April, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
301 
In Grandmother’s Garden 
(Continued from page 241) 
our play. What does a city child do to¬ 
day without the charm of a garden? Even 
the “pin-a-poppy show” has passed away. 
One never hears of it now, but we who 
pasted the lovely bright flowers and leaves 
!on paper and covered them with glass can 
still remember the thrill experienced when 
in response to the invitation “A pin, a pin, 
a poppy show—Give me a pin and I’ll let 
you know” the wonderful show was un¬ 
covered. Then followed such gasps and 
expressions of admiration! No, the mod¬ 
ern child knows nothing of the real pleas¬ 
ure of a garden. 
Of course, we must have done damage 
to many things in Grandmother’s garden, 
but if we did she was kind enough to 
overlook it all. She must have known 
that many of the morning glory buds failed 
to open. It was such fun to take firm hold 
j of those pointed buds and pinch and hear 
them pop. 
Our playhouse was out under the apple 
trees. Never was there more wonderful 
housekeeping nor more varied and original 
meals. The garden furnished everything, 
even much of our clothing and adornment 
when we really “dressed up" for dinner. 
The lilac leaves pinned together with their 
stout stems made charming caps, belts and 
aprons. The flowers of the lilac were 
equally useful. One blossom put into 
another and another and lo! a lovely chain 
was ours. We fashioned the same thing 
from the larkspur blossoms and from the 
dandelion stems. The latter were always 
popular, since the work of making a dan¬ 
delion chain was more speedily accom¬ 
plished. We loved the dandelion curls and 
hung them over our ears, and, with fuchsia 
blossoms, or, on rare occasions, peanuts 
[(split at one end and pinched onto our 
ears) for ear rings, we felt that we were 
dressed for any swell occasion. 
Grandfather always had corn in his 
garden—the blue, sweet corn. Whenever 
I see it I recall the day when Grandmother 
entertained a very stylish city friend. It 
was in the day of the bang, and when we 
.children beheld this fashionably-dressed 
lady with a straight bang of blonde hair 
1 covering her forehead, we gazed in amaze¬ 
ment at first, and then flew to Grand¬ 
father's cornfield. The corn was just 
right for it, the silk the exact shade. It 
did not take us long to arrange it on our 
heads in an up-to-date bang; and at din¬ 
ner we appeared a little self-conscious, 
perhaps, but well satisfied with the style 
of our hair dressing. 
On our table in the playhouse, spread 
with a cloth made for our use, we served 
most remarkable meals. We had few 
dishes; but what of that, when leaves made 
adorable plates and platters and even cups 
in an emergency! Jack-in-the-pulpit flow¬ 
ers served as pitchers; little thorns from 
the thorn apple trees made splendid forks, 
and such a lot of things we found to eat! 
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