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the door, can accommodate a few herbs and turnips, 

 and such things as the mother may want to pull in 

 haste. 



The right sort of country woman is coming by and 

 by, who will do nearly all the gardening and much 

 of the fruit picking. I do not think a woman should 

 do only indoors work. Hers are by all means the 

 hardest tasks in ordinary American life in the 

 country. I pity the dragged-out housekeeper, sweep- 

 ing, dusting, washing dishes what a dreary and 

 detestable monotony of life. The coming woman 

 will help out of doors and the coming man will help 

 with the work indoors. 



But this kitchen garden fits the interlude, as work 

 is now divided. It should be half flowers and half 

 vegetables, with a corner for summer savory and 

 sage. These two are about all the herbs that we 

 need, provided only we can get a handful of celery 

 seed or of parsley seed when we want it. Perhaps 

 it might be as well to keep this corner open to a 

 few roots of parsley. I am glad to say that cara- 

 way and fennel seeds are not as much in use as for- 

 merly. In the old-fashioned days we had to nibble 

 at a bunch in church of a Sunday, during the long 

 sermons and prayers, to keep our heads from nod- 

 ding. 



However, let the woman do as she pleases; this 

 kitchen garden ought also to be full of whimsies 

 where a woman's hobbies show themselves chang- 

 ing every year if she desires. I have my hobbies 



