A garden rosary . nd culls a few of the choicest bloomsfor table decoration, misses that intimacywith her garden that comes to those whodig and delve with their own fingers and ontheir knees. It is like having an excellentgoverness for your children. She takes en-tire charge of them, and permits you tosee them every afternoon, when they areproperly bathed and dressed, and ready fora polite romp. Well-behaved children arecertainly delightful, as are fresh flowerscut and placed in appropriate vases. Butthere is an indescribable nearness ofknowledge that comes from bathing achild, cutting its fin
A garden rosary . nd culls a few of the choicest bloomsfor table decoration, misses that intimacywith her garden that comes to those whodig and delve with their own fingers and ontheir knees. It is like having an excellentgoverness for your children. She takes en-tire charge of them, and permits you tosee them every afternoon, when they areproperly bathed and dressed, and ready fora polite romp. Well-behaved children arecertainly delightful, as are fresh flowerscut and placed in appropriate vases. Butthere is an indescribable nearness ofknowledge that comes from bathing achild, cutting its finger nails, brushingits teeth, combing out its hair as fine asfloss, and pushing its funny little feetinto shoes that never seem made to holdthem. So it is with a garden, when one has 84 A GARDEN ROSARY planted each seed with loving anticipa-tion, welcomed its first appearance, wa-tered, weeded, and tilled around its roots;and finally, with triumph, cut the flowerand laid it upon the lap of the one welove the A GARDEN ROSARY 8=> August 20 would as lief spend a morningat the sewing-circle of a sub-urban town as associate to anyextent with the cosmos. It is an exceed-ingly nice flower: its foliage is feathery;its color is pretty; its form is neat. But,oh — what deadly conventionality ! When I stand by the long row of per-fectly well-planted, well-grown, and well-flowered cosmos, I am always remindedof those rows and rows of new and daintysuburban houses; with their fresh cur-tains and tamely clipped lawns and politeporches; with their hygienically screenedperambulators carefully wheeled into theshade; and with their young mistresses —in fnodest and yet stylish uniformity ofcostume — issuing forth to meet theirhusbands, arriving from town on the fiveoclock train. As a matter of fact, theyare sweet and charming — these amiableyoung couples. It is only because theirtype is so precisely and endlessly re- 86 A GARDEN ROSARY peated that one wearies of them. Perhapsif t
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