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COLONIAL 4 N the estimation of most people, in this country at least, who take an inter est in the subject of home ornamentation by means of lawns and gar dens there is nothing more attractive and ap. - pealing than a colonial garden. That this meth od of displaying nature's bounty appeals to people who have the means and facilities.for indulging a taste for any sort of ornamental gar dening is eloquently proven 'by the fact that a colonial garden has been a conspicuous feature at the White House for a number of years past. Mrs. Roosevest had this garden laid out just south of the presidential mansion, and lim mediately under. ineath the win dows of her pri. vale apartments, and Mrs. Taft was zo Impressed with its beauty when she be came First Lady of the 'Land that she not only con. tinued the gar <len but had it ex tended and im proved. By a colonial garden is meant, It will be under. stood, the form of flower plot that was the ap. proved and ac cepted fashion in the days of our great - grandfa thers before the ryn.1 ltionary, war. In ''ny' rqppects a colo nial garden is not so very dif ferent from an equal area of C$/YiMMN OOJ/2 OWy/. flower beds of the 'average sort, inasmuch as most of the flowers that have place in a colonial garden are of the old-fashioned hardy sort. There are, however, some features of the lay-out of the flower beds that render the colonial garden distinctive, and particularly is this the case with the neatly trimmed little hedges that serve as borders for the various flower beds and in many instances supply screens and boundary markers for the ,garden. In the ease of many of the older gardens all or a portion of these hedges are formed of the richly tinted and sweet scented box. Indeed it is the presence of this shrub which is likely to <distinguish a genuine colonial garden from the newer- sort of floral setting. For be it known the box Ia very difficult to transplant successfully sonmc say impossible-and it is of very slow growth, So much. so, indeed, that a handsome hedge of box is more likely than not to represent the fruits of a century or more of care and atten tion. 'Withal the box will grow fairly well if left to Itself and only given time, but the watchful care of a gardener is requirecd if it Is desired to restrict it to certain limits, as, for instance, the borders of flower beds. 'in the days pr-eceding and following the Revo lution there wereo colonial gardens in all the thir teen original states, but the finest of these were Socated in Virginia. Nor wvas this to be won -dered at, for the 01(1 Dominion was at that time the seat of the most notable country seats in the .new world, History tells of the magnificentr tates maintained by George Washington, Thoma, Jeffer-son, Madison, Monroe and other prominent 'Virginians of that pcerled, but there wer-e dozens of other wealthy landed proprietors who, though perhjaps not nationally as prominent, lived in the same baronial style on their expansive planta tions and had the slave labor that contributed so much to the development of such estates, A co lonial garden wvas not only an Inevitable adjunct of a Virginia estate in those days of lavish liv lag, but it was In many instances the special pr-ide and hobby of the lord or mistress of the ianor' house, Now, strange to say, a surprising number of these old colonial gardens retain to this day (nuch of their old-time splendor. We say surpris ing, because it must be remembered that when the devastating tide of our great Civil war swept over Virginia it played havoc with many an an cestral estate aind it wvould be too much to expect that the gardens should not suffer as did the mansions. Furthermore, many of the old Vir ginia families have been in greatly reduced cir cumtstanrces since the war and have not had the means t(' maintain the old gardens in the man- - ner that their ancestors did. That in spite of these conditions the colonial gardens in the state )nown as "The Mother of Presidents" retain so jnuch of thsir 'ieauty and fascination is a tribute to the advantages of this form of gardening. There are some formal gardens in old1 Vir gintia, but for the most part the gardens arc what are known as informaal, or suggestive of nature's own arrangement rather than masterpieces of ,the fancy gardener's ingenuity. Only in rare in stances do we see the box or other hedge shrubs trimmed and fashioned into fantastic shapes to $1 GARDENS! 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But inamelity itrom ixpersence topise the roseit seaso above therg igrow in the favolnge ofcolnavgreen the bo0dg(-1rhp twomiinhasre tee are to so etlet ath ansoler heg foeso that they gadnwill be prcvntiito l massh ofde blom fombthein geavie of the maliaritheo hsoball anthaineda in anthn apyprcing units afdtrmte paorying ofth Vgreenius acrjcs-hei eaines the pringian vies tasatd the hd flowrysbedh. Many of the wanin sadn.lohv gii dnin ponropte podt aiony odaetll tobupin se aarese ousmoe anortherly hose, notreasmin no- f-ewo exere wnit theraidty mains the time-hedesunperhas twoeenmde ththeyntral oet prnt viirs and the garden bes hebeen aintanged arnythi aprachivot Atwe bms any of the oldte gnaVrensials avcu mains thea tihnormen daml has been made ... .............. . ... . . . .... 