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T II E GARDEN MAGAZINE 



P K B R U A R Y , 19 18 



Learn Paragon 



Shorthand in 7 Days 



MAKE it a point of pride to learn ONE sure means of self support — 

 Shorthand. 

 Save others from worry. If you are ever thrown on your own 

 resources — Be Independent. 



Our Government and the whole business world constantly call for trained 

 shorthand writers. 



Even if you never expect to be obliged to work, here is an invaluable aid to 

 quick, clean-cut precision in transactingbusiness — your own,or anybody else's. 

 You are asked to memorize only as much as you can easily learn in 7 

 lessons, because the entire system consists of 



The Paragon Alphabet 

 Six Prefix Abbreviations 



Twenty-Six Simple Word-Signs 

 One General Rule for Contractions 



Try This Lesson Now 



sOS Him- 



Take ch. 



iry longhand lettei 

 rything but the 



,i„ / 



lo: 



downs! 



This 



the 



rub 



and there 

 Paragon symbol for 

 D. It is always written downward. 



From the longhand letter ^ 

 thiny except the upper part — the 

 will have the Paragon E o 



at the beginning of f 



r 



:-and 



Wri.t 



circle 



and 



you 



havi 



THAT IS ALL. The simple explanations and exercises are divided into seven lessons, each of which you can grasp in one 

 evening. Speed will develop pleasantly as you make daily use of your quickly acquired knowledge. 



See for yourself how perfectly simple it is. Stop right here and study the specimen lesson at the right. 

 Now you know how easy it will be for you to learn PARA- 

 GON. 



Thousands of young, ambitious men and women who have 

 a desire to be practical and who have failed to learn the old, 

 complicated forms of shorthand have learned Paragon with 

 ease. They have since become court stenographers, report- 

 ers, assistants to business heads and in many cases executives 

 of prominent concerns. Grateful letters in our files attest 

 these facts. 



These Letters are Typical 



"I learned Paragon Shorthand from the home-study 



course — the lessons alone — without any further aid what- 

 ever. At the end of a week I could write the system 



nicely. I am now using it in the Government service, 



Treasury Department, Washington, D.C." — E. C. Alley. 

 "I am getting along fine with Paragon Shorthand. It 



is all you claim for it. It is easy to write, and as for speed 



— there's no limit." — John Waller, Jr., Standard Oil 



Company, Sugar Creek, Mo. 



Paragon is used in the offices of the largest firms and cor- 

 porations in the world, such as Standard Oil Company, 

 United States Steel Corporation and the great Railway Sys- 

 tems. 



You must learn shorthand to do yourself justice and com- 

 pete with others — as a busy executive, or as a beginner in 

 business. 



Shorthand Writers Wanted 



You see Uncle Sam's appeal every day — on the screen of 

 the movies, in the newspapers, on posters, in public buildings. 

 Big business houses are looking for shorthand writers to get 

 the service they must have. Salaries are steadily advancing 

 — and yet the demand for shorthand writers has not been 

 supplied. 



Speed, Simplicity and Accuracy 



With Paragon you write with no complicated rules to re- 

 member, no "lines" to watch, no heavy and light "shading," 

 only 26 simple word signs, no confusion of meanings through 

 the old elimination of vowels. Paragon notes never get 

 "cold;" they are easy to read. 



Our New Popular Price 



Think of it. For $5 you can have a complete education in 

 shorthand, a lifelong help — for yourself, for your wife or chil- 

 dren. Exactly the same course has been taught for 15 years 

 by its inventor, personally, by mail, at his regular fee of $25. 

 Now with 7 lessons and the ingenious self-examination 

 method devised by the inventor you can learn Paragon at 

 home in seven evenings. 



You can now buy the 

 world famous 

 Paragon Shorthand 

 Course for only 



$ 



5 



Ed 



By letting the circle remain 

 and this hook stands for A. 



i hook, 



Ad. Add 



Open it will be 

 Thus / 

 the end thus </ and you 



be 



irl's name, Ada 



/& eliminate the initial and final strokes' 

 will remain which is the Paragon symbol 



for 0. 



For the longhand *77U which is made of 7 



«ikes. you use this one horizontal Stroke — 

 Therefore, r would be- Me. 



