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WILMETTE LIFE . August '17, 1928 had asked for advice, cheerfully agreed to wash them off. AnQJhe~ good litarden belo~ged to .a former pupil of one of the Judges !D the group. With .a very small spac_ e of ground at his disposal, this Y?Ung man a mu.sician.a.. had made a dCl}tghtful ~outdoor livingroom of his y~rd. Branches of a tree drooped low over a · rock garden and pool. There were bright borders pf flow~rs along the fence. Benches at the extr~me ends made the _yard seem larger. The planting was well balanced. One of the gardens that interested us was that of a young mechanic who spends ev~ry sp~r.e moment at work in his garden. His house, once the barn, we thought, of a neighboring plac~ was set at ~he very back of. a corner lot. The long, narrow space m front was the garden. A border of gay colored flowers along the outside of his yard .gave the grey d_ingy neighbor hod a surprising beauty. Two small pooh filled with water plants had been made from a discarded boiler cut in two and sunk in the ground. His lilies, tulips, hyacinths, and rose bushes, he had picked up, on returning from work, in back of a hospital where they .had been thrown out. His v.·ife told U'3 that everyone who passed stopped to adn;tire the flowers. But the old woman next door, she added, the one whose windows overlooked the garden, hated the flowers and was always asking him why he didn't "throw out all that rubbish and plant grass." The merit of one garden lay in the thick vine-~ that were trained to grow over the li_ouse and garage, and on trellises above the fence, thus acting as a screen. Another garden's only claim to being a garden lay in a quantity of pink phlox that filled one third of a small back yard. We were near Mr. Nack's thousand dollar prize ~arden of last year and so went in to ·~ee it. The pool and the water lilies with the background of shrubs and plants are the admirable . featur~ of this garden. (Cot~tributcd by M. A. E.) A great civic work was accomplished through the efforts of H. L. Beach, 628 Sheridan square, Evanston We feel that we haye a keen interest in the project as he was for many years a resident of Wilmette. He has acquired a small tract of land on the lake in the vicinity of home and has spon~ored and labored early and late to help a group of children learn the art of working with their hands and to love nature. Mr. Be_ach has asked Frank Eager, president of the Wilmette Evening Garden club, to select three members for judges. Mrs. Charles M. Hurlbut, Mrs. C. D Ewer, and George Iliff will make the decision August 30 and will award the prizes. I hope to see the day when a course on simple gardenmg will be installed in every school's curriculum so that the generatio.p.s to come will consider it a privileg:e tQ "·ork amo!lg flowers. Dorothy Frances Gurney- ha·s expressed herself so beautifully in her poem "The Lork God Planted a Garden" that I am quoting a verse or two of it for you: Garden T allu '----------------· (CONTRIBUTED BY THE WILMETTE GARDEN CLUB) The Ravenswood gardens . were judged by the members of the Wilmette Garden club who were judging in the Tribune garden contest la·st week. You would have thought these gardens very poor, perhaps, compared with the ~rdens here. Some were careless gardens, ~egun app_ a rently, as all garden~ are, with enthusiasm, bu~ later neglected. The majority, however, e.sp..ecially those built on the high ground abQYe the banks of the canal, showed great care and were very neat, with lawns tidy and well chipped and weedless. Here and there an attempt had been made at landscaping. Unfortunately this had resulted more often in geometric shapes than in artistic planting. One of the best garden·.s ~e visited was on the canal. A small open pavilion was placed on firm supports that were hidd~n by bushes, on the edge of the high bank. Here o~e obtained a good view of the canal and its woode.d .banks. A rock garden almost conc~aled the garage. The yard was ·~pacious and of aQ irregular, pleasing sl)ape. The plants were in ~xc;ellent condition and not a weed could be seen. But the effect was marred .by two large circtilar flower beds that_ cut the lawn into pieces. And one of these beds, filled with zinnias, was outlined by "Stones that had beeg whitewashed. The owner who A Long Distance Call Is a Simple Matter P ERHAPS there are still a few persons who believe that making a long distance call .is a lot:tg-drawn-out, complicated and expensive procedure. Such is by no means the case. It is very easy to make any kind of a long distance call. To ~ake a station-to-station call, you merely call "long distance" and when the operator answers you tell her the number of the distant telephone. Ii you do not know the number, give the name and address _ under which the telephone is listed. The charge begins when the called telephone answers. To n1ake a person-to-person call, you tell the long distance operator the name and telephone number or address of the person to whom you wish to talk. The charge begins when communication is est~blished with that person. Ii you wish to know the rates or any other information, the long operator will help you. . distance . . ~"Earnings musf be sufficient to assure tht best possible..._ telephone service at all times and to assure the continued financial integrity of the business . . . . Earnings in excess of these requirements must either be spent for the enlargement and improvement of the service furnished or the rates charged for the service must be reduced." -From an address by WalterS. Gifford, President, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, to National Association of ""' Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, ......_ ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BEL.L SYSTEM One Policy , One System , Universal Service "The glow of the dawn for glory, The hush of the night for peace; In a garden at eve, says the story, God walks, and His smile brings release. "The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth · God is nearer one's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth." Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Franklin of 849 Sheridan road hav~ just returned from a motor trip through the Eagle River district.