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dry with the sand, cement and hydrated 
lime. 
Always keep in mind that the surface to 
which the mortar is to be applied must be 
thoroughly saturated with water, each coat 
of stucco kept moist and the final coat re- 
main moist for at least one week and longer 
if economy will permit. 
Stucco should not be troweled to a 
smooth surface. The artist painter would 
never think of smoothing the paint on his 
canvas by means of a straight-edge. Tex- 
ture and color are necessary if artistic re- 
sults are to follow. By using the sugges- 
tions outlined in the foregoing, the archi- 
tect 1s privileged to select the aggregates 
from which the stucco is made and has in 
fact as great play in the planning of color, 
tone and texture, as has the artist in mix- 
ing pigments on his palette. 
QUEEN OF THE HOLLYHOCKS 
By JANET WEED HAZARD 
PART 
HE Hollyhocks had never been half 
so many or so beautiful in Grand- 
mother’s garden as they were to- 
day. All along the side fence, where they 
stood like sentinels, around the edge of the 
walk, in front of the south bay-window, 
all about the pergola, up and down the 
grape-arbor, and even here and there in 
the vegetable patch, there they were with 
their pretty faces upturned to the sun in 
many colors and various shades. 
James was the gardener. He had been 
snipping and tying up the honeysuckle that 
grew over the porch, when Grandmother 
came out to inspect his work. 
“Dem Holly-hawks sho’ do look fine; 
we'll be a-missin’ ’em ’fore long, Miss Jo. 
I reckon the young lady be comin’ home 
right soon now?” 
“Yes, James,” said Grandmother, “I ex- 
pect her to-morrow. You must clip the 
Hollyhocks in the early morning while the 
dew is still on them. They do look well! 
I hope she will like them.” 
Just then a slight breeze stirred the 
leaves and flowers, and a tall, stately crim- 
son that grew in the bed by the porch 
touched her companion and whispered what 
James and Grandmother had said. By and 
by another breeze swept through them, car- 
rying the message from flower to flower. 
Then another, until a great gust of wind 
sent all the flowers nodding and sighing 
“So soon, so soon.” 
“We are so many and so beautiful,” said 
the first that had spoken, the tall, stately 
crimson, “we will have a carnival and let 
the Sun-God crown the prettiest our Queen 
—Queen of the Hollyhocks.” 
Then the soft summer breeze swayed 
them gently and the big golden Sun look- 
ing down kissed each one and bade her be 
happy. 
Now, when the soft summer breeze saw 
what the big golden Sun had done, he grew 
angry and said, “They shall have no 
‘Queen’. I will spoil their beauty.” 
Suddenly it grew dark and darker, until 
a few big drops came down from the 
storm-cloud above; then more and more: 
and by and by they came faster and larger 
and all the poor Hollyhocks, all but one, 
shed tears of sorrow. 
All but one that grew among the sweet 
grasses and ferns under the South bay- 
window shed tears of sorrow for fear their 
gowns would fade and they appear less 
richly dressed. 
So they wept until late in the afternoon, 
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