No 



contir 



the E across the M, 



D-thus ~f 

 the large c 

 (medo), 

 W omitied. 



and you will 

 e O and 

 hich is meadow, 



you will 



I. Now add 



have <f 



with the silent A and 



You now have 5 of the characters. There are only 26 in all. Then 



you memorize 26 simple word-signs, 6 prefix abbreviations and one 



rule of contractions. That is all. 



Guaranteed Satisfaction 



Send only $5 and if after three days' examination you are 

 not pleased with your investment we will refund your money 

 and pay the cost of mailing both ways. 



We reserve the privilege of withdrawing this offer without 

 notice. 



Paragon Institute Home Study Department 



119 West 40th Street New York City WM 



W^W^ T^^ DOLLARS enclosed for which send com- 



9 m ■ % / ■ m plete Paragon Shorthand Course, postage Name 



W4 I «# W4 prepaid. If not satisfied will return it in 3 



W J I j days and get my money back without R 



Address Garden Mag. 2-18 



// a problem gfows in your garden write to the Readers' Service for assistance 



{Concluded from -page 40) 



Mrs. Farmer took it upon herself to see that 

 the injunction was carried out. The blos- 

 soms were kept pinched off till June when a 

 dressing of acid phosphate and chicken manure 

 was given the plants, and in July we began 

 to pick berries. This time the Superbs did 

 better; but keeping the runners cut off helped 

 the Progressives also, so that this year too, 

 the Progressives proved to be the better berry. 



All in all we liked our everbearing straw- 

 berries even better this year. Shortcake — 

 with real whipped cream — any time Mrs. 

 Farmer felt that the rewards for the farmer's 

 life should not be left to a future existence; 

 canning and jamming and preserving straw- 

 berries throughout the whole summer, thus 

 avoiding the usual rush; and whenever we 

 drove into town we had no difficulty in dis- 

 posing of several quarts at fair prices. Then 

 too, when a tool was to be borrowed from a 

 neighbor, a quart or two of fresh ripe straw- 

 berries in August sent along with the request 

 always brought the desired tool back. 



From our experience with them, we should 

 advise planting 100 or more of the Progres- 

 sives and not bother with the Superb or the 

 Americus. The Progressive may now be had 

 at reasonable prices from most of the reliable 

 small-fruit nurseries, and there is no need of 

 paying the fancy price of a dollar a dozen or 

 anything like that price, especially if gotten 

 in lots of a hundred or more. The plants 

 need no coddling: plant them into fertile soil, 

 keep the weeds down, and don't let them runner 

 the first year. However, human nature being 

 what it is, if you can't resist the temptation 

 for more plants, it will be far better to let ten 

 or twenty plants runner to furnish the plants, 

 and the others be kept free of runners to fur- 

 nish the berries. 



Maryland. H. A. M. 



A Yellow Garden 



T LOVE yellow flowers, they are so cheerful," 

 -*- said a friend the other day. Nature 

 seems to love them, too, and is lavish with 

 her yellow blossoms, beginning with the 

 Dandelion that stars the lawns almost before 

 the snow is gone. There is but little time all 

 summer when one cannot find wild flowers 

 in yellow; and when the sun turns toward the 

 south, all the accumulated sunshine of the 

 long days bursts forth in a profusion of yel- 

 low that seems to compensate in some degree 

 for the diminishing daylight. The "57 varie- 

 ties" (more or less) of Golden Rod, mingled 

 with Spanish Needle, Rudbeckia, and Sun- 

 flowers, make gorgeous the woods and way- 

 side against the brown of grass and leaf. 



It is quite possible to have a succession of 

 yellow flowers in one's own garden, also, to 

 "make a sunshine in a shady place" all the 

 time from early March to Thanksgiving. 

 The earliest, of course, are the Crocuses, the 

 Mammoth Yellow that in sunny corners have 

 been known to bloom in February. In our 

 bed, one pushed up to see the sun on Febru- 

 ary 28th, but the sun hid behind a cloud and 

 the Crocus did not open. Snow came and 

 stayed on the ground ten days, the yellow of the 

 bud showing above the snow. On March 

 nth that bud opened wide, as fresh as if 

 just out of the ground, and was followed by 

 twenty-five blossoms the next day. Often 

 two hundred or more are open each day, mak- 

 ing the bed a bit of glory in the fresh green 

 of the lawn. 



Before the Crocuses are gone, Daffodils 

 {Continued on -page 44) 



