Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., June 10, 1915, Image 6

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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
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woven wicker basket on a cane, stuck
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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
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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
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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?
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O pecting; let your hook be ever O
O hanging ready. The fish will be O
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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.
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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.
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