Show Gussy Up Your Garden Gardell We almost hesitate to say spring is coming Just as assure assure sure as we do well we'll get clobbered again and have to shovel inches of spring off the sidewalks THE TilE GARDEN is more sure of spring than we are arc however and the peonies are up nearly three inches and we can tell each lilac bud Robins have come back and the other day we heard a meadow lark proclaim the end of winter We remember when spring was an invitation to lie on a grassy bank and watch clouds make pictures but that was part of childhood Now spring means get out the rake and wheelbarrow and limber up the paint brushes NATURE KNOWS spring is a time for putting on best dresses and off old and outworn garb Home Homeowners Homer r owners know spring is the time to polish windows and andrake rake lawns and get down to the business of building a l' l clean community fr Things have a way of accumulating Worn out appliances and retired automobiles dont don't go south when they are a too old for service The They just sit there in the back backyard yard waiting for someone to haul them away and give them a decent burial ITS IT'S EASIER to put up a b ard fence to wall off a patio than it is to keep the fence painted but part of being a courteous neighbor is to keep the outside of the house looking as good as the inside Or better Mrs 1 the original Mrs 1 used to tell her children it was more important to keep her front yard looking nice than to keep her living room clean because a lot more people see the front lawn than ever see the living join Om IN A WAY your yard belongs more to the community than it does to you A community is a N collection of yards and thus your yard is the community So being a good neighbor entails more than just taking a a pie over to welcome a new neighbor or tending the children when mother is sick Being a good neighbor means keeping your yard looking the way you hope the people next door to you keep their yards LITTER IS said to be the curse of affluence Imagine being rich enough to be able to throw throwaway away so much But papers and cans and soft drink straws are never neverin neverin never neverin in a landscape architects architect's plans Perhaps they should be since they are so predominant just now but they persist in arranging themselves against hedges and in gutters where they remain until removed Ladies in the community who would never be seen Mn in public without their faces painted think nothing of presenting their homes and fences with peeling paint and with baggy shrubs and lawns needing barbering and everyone everyone everyone every every- one who passes sees the unkempt home where few see seethe seethe the gussied lady of the house GUTTERS HAVE accumulated dirt and debris of months of winter It will take more than sweeping for many of them but a messy gutter in front of a house is like a lady with her slip showing Spring fever is most prevalent in April but if too many April days go by without the garden being tended there will be no flowers in summer SO ITS IT'S time to give a yawn and a stretch and a regretful glance at the grassy bank and the clouds as you wheel out the garden and painting tools But cheer up Theres There's no better way to work off the winter flab than pushing a lawn edger and if yo work outside long enough you'll get et such a lovely friends might might- thi think k youve been south cor for the wint winter er r i r r rf |