Show che of MEN IN acet I 1 al gas 4 e 11 A 33 1 ZOO r 01 0 u t r 1 I 1 owa ral t M cal r dr I 1 11 ll w OWL THEES T an old gentleman in a kansas town who has done some in the nio modeling deling artzi art zi i by ROBERT H MOULTON P F DINSMOOR ot of luh lucas kan c calls it the golden garden of i eden and d being seven even ty three years yeara old a great gr grandfather an nd father five fire times tamea a survivor of 18 battles and all 11 ot of which he treaty freely admits he be has a right to his pinion opinion adam and ele ee cain and abel the devil led and all the ill old charter member bembera of the original garden are there the done it forever in cement also alao tor for the sake it ot of variety rather than consistency more figures biblical and ad otherwise perched I 1 in concrete trees in his hia front yard and glowering down in their im ho passivity on villagers vil lagera who pass that way by day but ft ho be sedulously avoid it after dark in the center of the garden ot of eden in the midst of all this ghostly array army of eren cament t creations to la mr dumdum cabin home film a log ing house bouse built of stone from native ledges one of the two porches is ornamented with ce ment meet beer bear bottles and jugs and mugs muga as a sort art of merry jibe at kim kansas pro tuition I 1 lawa on one of the many I 1 in laid tables in the cabin home 1 la a small it one no which contains t us piece of wood over the door in the living room onto Is what the old similar gentleman calls ile a wooden sermon a r on lt it is the motto almat lie home 1 Is vi bat you make blak it 0 outside anode as aa he ha facetiously explains abe acea of his bis hed hand taking I 1 in the petrified fete fled garden 0 of eden ed are or at blona sermons it took over 43 tons or sacks of cement to make them and th the a cost so BO tar far has been oi oer er 1 I 1 oto but even at that mr DI anum declares he to tar far from being through 1 here abare is a system to everything about the place the garden garde to tho the west represents the creation and ad fall of man according to moses the tha front or north represents modern modem ci tion tani how one animal preys prays on an A an mh other a r down to the little worm there are eight cement trees from JO 30 to 40 feet high lighted with ich 20 electr tt lights for the grape arbor flag devil and rambling ma diling rose to stood on there are 13 trees from 8 to 20 0 flat feet high it all aft seems to rv represent r besent a lot of h hard it work 13 but ut mr life dinsmoor Is a philosopher it was gasn I 1 work he says hut but play work according to his theory is doing something you don t aix lahe to to do he worked for 50 60 ytm yam then he be went to playing lie he found whon when he led fed pigs pig u for play they got felt at it he fod fed them for groht he ha fed too much and they died I 1 ha Is figured among the cement wondern ideres tb aba re most i 0 st notable e 1 la fl flae a g tour four b by Y eight feet at B done in red white and blue ce 11 ment marl and ad weighing n nearly hal halt t to ton it wing 1 in the tha breeze a on ball bear inga age m malting weather vane an other odd it feature 1 li a cement pyramid on 11 which sti atran mlarry berry or are plaat planted 11 w I 1 in in ane spring tha T adf cement a at la Is about oc ou on that he never did make any money as long an aa he worked he 11 lost near ly IY everything except his wife then than he got to playing at timing farming and hla his mules and home got get to mak rk ing money for him and lila his land grew aw in value it got so valuable that a man c came a along with a checkbook and ad ran him off 1 then he smove moved d into tea town aud and it looked like he was going to dry efty rot and be made fit tor for the boyd bono yard until he took to playing again he be ift started ted hla his garden cards of eden and today he la Is fri friskier than ever the first figures figure ona a sees see on enter ing the garden or are adam and eve who stand eight feet high hands banda clasped over the tha gate gata one ona serpent Is putting A an apple 1 in eve a extended pat palm and ad another la Is being stamped to death by adam while the devil ap V pears overhead held on a limb with spear poised and malevolent male vol out eyes glaring at this world a first lovers lovera mr Din dinsmoor amoor confesses that they we were made with cement and a trw trowel soma S re A people dust don t its the tha looks ol at eve and ad their creator admits he ha does t blame there them but then lie he ex plains plain his els models were women who he passed the house and as tny son gen ar brally a 1 1 Y P passed A a s ed i in a hurry burry lie be eduldo t a f follow j j w in them a in very ry closely there are two things about the gar r Is den that the t townspeople w do not at like one I 1 la the tha all seeing eye a on a high cement polo pole which abich winks winka electrically at night as if it aare ere a solemn team warn ink ing to all who look at tt it the other has to do with the pran in opal figures figure of the garden which are mounted in trees ra re enforced by gas pip pipes very when a curious crowd feathers anther outside and ad gap gapes at the creations M mr dimon din am 0 or who I 1 loves a joke will slip lip to th the in babe 0 o cement pre presently aly the angel with the flaming sword mord p perched bed high 1 in a re ce ment meet tree will III speak peak sotto anto voce cain cain you son of a gun where Is abel to this mi angello query cal cain will give at the it twentieth century reply search ear in me kid I 1 it be darned it I 1 ihnow know thereupon hereupon the devil from his ill die bifid position will bawl out I 1 should worry this gati generally mall y makes the crowd move on especially it it a just vowing growing dark and the weird conver conversation timi is comported accompanied by the winking of t the he all unseeing seeing eie ale and a halt half in he hea thick over a aoel 1 la teller with tiling and spray to es arri gato gate 0 on top of at the pyramid or are planted touch no menota ts and when the straw berries are ripe and visitors visitor come am mr dinsmoor calls their attention to the flowers he saya say however that next spring he intends intend a to set net out milkweed in place of the flowers bowers hoping to raise strawberries kud and cream on the same sama bed |