HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
i9G 
beauty as well as utility. I carefully 
avoided kimono aprons until a misguided 
friend sent me three. During the depress¬ 
ing season of spraying I fell from grace 
in clothes and hair and manicuring. 
From my experience 1 know that a 
woman of delicate physique should not at¬ 
tempt country life on a farm unless she 
knows she can get help for her unaccus¬ 
tomed duties. Too, she must be willing 
to form new ideals of housewifery — not 
to be overfastidious about inevitable 
“tracking in.” I can't yet practice this 
preachment, especially on days when, as 
someone puts it, “I’m running a boarding 
house for hired men.” With our growing 
prosperity, those days will decrease. Al¬ 
ready we are planning to better advan¬ 
tage for my relief and John's, too. 
At first 1 felt that I couldn't wait for 
things to get in order. Now I know that 
half the fun is in doing them by degrees, 
and I have ceased to feel apologetic for 
things which must wait. After all, it's the 
looking ahead that counts. 
A visit to my old home wrought the 
cure. 1 was away from John and the or¬ 
chard for five endless weeks, and I found 
a new perspective. I had an orgy in New 
York — theaters, bridge, shops, Knox hats, 
taxicabs, automobiles, teas, tournaments — 
nothing availed to content me. I came 
home gladly, gayly, and things have 
smoothed out before my altered mood. Tt 
was life that I wanted — life on that hill¬ 
top with John Anthony! 
There are houses made for comfort, and 
houses made for style ; and there is also 
a house in California made for sunlight 
that you will enjoy reading about in the 
April House and Garden. 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
Continued from page 177) 
they turn yellow without cause the trouble 
is likely to be in the soil or on account of 
too much water. When the dripping-ofif 
fungus puts in an appearance, plenty of 
fresh air and flour of sulphur scattered 
over the surface will help to check its 
further ravages. A close temperature, a 
sudden shock or chill of any kind, or 
having the surface of the soil or the fo¬ 
liage wet. during the night when the tem¬ 
perature is likely to go down, the result of 
watering too late in the afternoon, are 
all conditions favorable to the damping- 
off disease. It attacks the stems of the 
little seedlings at the surface of the soil, 
often entirely destroying a large percent¬ 
age of them. 
The g reen aphis is another pest that may 
cause serious trouble, as it is almost the 
color of the leaves, unite small, and hides 
in the heart of the plant or on the under 
side of the leaves until it becomes nu¬ 
merous. Left unmolested for onlv a few 
days it multiplies so rapidly that it may 
get beyond control. Any condition that 
is likely to weaken the growth of the 
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