Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 57

1 7 JO LET AISB LEASE So yets fcnoijr that tb svost ftasiClar pa-Ltarta ba "Wwt ire 1 0fctut Jxt 111 Lai? IJawj'r an-tted under JLt? to this-part of Tim rarBTJNE; aviso complete lists of BUSINESS 01T0IITUNITIES here Is ona royal road to wealth get lnt uslness In a email way in a growing town the town will carry you up with It. lee the opportunities In Oakland, listed la pages today. VOL. LXXXVIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1917. PAGES 57 TO 68 NO.

47. Garden the Giver of Life, Writes Rose Wilder Lane 1 1 BUY-HOME" IS SWEEPING OeCDONTRY DESPITE 10 REAL ESTATE IS ACTIVE GOVERNMENT IS FIRST TO URGE OWNINGOF HOME By JOSEPH J. ROSBOROUGH, Postmaster of Oakland. -Postoftti-e Department, -through 'fin from the second Asslstant-" postmaster general, have issued the following Instructions: "As between two clerks, each having a dependent family, one owning a pecuniary Interest In his the other not, the latter will bo trans- ferred tlrst in case any changes are contemplated, and, furthermore, that between two clerks, neither having a dependent but one owning an interest in his home, the other not, the latter will transferred tlrst." This Is a direct recognition by the T'nlted States government of the i "Buy a Home Movement" and applies in the Postal Department of the Kail-way Mall Service throughout the United States. Taking the employees of the Onk-; land poctoff iceas a body, those who own their own homes, or are buying them, are found to be more efficient, reliable and trustworthy than those who are not.

They are the ones who are looking ahead and jplannlng against any future mishap. One of the saddest of our experiences as executive officers In the service Is when one of our emplnyees die leaving his dependents, In some ln-stnnces his wife, some his -mother, absolutely penniless. I'bssHily he has spent years In the service and yet has lived up to his salary to the time of his death. In cases whore those who -are pro IS SAFE POLICY, iSimonds Tells Advantages the Man Whose House His; Means Much Happiness Security in Freedom From Rents Is vPointed Out by Clergyman in His Article ByMEV. WILLIAM DAY SIMMON DS, iptop First Unitarian Church of Oakland.

Certainly. For all except floaters and irresponsi- bles. there Is no other safe and sane 'policy. Home-bwnlng tends to strengthen ievery virtue, to make the, man more Imanly and the woman more -womanly. If young people could be induced to invest wisely In a permanent home, some of the dangerous tendencies of modern society would at once disappear.

There Is every reason, personal and patriotic, ifavoring the "Buy-a-HomerFlrst movement. There is not one good reason against it. Let us go to the bat on this subject: "Buy a Home First" Is sound economy. It costs not one penny more in the end than the bad habit of renting. The renter imagines that he saves taxes and the cost of repairs.

iNothlng of the kind. All those are pro-Ivlded for in the monthly rental, as well as a profit to the owner. Besides, the renters' frequent "mbvlngs." entailing iheavy expense, often exceed reasonable interest and Taking Into Vlderatlon the habits -of Industry- and 'economy naturally developed by the process of paying for a homo and beyond iquestion it Is cheaper, as well as better nd happier, to own your own home. THE REAL HOME. J.

"Buy a Home First" promotes good lliealth and good morals. A man can -Mmav onvthltiff that In wronir flhout hlfl own place. Build- a sleeping porch, cor-irect the sewage, improve the sanitary and make such use of the lyard as taste, or necessity, requires. He idoesn't have to beg some other fellow to imake the much needed Improvements, ike is the owner, "the Lord of all he- veys." In other words, he Is a real man 01 HOME i viding for a permanent ownership In a home of their own, we find It acts as a sort of compulsory savings bank, teaching them thrift and stimulating their ambition and with a goal to reach, makes life constructive tn character. It also establishes them In the community where they live and gives them more permanency and an added hit ere In the growth and advance merit uf our city.

So Important do we consider this asset tlmt were we called upon to choose between two equally rated clerks or carriers, we wonld-mostnsBurediy-glve-the prefer-, ence to the man or woman who was paying something each -month toward dwnlng his or her own home. IjWILLBUlH HOME BEFORE CROWDS -with his feet in the soil and a stake in 'the community. And as such other things being equal he will be a better icltizen and a better man because of home- ownership. Nor lsiMt otherwise wun un Most women earnestly desire a Imim niiniiinMiii iiimiiimiii Miiimn miiiiii mum' mm i wiiimiMinnnmummuiin ml iiwiiiiiPiiiiiiin'iiiiiiipggwfarsMg s) F. inn innn Movement Started by'Tribune Is Being Taken Up by Citizens All Over the Nation Communities See Advantages and Attractions of Plan and Start Campaigns of Own The TRIBUNE'S First!" movement Is "Buyra-Home-sWeeping over the country.

