| Show me BEAM their ir care are and 49 2 3 0 4 01 4 tz 11 bo 10 gt 4 ilk 0 1 A A al N te f t e 4 V 11 A 41 the woman with a hoe CABBAGES AND A KINK KINQ dy by ELIZABETH VAN benthuysen DENT HUYSEN tho the walrus in the time hon ored verse caned called attention to tho the fact that the time had como come to speak of and lines kings the beast did not have any idea that the time would com come when there would bo be any actual relationship between tho the two now kings have como conto to know tho the value of the cabbage while tho the alue of the king has taken somewhat of a slump in the opposite direction this story deals with tit an oil king and a cabbage crop midas with mith his fund of gold croesus Croe u bus long mentioned na as a marvel of money and tile other owners of largo large kingly chests were vere but ordinary bikers compared to john D rockefeller iio ile has in ono one vault in tho the basement of the produce exchange in new york more hidden wealth than all of the old kings put together yet he tie hue bits a lively interest lu raising cabbages ills interest in this direction Is valuable to nil all of the persons in the country who have garden plots because bebau c it ie Is a lesson in the economy of apace and a tip III atom tho the richest man in the world na as to the alue ot using anery cry spare spot for raising comet ing from the soil vi IN hat he sees in new york Is equilla possible on the most remote hillside in america and it Is for this reason that I 1 am showing you a picture of tho the oil kings rings cabbage patch and telling you how the man with nith the greatest store of wealth wisely refuses to let lot a chanco chance to ralo ral 1 o even a tiny crop bo be wasted when I 1 say cabbages I 1 do not mean that the patch Is confined to this one thing it 1 Is only one of ninny trinny an of tho the garden products that can be used in a tiny space are utilized and around the edges to work in a little art along with utility lucre there are flowers the rockefeller cabbage patch la Is located in the yard of the world fit fn incus inous rockefeller at nt sixty sixth street and the fast aler new york city it Is in this remarkable institution that ahr wise wine men of set na try germs on monkeys and dog dogs so 0 that they can learn liow how to sae gave the 11 lives es of babies and grou grownups cups kanj of the greatest discoveries of deuce have been made in the big building bilut when ilien the master mastor of the million millions came along he tie saw something so methin beside the germs and the mst eric is researches oc of science in the vicinity it occurred to him that the genus had nothing to do with the yard about thi place and that no amount of bacilli could interfere with nith putting the open ground to some use so ho he ordered that the women momen and children in the congested poor neighborhood bo be given a chance to raise ege vegetables tables on the unused ard the order brought about a transformation OIL now on any day lay one may see the woman with the hoe at work 0 on n the garden that fringes the skirts ot great learning she Is not bowed by the weight of ceat urles like edward markhams famous man alth the I 1 hoe ioe shu she Is happy in tho the chance i to make male a better table for her little ones at the tile expense of a man whose millions do not prevent him from seeing little things clearly I 1 wonder it if my readers are using their available space fo for r garden purposes with na as much wisdom as the xe ey y poor of new york are doing la lit the cabbage patch of the oil king A it 1 I 7 A how not to fix your gadati Ga deti MONEY CANT MAKE A GARDEN by ELIZABETH VAN benthuysen if one had all of the money in the herld and no artistic or practical idea to go with it ho he could not produce a garden worth bile hite I 1 am truck struck with thie this f ct t while looking at some of ibe the new land landscape icare work at the rich es ta batee t ex that make the eastern coast a fairyland the T he accompanying illustration will how a case in point here Is a garden where money enough haa has two ben be n spent to buy a farm yet the figures are altie and grouped with about as much art as the man used who first put fig ores ures in a malti multiplication table regular stiff and awkward the costly bite bits of f work are jaet last uke like 0 so o many oa on a chessboard that ie Is just what one does not want better take a handful of natural rock rocks and a barrel of moss and ferns and mix the combination with a dense sense of aan geren than to waste thousand i on a echem that only holds up to pity the poverty of the mind which cannot do with much what thou panda actually accomplish with little NOTES OF THE GARDEN parsnips for winter uee abound be dug and stored before the ground freezes la in 1014 1914 the of the output of I 1 fertilizer in the united state was besl 03 cut mint for i ater uso and tie it I 1 la n small bunches bunch ej ang it la in airy alady places to dri |
