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companionship is cheerful, will lift her out of her 

 work and worry, and body and mind will grow 

 stronger, and new life, new health, new energy 

 will come to her, and the cares and vexations that 

 made life a burden, because of the nervous strain 

 resulting from them, will " take wings and fly 

 away." Garden-work is the best possible kind 

 of medicine for overtaxed nerves. It makes 

 worn-out women over into healthy, happy 

 women. " I thank God, every day, for my gar- 

 den," one of these women wrote me, not long 

 ago. " It has given me back my health. It has 

 made me feel that life is worth living, after all. 

 I believe that I shall get so that I live in my gar- 

 den most of the time. By that I mean that 

 I shall be thinking about it and enjoying it, 

 either in recollection or anticipation, when 

 it is impossible for me to be actually in it. 

 My mind will be there in winter, and I will be 

 there in summer. Why — do you know, I did a 

 good deal more housework last year than ever 

 before, and I did it in order to find time to work 

 among my flowers. Work in the garden made 

 housework easier. Thank God for flowers, I 

 say! " 



Yes — God be thanked for flowers I 



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