War or no war the idea hus caught on. Tho TRIBUNE has indeed "started something" that appeals to the entire country, and despite the unsettled conditions that the international situation has preated, people ure beginning to figure that their own little homo is a good thing to have in time of peace or uncertainty. Tho following letters from officials of the State Realty Federation show what the loading development men of the State think of The, TRIBUNE'S movement and the activity of tha Oakland Real Estate PRESIDENT CO NG RATl'IATES. "Permit me to congratulate the realtors of Oakland and the manairQ- The tA LA fj TIM BtJN on the splendid Buy-a-Home-Flrst movement. I cannot too strongly commend the members of the Oakland Real Estate Board and the edi tors of The TRIBUNE for taking up this matter and carrying it througn to the success which Is already in "In my opinion, there Is nothing so beneficial to a community as a velopment of this idea, that th ownership of a home Is a thing to moat diligently sought some thing worth while: that there is notl lng that will develop community spirit and cuuse the people of a city to become, thrifty, industrious and useful members of society like home ownership.

"Show me a where homes arm owned by its residents, and in every you will find a high type of citizenship, loyal to its community and Up instlutions, a place where flourish schools, churches and all other institutions which uplift mankind, and where the stimulus to thrifty and progressive and satisfactory citizenship wonderfully develops. "You cannot do a greater thing for Oakland than to carry this home to every individual of our city, nor can you do a more Important work for our State or the Nation. Our California State Realty "Federation fully appreciotes your leadership In spreading after this Idea that It Is the profitable, logical and intelligent thing to liuy-a-Home-First. "Congratulatorially yours, L. ATKINSON-, Presldfnt "California State Realty Federation." A II HECTOR'S IDEA.

"Every realty man should own his own home in his own town. The man wh6 does not own his own home Is not nearly so well fitted to induce others to buy. one. 'Faith without works Is and no man who has not faith enough in his own towri to buy a home can. or Induce Interest In another to buy.

If he owns no home it not his Homo' Town. He is always handicapped by fatal omission. "The essential duty of every salesman is to own a particular lot for his future home, If a single man, or a home, if married, and have a substan- tian interest in the community. He at. once has a talking basis that him far in advance of his competitors.

"Other investments will naturally follow, but the first and most important purchase for a real estate salesman to make Is his own home. 'Example is better than "Very truly yours, P. PRYOR, Pacific Grove, Cal. "Director California State Realty Federation." FROM THE 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT "I was more than pleased be present at the splendid luncheon of your Real Estate Board recently and was much, impressed with the good spirit that prevailed. Your Buy-a-Home-First movement boosted by The TRIBUNE is a most excellent idea.

and I know of no place that the plan should be easier to advance than your deJightful home city of Oakland. I cannot conceive of men residing In such -a beautiful section and not owning a home. "Yours sincerely, "BEN F. WRIOHT, Monterey, Cfcl. First VioeNPresident California State Realty Federation." Close Two Big Deals in Thousand Oaks During the 'week the Berkeley Thousand Oaks Realty Company closed two Important sales that advanced "their sales record for the season to J102.050, Manager A.

Parsons announces. D. McCoy, a leading Sacramento builder, was the principal purchaser, taking twelve lots In Thousand Oaks and Falrmount Park, the purchase price be lng 117.400. McCoy will begin at once the building of a number of distinctive homes on the lots." "Bock gardening Is the vogue In the said Mr. McCoy.

build- ers are Incurring heuvy, cost for the transporting of colorful rocks for garden purposes, Just the kind of rock In which Thousand Oaks is so artistically rich. The fact that rock gardening Is the vogue elsewhere and that the Thousand Oaks district so rich in the quality of rock desirable for the most striking ef feet ha been overlooked." he declared. E. L. Hlggins, thirty years a builder In has purchased for $12,000 five lots In Thousand Oaks on which he will huild colonial houses.

