walker] A GARDEN HEALTH DRIVE , 101 



Dr. G. Are you ready all? Attention! Sprayers lifted! 

 Hand-pumps filled ! Watering cans at sides ! Go ! 



[The Garden Army begins spraying everywhere]. 



Vegetables. Stop! You're killing me ! This is awful! Mercy 

 on us! 



Pests [from under the beds]. Ouch! What? Oh, I'm dying! 

 Let me out ! I can't get my breath ! Please don't you hurt ! 



[The confusion grows, then dies away until everything becomes still.] 



Dr. G. Good work, Garden Army nurses! That will do for 

 to-day. 



All [bowing politely]. Yes, Doctor! 



Dr. G. Now, farmerettes, stay until you straighten up the beds, 

 and clean up the hospital. Nurse Lady Bug, we will leave all in 

 your care. 



Nurse L. B. I'll do my best, Doctor. 



Dr. G. And then in a couple of weeks or so my army will come 

 again. Meanwhile do all you can for the patients, and good luck 

 to you! Come, my men [looking at his watch], we will have just 

 time to make the next garden before lunch. 



Costumes and Scenery for the Garden Health Drive 



Dorothy Kalb 

 Drawing Department, J. O. Wilson Normal School, Washington, D. C. 



The chief value to the children in producing The Garden Health 

 Drive is to fasten the facts in connection with the classes of garden 

 pests and how to conquer them. These are difficult facts for both 

 children and adults to remember. Vividly impressed by simple 

 costuming and the freedom from restraint that the make-believe 

 spirit gives, these facts will be difficult to forget. 



The best stage setting is out-of-doors. The garden class at 

 Cornell University, last summer gave it on a plot of ground that 

 was well covered with coarse sod, thus prodiving natural seats for 

 the audience and which had a rank growth of young sumachs and 

 locusts on two sides forming an excellent hiding place for the pests. 



Where no natural setting is available a simple conventional 

 background may be made from a roll of light wall-paper painted 

 with black show-card color to represent the palings of a garden 

 fence. In the center and at each side of this fence stand a group of 