'VIRGINIA MNO'/A P4MTED ?T AO///yT tionai ProlinIence, it was the custom a hundred years ago or more to invite distinguished guests to plant trees, shrubs or flowers as mementoes of their visits. We see the fruits of this custom in the historic plantings which have been perpetuated at Mount Vernon-the trees planted by Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson and the rose bush planted and named for his mother by Gen. George Washing ton. It is the outgrowth of this same custom which has prompted many of our presidents and distinguished for eign visitors to plant trees in the White Hlouse grounds at Washington. Attached to the flower garden proper on many an old Virginia estate is a series of terraced beds which were used in the old days, if not at pros ent, for growing small fruits and veg 0 L- etables for the use of the household y pv . In many instances these kitchen gar //HS/// }dens weru screened w I t I box and the gravel w a I k a were neatly bor dered with the same rich-hued shrub so that the general cf feet was almost as pleasing as that of the po sey beds them selves. Not the least of the factors that go to make up the beauty of a colonial garden in Vir L BL ,,oR/iow0MU r/n. ginia is found in the stately old trees that In most every instance surround or overshadow the space allotted to flowers-the limbs trimmed to a suffileient height from the ground to allow the entrance of plenty of sunshine. Such trees are, alike to the box, only to be attained as the heritage of time and consequently they are lack ing in many a newly established garden upon which money has been expended without stint. All the summer houses, the trellis, etc., which one sees in these old Virginia gardens are of frame construction, the woodl usually being paint ed white, and the garden walls wh'ich on some estates supplement the hedges are of brick. The gardlens were established too long ago to admit of the introduction of the concrete products which have done so much for the embellishmeni. of the latter-day garden. Almost without excep tion, however, garden structures are so heavily vine clad that the material of their constr'uction makes very little dlifference in appearances. Out side the strictly tropical vegetation there are few 'lowers or trailing vines that, will not grow lux uriantly in the kindly Virginia clihpate and this fact accounts for the variety of vegetation in the old gardens. SParis Siege Bread A collector of curiosities in Boston shows with pride a piece of bread that was halted in Paris during the siege. Of course, it is now h'-der than a brick, and looks unpalatable. E~mile Bergerat, t he son-in-law of Gautler, Is writing his mlemoirs---andl the first v(.lume "Sou venirs d'un Enfant (de Par-is Los Annees deC lo heme," has just been published. R~ecollecting events of the siege he has much to say about tho bread. "I think some persons must have kept theirs, for 15 years afterward i saw pieces of brood in a glass case. I was stupeiledl for two reasons. In the fir-st place, in the severest (lays and after Jan ualsy 15, there wvas for each month only a mouse's ration, 300 grams. Trhis was utter starvation. The Parisian, as is wvell known, is a great brearl eater; lhe can deprive himself of anything else, but ordilnarily ho must have at least h-la 430 grams." IHergerat, in the secondl place, does not believe that the substance could survive the armnistico, Chemistry couldl do nolthing with it. Bert helot aS sured (Gautier that he ate the bread without vin derstanding it. "This bread was Dantesque and not to 1)e an alyzed. If I had been Jules Favre at Ferrieres, I should have simply throwvn a hiscuit on the table in front of IHismarck and said: 'Smell it. The city is yours.'" No one knew what this bread was made of, says t he Hbakers Weekly, or if anybodyv knew he did not dare to tell the secret. The animal kIng dlen supplied material after the vegetable was exhaust ed, and the mineral succeeded the a ninmai. in the bakery once kept by Bergerat's father a blacksmith forged bread. Buyers broke t he' teeth on nails. 'rho report was circulated that bones from the catacombs were at last used. A SIMPLE SYSTEM. "H ow did Brown come to be so highly esm teemed as a weat:ier prophet?". "rHy his optimism. When there Is a drotrght he keeps predicing rnIn, and when it's raining h-= says it is going to clear off," tRAP FOR RIVEP HO0 Ond'of Many Methods 'Used by Afr oan Natives ip Killing the Hippopotamus. Cape Town, Africa.