The first of these houses will be after the quaint Pennsylvania farm house type. B. Bowman Is busy with his archl- j-tect, Robert T.r McDougalL, deeignlng a 'number of-houses for Thousand Oaks. Bowman plans to group a. number of houses to give a distinctly Colonial set- In Spite of Conflict, or Maybe Because of It, Realty Market Was Never So Brisk as Now Many Sales 'Recorded During First Few Days of April Bear Out Statements of Realtors By Glen C.

Barhnart of Realty Syndicate Company, 1 In spite of th war news or perhaps of It the real estate market for residence propertes In Oakland has not been so active for three years as It Is at the present time. March was the biggest month In three years for our company as regards out-of-town Investors in residence property. During the first two days of April ws sold 27 pieces of property and on Tuesday, the day that war Was absolutely certain, we' sold severs! pieces of property to out-of-town buyer and sold lo cally a residence at 568 Spruce street' for 16250, another at 680 Spruce street for a like amount, a residence at 680 Capell street at $5750 and a residence on Acton street for 2T, During this Just closed, one hundred and twenty sales, aggregating nearly were made to out-of-town buyers. These people- purchased residence property either for Investment or intending, to establish home in Oakland. Thsy are located In Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Arlsona, Minnesota and interior district of California.

Indicative of the erect the war has had on Oakland realty murket and of the attitude of the Kealty (Syndicate Company toward this subject, la the following bulletin Issued Tuesday night by the Syndicate to Its salesmen and sent by wire to Its correspondents throughout the country: The declaration of war means that Oakland will be the biggest, busiest manufacturing city on the Pacific coast (this means west-of Chicago) durfhg the next twelve months. It means that factories working 24 hours a day will require three shifts of men. Jt mean that there will be no It means high wages, big, profitable "war baby" contracts, money, money everywhere. Today, Immediately after receipt of I the new of the President' message, three of the. biggest sales' we have --made, for months went through.

While newsboy were calling "war extras," 'people w4re coming Into our office asking for options, reservations, etc. i March, with war a certainty, was the biggest month, both in cash and Installment sales, we have had for three years. Last night' papers announced that Union, Iron Works had decided to add five million dollars to their present plant, thus building' upon the Oakland eatuary the Mgget ship-building plant In the 'United State and one of the greatest In the world. Schwab, who owns this plant, -also figuring on putting in steel mill adjacent to the Iron work. It is rumored that Albany is to be the seat of another big shipbuilding 1 New factories are comlnr In fast that the Chamber of -Commerce ha lost track of them.

We are now figuring on advancing the prices on all of our land, esp- dally our factory sites in. vllle. We already regret that we did not make a greater advance In prices in Chevrolet Park. The realty market has attained a momentum that can't be checked for five year. No more reservations or options will be granted to salesmen.

Do not ask for them. Telegraph your sales. No answer signifies acceptance. IS NEW PROCESS A new finishing proce invented, by Fred Ehat and employed for the first time In a house being built in Thousand Oaks by Frank Spring, is attracting a greai deal of attention from home builder because of Its desirability in the treatment of redwood Interiors. By the use of it the obvious redwood effects ara entirely de--stroyed and an appearance of the antique is readily obtained.

Redwood with Its beautiful markings can take the plaee or much more expensive material In the hetter class of building and the richer effects of more expensive finishing can be had In the Dooular priced houses. There is nothing Intricate about the process and the Redwood Association will teac-hlt to anyone Ihterestea wiinoui cost. The redwood appearance Is first destroyed by the use of acids and the "filler" or stain Is applied, in the preparation of which any tone effect desired can be had. A glossy finish can be secured If desired, but the soft tones are much richer. In the Spring house Is a two-story, fully paneled room, the celling of which Is done In an antique gray, the beams Jn tobacco brown and the walls In a tone, obtained from Jthe combination of certain wine colors, called Chartreuse.

The oak floors, treated by the same pro-j cess are toned to harmonize with the' general motif. The ordinary red brick of the fireplace take on the appearance of old metal. The library, on an upper floor, offers very interesting study in what can be accomplished the use of this process. -The tones are intended to harmonise with the out-of-doors and it la very euecwveiy accomplished. The predominating tone is of the color of the oak berk, but shifting lights get a glint or rea or a m-" green.

It is very unusual and most attractive. A bedroom is clone in the deep tones of heliotrope. In Tact mere is no the adaptability of this process. munlty Is a basis of credit to start with--and affords an opportunity for s. family to a more normal, healthy and profitable existence.

