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to rest ; for water in the yard, and an open fire in a room, act like 

 magnets, drawing all congenial things to them. 



All around the house proper I have planted woodbine that 

 now reaches the roof. I trained it on heavy wire so that no 

 dampness could injure the frame house. The lattice work and 

 window boxes for the porch are home made. At the end of the 

 front walk, at either side, I have two electric light posts. I was 

 in favor with the gods, for the posts (colonial columns, eight feet 

 high) were cracked and thus unsalable at the lumber yard. They 

 were set in cement to prevent decay, painted white, and on the 



The present gateway to "Lilac Lodge. " 



top were placed two large electric light fixtures that had been dis- 

 carded and laid in the attic for years ; when lo, and behold, with 

 my lights trimmed and burning I feel like the Goddess of Liberty 

 lighting the world. 



On each side of our drive we put two slender tree trunks 

 and made an arch on which we painted "Lilac Lodge." At each 

 side we again planted the woodbine. In two years you could not 

 see the framework, and "Lilac Lodge" has to have its whiskers 

 trimmed twice a year to be readable. 



It was from this arch we cut our driveway. The cutting out 

 of the sods was by far the greatest expense of all I have had on 

 the place. We cut a circular drive ten feet wide and one hundred 

 feet long around a heart-shaped flower bed, the edge of which is 

 planted with dwarf barberry, the center being filled in with 

 shrubbery. 



