HEALTH IN THE GARDEN 



and it has to be on the alert if it succeeds in 

 opening without our being on hand to ob- 

 serve the performance. Spring begins the 

 story, summer carries it forward, and autumn 

 seems to complete it, but there is always the 

 promise of the retelling of the story another 

 year to keep us interested from the end of 

 one season to the coming of another. Garden 

 work is a sort of thousand and one days' en- 

 tertainment, in which the interest is continu- 

 ally kept up — always something to look for- 

 ward to — always something new. 



The woman who grows weary over the 

 monotony of household duties, but cannot 

 put them entirely aside, will find relaxation 

 in the garden. The change will rest her. 

 And the woman who has no household duties 

 to claim her attention needs something to 

 get interested in. Both will find the nec- 

 essary stimulus in growing flowers. 



But in order to do this it must not be 

 ^ Splayed at.'' Set about it because you mean 

 to accomplish something. A week after you 

 have begun in earnest you will find yourself 

 looking forward impatiently to the hour that 

 takes you out of doors. You will forget about 

 the gloves that you probably provided your- 

 self with at the outset. You won't be both- 

 ered with veils. Tan will have no terrors for 



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