LITTLE GARDENS 



lawn trundles about his Sisyphus burden, little 

 realizes that by transforming the energy needed 

 In " shaving the whiskers off the earth," as one 

 victim described it, the defendant could get him- 

 self elected to a first-rate club or a second-rate 

 board of aldermen — in neither of which positions 

 does she wish to find him. I pushed a machine 

 over a lawn In the country one morning, and was 

 displeased to find that, hurry as I might, I could 

 not finish before breakfast. I remarked that it 

 was not a big lawn to look at, but it seemed to 

 take a long time to get around it. " I've made 

 a rough calculation of the distance it Is around 

 the lawn-mower course," observed the man who 

 had not guided the implement that day, " and I 

 find It is about five miles." Therefore, oh, 

 dames, be tender of the suburbanite, for the 

 comic papers are not. He has sorrows of which 

 you little dream. But insist on his mowing the 

 yard once in a week, at any rate. You are also 

 to provide him with a spade, a trowel, a sickle, a 

 rake, a hoe, a pair of garden shears, a sprayer 

 for insect poisons and a dibble. Perhaps you 

 do not know the dibble, and it sounds so like a 

 divvle that you may think it is something wicked, 



