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H O R E BREEZE and Reminder 
May 11, 1917, 
BACKYARD GARDEN 
RapisHEs Comg Up QuicKLy AND 
LertucE NEEDS To HAVE THE 
Rows SHADED IN SUMMER. 
Lettuce and radishes should be 
among the first crops planted in the 
home garden, says the national emer- 
gency food garden commission, which 
is urging food garden planting as a 
war measure. As soon as the hard 
freezes are over and the garden can 
be worked, both crops can be set out 
immediately. Neither crop does well 
in hot weather, but both thrive in the 
cool of spring and fall. 
The usual method of planting let- 
tuce in small kitchen gardens is to 
scatter the seed. broadcast as grass 
seed is sown and then pick the leaves 
singly when they are large enough 
for use. A better piethod: however, 
is to plant head lettuce in rows, sow- 
ing the seed abundantly; when the 
plants come up thin them out until 
they are six inches or more apart. 
The rows can be as close together 
as one foot. The entire head is then 
cut for the kitchen like a cabbage. 
Because lettuce does not withstand 
heat well there must be shade for the 
plants or there will not be crisp leaves 
in summer. Shade can be provided 
by setting planks on edge along the 
south sides of the rows. For head 
lettuce a half-ounce of seed will plant 
100 feet of row. The seed should be 
planted in drills (trenches) half an 
inch deep. 
The faster radishes grow the bet- 
ter they are in flavor. Most varieties 
are rapid in growth, some being ready 
for use in two to three weeks after 
the seed is planted. To facilitate 
quick growing the soil should be light 
and thoroughly prepared for them. 
Because of their rapid maturity it is 
well not to plant the whole bed at 
once, but to make successive plantings 
every 10 days or two weeks. An 
ounce of radish seed will plant a 
row 100 feet long. Most radish seed 
are fertile, so that they can be plant- 
ed at about the distance apart the 
plants should be in the row, and have 
no thinning. This distance in the 
row may be as short as one inch. The 
seed should be planted a_ half-inch 
deep, and in a small garden the rows 
ought not to be over one foot apart.. 
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is now 10c a copy. Subscription rates 
have not changed—they will continue 
at $2 a year, $1 for 6 mos. (paid in 
advance). 
When there is progress, it is the 
result of a more and more complete 
the individual to the gen- 
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poorly painted house. 
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E. A. LANE 
MANCHESTER 
TRAINING CAMP FoR WOMEN. 
Boston university is to be convert- 
ed into a war emergency . business 
training camp for women. As soon 
perfected the. large 
building at the corner of Boylston 
and Clarendon streets, formerly oc- 
cupied by Technology, now by the 
College of Business Administration, 
will throw open its doors to young 
women who wish to enter the busi- 
ness field. Women who, now hold 
office positions will also be admitted. 
The classes will probably meet three 
late afternoons weekly. The instruc- 
tion is free. 
Secretary, la 
as plans can be 
Lawrence Davis has 
been appointed Director of War 
Emergency Courses. Secretary Davis 
foresaw the necessity for courses of 
this nature some weeks ago. As a 
result, his plans were laid before 
President Murlin of the University, 
Dean Lord of the College of Business 
Administration, Secretary of Com- 
merce Redfield, Governor McCall and 
Mavor Curley. The approval of ail 
was instantaneous. 
Any young woman sixteen years of 
or over is eligible to the course 
business training. Registration 
for the first series of lectures in office 
routine now going on. As these 
lectures will start within the next few 
weeks applicants should register 1m- 
age 
of 
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mediately. 
The lecture will be given by the di- 
rector and a special staff consisting 
of college professors, instructors and 
business men and women who have 
volunteered their services for the war 
emergency training. 
TREMONT THEATRE. 
Next Monday at the “Tremont 
Theatre, Boston, will mark the begin- 
ning of the tenth week in Boston of 
“A Tailor-Made Man” with Grant 
Mitchell and the perfect company of 
comedy players provided by Cohan 
and Harris. This comedy from the 
pen of Harry James Smith has met 
with such great success that it has 
been breaking records throughout the 
length of its run, and it bids fair to 
break more before its engagement 
terminates. It is a foregone conclu- 
sion that it cannot remain forever at 
the Tremont, so those who have been 
planning to partake of its pleasures 
are urged not to delay in the procur- . 
ing of seats. 
The news-stand price of the Breeze 
is now 10c a copy. Subscription rates 
have not changed—they will continue 
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