March, iqii 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
183 
Union Increases Use 
By all means try it. And that is a good 
deal to say for a novelty in its second 
year! 
Turnip. The earliest turnip of good 
quality is the White Milan. There are 
several other of the white-fleshed sorts, 
but I have never found them equal in 
quality for table to the yellow sorts. Of 
these, Golden Ball (or Orange Jelly) is 
the best quality. Petrowski is a different 
and distinct sort of very early maturity 
and of especially fine quality. If you have 
room for but one sort in your home gar¬ 
den, plant this for early, and a month 
later for main crop. 
Don't fail to try some of this year’s 
novelties. Half the fun of gardening is 
in the experimenting. But when you are 
■“testing out’’ the new things in compari¬ 
son with the old, just take a few plants 
of the latter and give them the same extra 
care and attention. Be fair to the “stand¬ 
ards”—and very often they will surprise 
you fully as much as the "novelties.” 
A Man, a Woman and a Garden 
T was the Big Man who first wanted 
the garden; but it was the Little 
Woman who brought it about at last, after 
they had failed for more years than one. 
The Big Man was city bred, but the Little 
Woman had been born in the country. 
When they were first married they lived 
in a city flat, where the only garden pos¬ 
sible to them was contained in flower 
pots. They are coming back to flower 
pots again—but that part of the story 
must be told last. They were satisfied 
with the city flat until the babies came 
and then they decided that they mast live 
in the country. Since it was impossible 
for the Big Man to make a living for 
them all and do that, they compromised 
on a suburb and left the numbered houses 
and the city flats forever. 
Here the Big Man meant to have a gar¬ 
den. He cherished certain tender mem¬ 
ories of blissful weeks' which he had 
spent in the- cererntry while visiting the 
Little Woman in her home the year be¬ 
fore they were married. At that time, 
in spite of traditions to the contrary, the 
Big Man’s love affairs did not diminish 
his appetite. When he should have a gar¬ 
den of his own he hoped to raise such 
corn of his own, with such peas and egg 
plants as those he had eaten at the home 
of the Little Woman in the country. 
In the back yard of their new home in 
the suburb there was a generous expanse 
of hard-pan clay, which had been scooped 
from the cellar when the foundations of 
the new house had been dug. This the 
Big Man chose for his garden plot. For 
a week he rose at five o’clock and labori¬ 
ously turned over the clay until time to 
take the train to his business. This he 
did in secret as a surprise to the Little 
Woman. He planted it all on the same 
day with sweet corn, egg plants, tomatoes, 
cucumbers and parsnips. The Little 
Woman smiled with tender appreciation 
when he proudly displayed his garden— 
When two groups of telephone 
subscribers are joined together the 
usefulness of each telephone is 
increased. 
Take the simplest case — two 
groups, each with three subscribers. 
As separate groups there are pos¬ 
sible only six combinations—only 
six lines of communication. Unite 
these same two groups, and instead 
of only six, there will be fifteen 
lines of communication. 
No matter how the groups are 
located or how they are connected 
by exchanges, combination in¬ 
creases the usefulness of each tele¬ 
phone, it multiplies traffic, it 
expands trade. 
The increase is in accordance 
with the mathematical rule. If two 
groups of a thousand each are 
united, there will be a million more 
lines of communication. 
No one subscriber can use all of 
these increased possibilities, but 
each subscriber uses some of them. 
Many groups of telephone sub¬ 
scribers have been united in the Bell 
System to increase the usefulness or 
each telephone, and meet the pub¬ 
lic demand for universal service. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
and Associated Companies 
One Policy One System Universal Service 
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