Los Angeles Is Justly proud of Its heautiful homes of varied archi tecture from the bunsrslow to the man Bleh. The easy paymert plan has helped many a msn to pay for his nome qere and I am sure there are tiunurxla our. cltv who, when all of the advent- hl.ps of owning their own homes are put tefore them, will respond to your ap- ix nl. The more homes, the higher the standard of the people and the greater crelit to your city. Keep up the good work.

-m' JA By ROSE WILDER LANE. (Rote Wilder Lane la one of the best known writer of the West. She Is the author of a number of books Including "The Life Story of Henry Ford," "The Land and a Living," etc. In her stories he strikes a warm, Intimate, human note which has won her thousands of reader in California. The following the real experience of an Oakland woman with Mrs.

Lane's Illuminative comment' Is one of the best things that ha come recently from her pen.) Sly little neighbor came and leaned over the trim greeni-pointed fence and said: "While I was working In my garden today I realized suddenly that I have found the secret of happiness. "And a year ago I thought I would never be happy again. "So few of us know how to be happy! We learn so many things how to add sums, and how to-make money, and how serve dinners, and how to dress and thing mean nothing at all when we haven't learned happiness. "Now that I have learned it at last, I know that'Uying will never be so hard for me again; though none of the things that hurt me are changed. Being happy, after all.

Is not a matter of environment, it Is a matter of adjustment. I never saw that iintij today. A soft mist was falling. It covered the hills, and the We-oaks in the glen behind the house, with a thin ay veil. My white fleur-de-lys shimmered like del icate sliver gauze through the tiny rain drops on their petals.

The breeze against my cheeks was cool and damp, but the brown earth was I warm. I felt the warmth of it through my gardening gloves, as I turned it with my trowel, and patted it down around the little roots. I was humming to myself. 'Suddenly I stopped, cuddling a baby loberllar' in my hand. I almost said the words aloud in my surprise, 'Why, I'm I looked back at the woman I was a year ago, and she seemed to me a dlr ferent "The change has come about so gradu-lly that I never realized It before.

I re member now that for a long time Allen has not been so worried as he used to be, and my friends have said that I am looking better and stronger. "It was just two years ago that my baby died, and the doctor said we could never have another child. "I can't talk about it, even now. I kto serve dinners, and how to dress and iP? fl I A garden can be a dung of joy or a mailer of profit around your own home, I as you wish. You can I grow posies in a flat, nor can "Little Tom" find exercise for his nimble hands in an apartment.

Do you own a Home? Would you like to own a Home? There Is a Time in every man's Ufa when he dreams of a Rome. Nothing is complete without a Horn. A Home is RTi Asset, A Home Is a Protection." You can not get nlong without a Home. And wa- fact that you should have a Home. So.

we ar going to build you a Home. At Neptune May 14, 1917. Come and see the way to start a Home. Learn the details of a Home. Iarn how to furnish a Home.

How to plan a Home. How to commence life with a Home. We thank you. The Oakland Realty Board. Plans are already under way for the construction of tho five-room- modern bungalow which is to be built in eight hours at Neptune Beach by the Oakland Realty i Each day create more interest ana brings new problem to view whereby this wonderful house building perfor mance Is attracting interest irom parts of the country.

A Dlatform has been constructed upon which the home will be built and the operation witnessed from any part of the grounds. Contractors have already expressed their desire to compete for the honor of belne able to engineer this wonderful feat. E. Spence, an Alameda contrac- lint, nlr.nHv nntnrAii nlnns find A blil. contractor tht he can complete the house w.thln the specified time of eight hour.

East Bay and San Francisco contractors are also figuring on tho Job. Home furnishing establishments are arranging to furnish the house within one hour, after the last nail has been driven home. The furnishing of this house will be complete in detail. The building will commence at 8 a. m.

sharp, the hour of 12 to 1 will be taken for lunch, and at 5 o'clock the siren will announce the completion of the house, fifteen minutes being allowed for cleaning purposes. Then the wonderful operation of furnishing the bungalow will commence. A search Is now being msde for a couple to be married In the bungalow, and from all Indications, the public will see for the first time In the "history of the West, a "home established -ln-nine hours. Althoush plans are being submitted everv day. the Oakland Realty Board extends a cordial invitation to any man, woman or child who has a plan and would like to see the plan they cherish put Into reality to submit the same.

