1 90 ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO 



preparing itself while you have been gone, if 

 you have learned the gentle art of fireless cooking, 

 you will fit your pieces of wire screening into 

 your bowls and pitchers to make each daisy 

 stand up free and independent, just as it grew. 

 You can put some in everything you have that 

 will hold water, but always very loosely dis- 

 posed, and have plenty left to give to your neigh- 

 bors, and for a week or two your house will be a 

 bower of beauty. And if you like, and we al- 

 ways do like, by going several times you can 

 have a continuous "daisy-fest" of a month at 

 least. 



With the daisies comes vacation, and then 

 we can range farther and oftener. Now and 

 then toward the end of daisy time we happen 

 upon a lily near the daisy haunts, but to find 

 them 1 in abundance we must go across the ridge 

 and into the low fields on the western side. . And 

 how abundant they are! Dozens and scores of 

 them ! They are the gorgeous, red, spotted lilies, 

 like the tiger lilies of the garden, but brighter; 

 those that I always see when I hear "Consider 

 the lilies of the field, how they grow." 



Pick them with long stems and be careful not 

 to stain your garments with the deep brown pollen 

 that the swaying stamens will dust over you 



