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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1915 
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may be only a curiously flat rock, 
diamond-shaped and sunk above the man¬ 
tle after the fashion of an escutcheon. 
Perhaps it will be found in some subtle, 
effective assembling of the lichened stones 
in a chimney face, or yet again in the 
graceful lines and contours of a whole 
massive pile of stone tapering to a chim¬ 
ney pot. But always there is evidence in 
the work of care and love and infinite 
painstaking. Just as the conception must 
have been the offspring of a brain in 
which the poetry and charm of hearth 
stones was paramount, so, too, the actual 
laying of each stone has been done in 
sympathy. It’s rather a pleasant thought, 
somehow, to realize that these workmen, 
unknown, unremembered, save by what 
they have left behind, have done that work 
with heart, as well as head and hand. 
The Gardening of an Impatient 
Woman 
(Continued from page 35) 
and plants. “Sulky” is the word for them 
when they are not satisfied with their 
surroundings, and so you have to study 
their whims and fancies—and the best 
way to do this is always to see how the 
great and supreme teacher Nature does 
her work. Any observant person will 
notice that the darkest green things are 
usually in moist, shady places and that 
most highly colored flowers grow better in 
the open sunlight, while the more delicate 
tinted ones require less of it. To go back 
to my ferns then—I soon saw that what 
I liked wasn't going to please them, so, as 
I realized that they must have more water 
than they had been getting under the 
overhanging eaves of the house, I deliber¬ 
ately moved them in the middle of July! 
I had sense enough to take a damp, cloudy 
morning and I put them where I was al¬ 
ready putting so much water daily—under 
that thirsty pine tree. But despite the 
watering and the shade they soon wilted 
and apparently died. I was by no means 
willing, however, to take up fifty of these 
again, so I cut off all the dead leaves about 
an inch above the ground and waited for 
results. This may sound paradoxical from 
a self-confessed impatient woman, but, 
you see, my better half had cast too many 
slurs on mv garden attempts (he being an 
expert vegetable grower) for me not to be 
put upon my mettle. I might say, in pass¬ 
ing, that he strongly objected to all these 
“weeds” of mine being so close to his 
precious corn, potatoes and beans, for fear 
their seeds would give him trouble the fol¬ 
lowing year. But I retorted that he ought 
to be glad that it was the flowers which 
were wild, and not his wife—and there 
really seemed to be no answer to that, 
from a respectable married man, at least. 
My patience was finally rewarded, for in 
less than a month tiny fronds from the 
ferns could be seen raising their dainty, 
timid heads in that arid desert, and they 
soon set about beautifying it from that 
time on. 
And now I must tell of my chef- 
d’oeuvre. I had seen with envy the at¬ 
tractive bird baths of my neighbors, for 
which they had paid anything over a ten- 
dollar bill, and I longed for one of my 
own, but had no idea of giving any such 
price. (Since then there has been one 
advertised for five dollars which looks 
very satisfactory.) The shape of many of 
these reminded me of the wooden kitchen 
chopping-bowl, so 1 purchased a new one 
for sixty cents, stained it brown — on the 
outside only — and put it on a cut-off 
mop handle on which projecting arms 
were nailed to hold it. As this article had 
no devastating seeds to broadcast, the Dis¬ 
paraging One kindly stopped his more 
important task and made it for me. I was 
a proud woman, until one hot day the 
bowl split in two with a resounding re¬ 
port, for I had forgotten to oil it thor¬ 
oughly before putting water in it. It was 
replaced by another, which had three coats 
of linsed oil soaked in twenty-four hours 
apart. This was set in a three-cornered 
plot, formed by paths, and around it that 
first year I put zinnias and marigolds, but 
in the fall I planted the perennials, which 
were to stay there permanently. And, by 
the way, I found that the birds, too, baa 
their preferences ; they do not like too high 
or too thick plants around their bathroom, 
for fear of their enemy, the cat, which 
they could not very well see under those 
circumstances. Also they must have a lit¬ 
tle runway down into the basin, as they are 
not given to diving into unknown depths 
of water. 
Some Marvels of Insect Life 
(Continued from page 37) 
nervous system occupies the lower side of 
the body, the circulatory system the upper 
side, with the alimentary system central. 
The circulatory system is of a simpler 
character than is to be found in any of the 
backboned animals. What may be termed 
as heart (it is usually known as the “dor¬ 
sal vessel”) is a series of about eight con¬ 
nected sacs extending one behind the other 
from head to tail, and opening one into the 
other by valves which permit the blood 
to flow in one direction onlv—^o’r behind 
forwards. There are no arteries or veins, 
the blood filling vacant spaces between the 
internal organs. There are valvular open¬ 
ings in the sides of the dorsal vessel as 
well as at the ends; and as the chambers 
of the vessel contract and expand in rota¬ 
tion the blood is drawn in from all parts 
and sent in a stream to the forepart, 
whence it finds its way again all over the 
body. 
The nervous system consists of a brain, 
situated above the gullet, and a double 
series of nerve-cords extending to the fur¬ 
ther extremity of the body along the lower 
surface, connecting up a large number of 
ganglia, or knots from which run nerves 
to all parts. 
The digestive system occupies the 
greater part of the body cavity and con¬ 
sists of various well-defined portions. 
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