Bridge Plan Makes Engineering Firm A splendidly equipped engineering firm has come out of the" proposed Francisco-Oakland bridge, which received so much attention in the papers some months ago. Wilbur J. Watson, William R. Davis Harlan. Miller, who associated themselves together temporar-islly, for the purpose of developing the big San Francisco-Oakland bridge Idea, ave-decided to continue tne association mamntly under the name of the Watson-Davis-Miller Company, with has h.nlxa vaf-t mount of experience In 'bridge construction, and concrete wjnrk of dam andvliwk type.

They will have offices In Iceland. Ohio; Albany, N. and San Francisco. Los Angeles Endorses "Buy a Home By CHARLES G. ANDREWS, Vice-President Wright Callender An.

drew Las Angeles. Permit me to. congratulate you upon your work In inaugurating the "Buy a Home First" spirit in your Any movement started to encourace the spirit of thrift among the people of your city is commendable, but especially i is the "Buv a Home Kirs! movement an important one because of the great good to your own people. To own one's own borne In any com- nome. r-speciauy wntjn uioro children to be reared and trained.

The mother knows that a permanent home in a good, clean, healthy location Is the best ithlng in the world for the tmua. we tain nf "better babies in California." "We shall take a long step in that direction we are Teady to realty encourage i the young couple to begin life in a home 'T'of their own. For the Bake or man, wo-Iman and child. "Buy a Home First." "FLAT, SWEET FLAT." 3. "Buy-a-Home-First" is favorable to ithe highest development of true patriot llsm.

Not the loud, windy, false patriotism has nothing to lose and little to but that love of country which is inatural to a man when his all Is Invested "in that country. Ownership is amatter of character and honor as well as possession. A man wlU riBlt his life for his 'home when he would not risk a rent In his trousers for a tenement. For that which we love, we are ready to sacrifice even unto death. There ''la something 'about "Home, home, sweet, sweet home' that stirs the blood and nerves a man to Ihis duty.

But Is is impossible to feel any 'kind of a thrill, as we sing "Flat, nat, sweet, sweet fiat." Th. man Hnpfln live whose heart be longs to the possessions of another, man as to his own. France has won for helself Immortal honor In the present war largely France Is a land of home-owners, and for those ancestral homes no sacrifice was too great or battle too bloody. Tftere fore it may be accepted as true that a land of home-owners will be loyal ana brave. Then, for these reasons, and others too 1 numerous to mehtion, young man, Buy-.

a -Home-First. Install in that home a good wife. Stay at home nights "as a i general" thing. Improve the home, pay for it, and be happy. There Is Difference in Kind of Loans "Look at the interest I have been paying these last five years, and our home is no nearer being paid for now than It was at the commencement." A young married man made this remark to an intimate friend one day.

He was rather discouraged, and his friend asked: "What kind of a loan have you? Aren't you reducing the debt each month?" "Why, no," replied the young man, "I have a flat loan and all that I pay Is In terest. I thought when I started that I would surely be able to pay a couple of hundred dollars off at Kie end of the year, but I don't seem to be able to get the meney together." .1 "That is just the trouble," Said his friends. "You haven't got tho right kind of a loan. When my wife and I built our home we made an Installment loan, which Is especially to encourage home- builders. We pay $12.60 per month on $1000.

This pays the Interest and pays -off the debt in a given time. The interest Is reduced monthly as you make the payments and you are encouraged to pay off the debt Just as fast as you can. Take my advice. For the salaried man who wants to get his -home paid for, give me the installment loan. In that way you pay lor uie nome aa you earn-the money each month.

It is Just like rent and at the end of the year you are a good bit ahead." Bank President to owe Beautiful Home J. A. Silveira, president of the Tortu-guese-American Bank, of San Francisco, la having a most beautiful home erected On Upper Park Boulevard overlooking Di-mond Canyon. The house will stand in the midst of an acre of ground, and the buildlnr and garden will be in classic Italian style. The building will cost about and Mr.

SilVeira upend thou sands upon the gardens in addition. The hillside lends itself to beautiful terracing, and landscape, gardeners have taken advantage of that In designing artistic effects. As soon as the building is completed the planting of the garden in rare shrubs and fldwera will be completed and the place will become one of the show spots of Oakland. B. A.

HcWilliama has the contract for the building. think I was not quite sane during those the. wall, and you wouldn't believe how black grew. Before the season was, over around It to protect the grass-seed that would be- a lawn. We had scarcely settled when my next door neighbor ran In one morning with her hands full of geranium cuttings.

