songs at evening, and tho little brother who I' H has been so faithful to his memory i H ever since he's been gone. And In the meantime let us name t U the little garden In our own back- M yard for him, so that If there is a. j H county fair and some of our garden M truck goes on exhibition the name 1 or our particular soldier boy will be- 1 H there at the booth for every one to tfl see and remember. j M Some, little sister, you are doing- vl your part, too.and doing It faithful- fl ly whether you are tired or not: ' '1 whether you wish you could go down M town and have an ice cream soda and H f oi get that there was such a thing as a rake or hoe in the world. You. ' are the comfort of your lonely fa- M ther's heart nowadays. Where's that ' M picture of the boy In uniform? Your i, own particular soldier? hI You wouldn't take anything In tho "'H world for It, would you? How hand- tl some he Is, nnd how brave. It makes M your eyes till with tears of pride H oven to think of his name call your 'M little garden after him and write -to H him over there In tho trenches and - fT , ,H tell him about It, nnd just wait' till JH you get back his loiter In reply. Sl "Sam Drown," thnt Is' going to bo "H . tho namo of my garden. I What Is going to bo tho nnmc of H $ |