. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ere delicious. They were threedays earlier this year than last. AndI am glad of that, for now Mrs. Glad-wish cant feel so elated. She has hadno greens from her garden this season;and is not likely to have any for awhole week to come. Your greens surely are on time,comments Mrs. Stay-at-home in aniggardly manner. But you ought tosee our lettuce. It is heading upbetter than ever before. We have hadit on the table three times a day sincethe first of the week. It is easy to guess from t
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ere delicious. They were threedays earlier this year than last. AndI am glad of that, for now Mrs. Glad-wish cant feel so elated. She has hadno greens from her garden this season;and is not likely to have any for awhole week to come. Your greens surely are on time,comments Mrs. Stay-at-home in aniggardly manner. But you ought tosee our lettuce. It is heading upbetter than ever before. We have hadit on the table three times a day sincethe first of the week. It is easy to guess from the abovethat there is considerable rivalry amongthe residents of Ouilown to seewho can produce the earliest vege-tables. We have no formal exhibition,unless some one produces a vegetableor fruit of unusual size. Then it isplaced in the show window of theGlad TidiiM/s, which is the weeklypaper. But there is a quiet compe-tition among all of us to grow enoughof any vegetable to serve it upon thetable first. All of us are veracious(as well as voracious) and when wemake an assertion it is so. 16 THE SUBURBANITE. Lois n( Homes lite Of course, when I first came toOurtown, this talk about early beansand peas was all Greek to me. In thecity we always had beans the yeararound. Sometimes they came in cansinstead of baskets. But with me then,it was bean season whenever I toldthe grocer I wanted them for it is different. Every vegetablehas its season. And it is an unpardon-able sin to eat that vegetable out ofseason. No respected resident does so. The Man-of-affairs knew even lessabout vegetables and gardens than hiswife, if that was possible. He did notknow the difference between the greenand ripe vegetables. Even worse thanthat, he could not tell the differencebetween some common varieties ofbeans. And so our garden was tobenefit us educationally. Well, it did. Each of us selected a vegetable thatwe wished to grow in particular. TheMan-of-affairs selected potatoes, be-c
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