-The native have various ways of killing the "rive horse." On occasion, they will attac it with harpoons, to which are a tached lines ending in floats. Th wounded beast, its position marked b these floats, will then be followed u in canoes, and finally speared to death At other times they will arrange grea pitfalls; at others, some such devic as that here illustrated. This particular method calls for th use of a strong spearhead fixed in 'Vt Killing a Hippopotamus. heavy block of wood, which is hun from a line passed over a branch of tree in the animal's path. The cor by which the spear is suspended i made to run across the path, a fel inches above the ground, and is a ranged that when the beast stumble against it the spear shall be release( to fall and strike it. Well knowing that their quarry though badly wounded, may yet tak, to the water and escape, the native attach to the wood holding the spea a long line which ends in i float; thu the great beast can always be located whether it he alive or dead. The hippopotam.us is generally ir offensive, but when pursued in boat by hunters it is subject to fits of rag and is dangerous. That the hippo i capable of being tamed and of becoin Ing much attached to man has bee proved in many instances where th animals have been kept in captivit3 The hippo appeared in the ancient 1( man spectacles and is supposed to b the behemoth referred to in the boo of Job. The hippopotamus is rapidly disal pearing from-its old haunts in Africi as Colonel Roosevelt discovered I his recent hunting tour. The flesh I highly esteemed by the natives an the fat, of which there is a thick laye immediately under the skin, is a ft vorite African delicacy and .Is know as "lakecow bacon." THE CRADLE OF METHODISil Movement Has Recently Been Startel to Preserve Barratt's Chapel in Frederica, Del. Wilnington, Del.--Darratt's chape which is located near Fredericia, Ken county, Delaware, is to Methodist what Independence hall is to Amer cans. It was in this chapel Bishop Coke and Asbury first met in Amnericm held a council with 11 preachers an arranged for the organization of th i / Barratt's Chapel. Meothodist church as it exists today Now it is prop~osed to raise an e'ndow ment fund of $50,000 and preserve for ever the cradle of Met hodismt in thi Ujnited States. D~uring the year 1'80) the chapel wa; erected on ground dlonated for tha purpose by PhilipylHarral t, a membie of the Delaware assembly, and great great-grandfather of Judge Harratt a P'hiladelphia. Philip llarratt was on of the men wh'lo entertained and prc teetc'd Asbury during the revolut ior IBecausae of its associations the chapt is held sacred by Methodists and th presuent movement, to place it. unde the care of the Church Extension sc ciety seems bound to succeed. Dead Crane Comes to Life. flake Charles, Ia.-Carrying a cran he believed to be dlead, 1 lenry Acker was walking to town from Coon crcell where ho shot the fowl, whlen it stud deniy came to life and began peekiun pieces out of Ackers' face' with it bill. It tried for Its catptor's eyes an<I nearly succeeded in get ting them. Th crane was of the sandhill variety an mneasured seven feet frrnm Mnp to UD Hoodh Sarsaparilla Cures all humors, catarrh and rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, cures paleness, nervousness, builds up the whole system. t Get it today in usual liquid form os 0 chocolated tablets called sareatabe. e It's difficult to discourage a girl who can't sing. Health is the greatest gift, content edness the best riches.-Dhamman ana. To save a nrat., give him good friends or bitter enemies; these by love and those by their hate to kee; him from evil doing.-Antisthenes. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take as candy. A Formal Garden. Knicker-Have they got a formal garden? 3ocker-Yes; no chickens allowed. DISTEMPER In all its forms among all ages of horse., as well as dogs, cured and othere in am stable prevented from having the disease with SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE. Every bottle guaranteed. Over 600000 bottles sold last year $.50 and $1.00. Iny good druggist, or send to mahufacturers. Agents wanted. Spohn A Medical Co., Speo Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. The Real Reason. "I am going to send you my little kitten to keel) you company." "How good of you." "Don't mention it. Besides, we are moving." Test of Social Standing. Old Porkenlarrd-Sh! My wife has a pearl necklace concealed in her bonnet! r Customs ns)petor- I Iilh? Old Porkenlarrd-Dlon't overlook it, that's all! She wants to get her name in the papers as a society leader! Puck. Apalling Excuse. "This is the flfth time you have been brought before me this term," said the judge, frowning severely upon the prisoner at the bar. "Yes, your honor," said the prisoner. "You know a man is Judged by the company he keeps, and I like tre be seen talkin' to your honor for the sake of me credit." "All right," said the judge. "Officer. take this ni over to the island and tell them to give him a credit of 30 s days."--lIarper's Weekly. d r SOMETHING ELSE. n t 'lho Professor-An ordinary brick will absorb a quart of water. The Pugilist-Then my brother's no brIck! The Professor--What do you mean? Theo Pugilist-Hie never absorbed that much water in his lfir. Breakfast A Pleasure when you have ~ Post Toasties with ceam A food with snap and zest that wakes up the 3 appetite. Sprinkle crisp Post Toasties over a saucer of fresh strawberries,, add some cream and a little sugar-- ~ Appetizing I Nourishing Convenient "The Memory Lingers" YA Sold by Crocers POSTUMb CEREA L CO., Ltd.,. Battle Creek, Mich.