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MOCKS. APRONS MAKE GARDENING (Special to the Y 1 n.i lUilv PvarpiiiT) New York, June 9, 1915. "What is so rare as a day in June, When earth tries heaven if it be in tune?" So thinks the girl who gathers up her gaily painted sprinkling pot, her shears, her basket and her kneeling pad, and trudges off to the garden to enjoy an hour or two of solitude and intimate association with the sunshine and flowers. It is quite a fad this pottering among your own posies; a phenomenon one might call it, where in the artistic finds expression in para phernalia which blends with the land- scape. The shops abound with gay impor- tations, smocks, bonnets and aprons, to tempt those who tarry within the garden gate. The smocks in them- selves are enough to turn one to rakes, spades and garden baskets. I am told the fad originated in England; cer- tainly, it is charming enough to belong to old Brittany. This garment has mruch the appearance of a middy, grown to greater length coming just below the knee, being slashed to slip on over the head. Usually it is made with set-in sleeves and yoke, and smocked front and back, and on the pockets and sleeves. For the most .part, linen, unbleached muslin, cre tonne and silk are used in the making. A Smock of Blue Linen for the Woman On Gardening Bent All a garden, with cockle-shells and silver bells, needs is a Mistress Mary, quite contrary in one of these fetching garden smocks. Can you picture any thing more charming than a bright eyed girl in a blue smock, white hat, skirt and shoes, among the roses in an -iH trordon 7 PorrhnTiPP t hprp IS n woven wicker basket on a cane, stuck AND ALL TO THE NEW FA in the ground to hold the posies, and a few plant-sticks, with parrots,, car dinals, and bluebirds perched on top, , scattered among the flowers to make j the picture painted by nature quite complete. Just looking at a yellpw linen smock, with flowered cretonne "collar, hat and skirt to match, brings i to mind an old-fashioned garden with its straight rows of bachelor buttons, lady slippers and hollyhocks. So it goes that there is a smock for every gorden, and no garden is complete without one. Watching passing events, the shop keeper concludes that all the world is a garden, and straightway fills his window with giddy wheelbarrows--all painted with flowers; green basket kits with English tools; smocks apron and a thousand and one things sug- gesting neatness, care and comfort for garden work. There was a garden set offered the other day in one of the shops, for $12 complete, consisting ' of a flat, boat-shaped basket of brown wicker, fitted with shears, a collapsi- ble ruler, grubber marker, rake brown "burlap kneeling-pad, and an apron of the brown burlap. In fact, all the tools now come light in weight to fill the requirements of the woman gardener; and the fixtures in bright colors, to catch the eye. A Belgian who keeps a shop in the down-town section of the city, made a name for himself in the early season by introducing the garden-sticks; these are wooden canes pointed at one end with figures of animals, people, and flowers on the top to stick in the j ground and tie the plants to. A maid j eng all forlorn stands side by side with the man all shaven and shorn; for j $2.50 the pair will hold up your pet I rose bush all summer, or keep the golden-glow in order. A black cat back humped, and tail skyward, is an other familiar figure on the sticks, and bluebirds, and red cardinals, make j bright spots in green shrubbery. And some importations have Dutch wind , mills on top and an expensive stick ' has a fairy gracefully poised on a ' toadstool. One man has even gone ' so far as to use bonny rabbits in place ; of the birds, and an ingenious friend j tics on the gift card": j "Standing in your garden trim, May the plant-stick straight and tall In the warm sun, ; By its brightness gladden all." j No need, however, to rely wholly j on the sticks for color. Bamboo bas kets for weeds and knees, are made ' bright with cushions of figured cre-j tonne; the kneeling-pad of woven rush I is bound with red tape, that it, too, may have the spirit of the sunshine j and flowers; and baskets are enamel-1 ed and painted with roses buttercups J" and daffodils. Even aprons takeon1 a gala day aspect, being made of j chintz, cretonne; or quaint, checked, pink gingham? ' j The woman who makes gardening! her summer pastime may even goj farther and select the dress she wears j with the apron to harmonize with the 'Si V mtv) i f 'i llf f I'' : W Mk ' "1 V 1 A Dress of Brown Linen to Wear with Gai'ien Apron of Cretonne grass, flowers and dovecote. A Drown burlap or dark blue linen will give the desired effect, made with plain waist, full skirt and the broad organdy col lar and cuffs that we have come to call Quaker. She will have no trouble in finding these accessories. The sports shops must have anticipated the craze for there are hats, gloves, and shoes, galore for the purpose. First come the peanut straws and the carie-bottom chair hats, with floppy trims to protect the wearer from the sun. These are trimmed with a ro sette of ci'etonne to match the smock, or apron, a velvet bow or a cluster of straw flowers. Then there are yoke shapes and sunbonnets with stream ers of cretonne which have taken their style from a peep in a 1915 fashion book; but the Chinese coolie hats are Always ON TIME With Service and RIGHT SCHEDULE Of Prices At The EASTMAN KODAKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCOS, ICE CREAM AND SODAS. Largest Drag Stock In Yuma BO racifisst amai the novelties of the season. With the streamers attached to the side, milady can wear the plateau on her head, or when the sun is yet in the East, use it as a basket to carry her flowers. Since gloves must be worn to pro tect the hands, the stores, are showing chamois and canvas for this purpose and if you listen close, you will hear the girl behind the counter tell each customer in a bored voice to buy a. size larger than they usually wear. It is easy to tell that this girl, too, has been caught in the thrall of the gar dening craze, and is thinking, no doubt, of larkspur and roses, instead of the gloves her customer wants. Garden etiquette ever reaches the shoes. White canvas is the approved material, and you may have a comfort able flat sneaker or trim pump, with medium heel in this fabric. With such settings, fittings and clothes, garden ing becomes more than a mere pleas ure. It now is a real sport of the sum mer; when you meet a friend, It's not how many miles have you motored, or how many tournaments won; but how does your garden grow since the last drought, rain or storm of the season? oooooooooooooooo O Opportunity is ever worth ex- O O pecting; let your hook be ever O O hanging ready. The fish will be O O in the pool where you least im- O O agine it to be. Ovid. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O When a man is sincerely peni- O O tent for his misdeeds, and gives O O satisfictory evidence of the same, O O he can safely be pardoned. O O Abraham Lincoln. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO One of Yuma's successful business men said to the Examiner today: 'Tis better to have bid and lost, Than to sell a bid at less than cost;: And better still, not bid at all, Than sell a bill and lose it all. Subscribe for r;i3 Examiner. ensues