'I thought you might like Some for your she said. 'They're Ivy-geranium, the coral pink kind. They look so against the gray BEGINNING THE GARDEN. 'That was the beginning of my garden. I stuck the little things In a row against hey were flaming like sunset against "Then we set out the roses, Killarneys and Cecile Bruners and Ellen Wards.

Our neighbor across the street has wonderful roses; he prides himself on them. Allen is ambitious to beat hisMarie van Houtsi Every Sunday morning he is out digging and spraying and pruning. "I planted the mignonette and forget-me-nots in the bed beside the porch, and set Shasta daisies down both sides of thei gravel path through the back garden. Half the summer they were white with blossoms. 'They didn't require so much care, but my chrysanthemums certainly did.

After I'd got the little plants started I began to take a real interest in them. 1 read up on chrysanthemum culture, and compared notes with my watched every little curled leaf they put out; I dUg around their roots, and kept them watered Just enough; I pinched them off at the right height, and pinched them off again, and when they blossomed I had the largest, fluffiest chrysanthemums In the block. This year they will be even bigger. "At first I did not care so much about the garden. I worked around in.

it. mechanically, as I did everything. I fe-lt that all of me that was really me was dead: it was Only my body a little bit of my mind that kept on going soft brown earth, I watched tlnv leav unfolding, and green hud slowly opening. "I WAS HAPPY." A miracle is always in a garden the miracle of life itself. To put a hard brown seed in the frlendLv earth, to watch It sending Its delicate leaves toward the, sky.

to see it reach out to rain and dew sunshine and make Itself beautiful and fragrant nothing brings you closer to Oorl. GREEN, GROWING THINGS. There Is a. subtle, Insistent influence that makes Itself felt among green growing tliiiiBS. -Loving them, and working among tln-m, you become' prtrt of the mystery and beauty of life.

You. feel a kinship with the earth and the wind and the rain, and gradually you know, as the grass knows, that all of life is good. It is not for us to understand, or to rebel, or to try to make our lives to our pattern, for after all. In the end life has ItH own way with us. It Is.

our part only to take what It gives us, as a garden does, and so, without striving or thinking about" grow into happiness. That Is the philosophy of a garden, the philosophy which I have learned by loving and being a part of a garden. Vn phut ourselves off from the deep gladness of life when we insulate ourselves from the- earth by concrete "pavements p.nd brick walis. We shrivel, and growiard and bitter, like half-uprooted plants. We become Irritable and peevish and discontented; -we are not strong enough to bear We fall to reach down to the deep-rooted meaning of life.

A garden will teach us better. The green things, with their roots In the warm', earth, know the beauty of life, and they keep folded tight in all their buds, the secret of happiness. They have taught it to Tne. and they would teach it to all of us If we would live among them in their WILL BUILD. I Bert Bercovlch, who recently purr THE HOTEL "REST." "The trip somewhere, mountain air, perhaps.

His medicines did no good. Allen sent me to Colorado for three months. I lived In a hotel there. I remember every quirk and curl in the wallpaper on the celling of my room, yet. I lay for hours, star ing at it.

At night, when I could nof bear the darkness pressing On my open eyes any longer, I turned on the lights and lay looking at it. "When I came back I tried to take up life again and gt through it somehow. But always there was that inexorable fact, pressing down on me like a weight. I seemed to teatMnyself against It till I was numb with pain and weariness, but it was still there. "We were living In an apartment bouse on Harrison street.

I tried to keep busy with housework, to sew, to embroider, to go shopping and calling, anything, to keep my mind so occupied that Iwould not think. But if my effort stopped for a second I dropped into a blacK depression J'When Allen came home at night I would be lying on the couch, or standing by the window drumming on the pane in such a miserable mood that I could not talk to him. 1 "When he told me that he had bought this house, as an Investment, because he could buy it outright for no more than the rent we were paying, I scarcely listened to him. I did not care. "Wo moved out in the spring.

The house looked bare and hew, standing in its square of bare earth, with, the stakes "But a garden is like a living thing. 4t chased the northeast turner of He will prov.de for a deep front-becomes part of your life, and something and Kuclid avenues, will begin, at once, and garden effects typical tut the beautiful within you blossom and grows the erection of a service garage to cost, period most genuinely representative uf as It blossoms and, grows. I dug in the $15,000, the ideal In homey comfort..