A HOUSE
THAT CAME
TO LIFE
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By FANNIE HURST
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HE terrace upon which Miss
Eustacia de Lima sat each eve-
ning was regarded, by all for-
tunate enough ever to have trod
its perfect turf, as one of the most
exquisite and commanding of all Eu-
rope. It hung, this terrace, over the
gray-green slopes of Fiesole, which
commands that view of the city of
Florence which spreads like a lady's
proud fan at its feet,
Not even in the days of its original
owners, Fifteenth century Medicis,
had this terrace boasted its present
perfection. Carefully restored by its
American owner fpom the overgrown
condition in which she found it, back
to a semblance of what must have
been its original pattern, Eustacia had
added subtly, and with conservatism,
to its bloom and geometric scheme of
pinnts and walks,
Approaching the Villa Fiesole, a half
mile of slender and precise Italian
poplars, as straight and narrow and
rigid as tall spears, pointed the way
to the villa. Once at the top of this
battalion of poplars, the terrace and
villa, and all its incredible view, burst
upon the beholder.
It was said in some of the guide
books that its wealthy owner, Miss
De Lima, had set about to make this
villa the most glorious in all Europe.
After a while, of course, as her suc-
cess came to be noised about and
friends, acquaintances, and sightseers
came from distances to behold the per-
fection of her dwelling place,
beautification blossomed into her hob.
by. Her only motive for ever leaving
it, her only desires, were that she
might gather within its massive walls
treasures that might enhance its glow
ing beauty.
How well she succeeded Is fTurthe
attested by the fact that out of defer.
ence to her outstanding achievement
in the way of perpetuating and ideal.
izing a landmark, the government hon-
ored Miss de Lima,
Fiesole Villa became twice over the
target it had ever been for t
seeing thousands who annually
crowded in for the feasts of beauty
Florence had to offer them
It was after the acknowledgment of
the government that Miss de Lima de
cided to throw open her gardens one
day a week for the further enjoyment
of those who came peering through t!
grill-wor
Guards
throughout th
was j
its
protect |
the general
to one
rope.
On this
Lima kept
moving atl
ment
teenth,
century objects of
that
Miss de
ly to her chambers,
day each week
carefull
enloy
consoles
the
Sixteenth,
among high-patined, Fif
and even Thirteent!
farniture and art
collected with lov
ing care as if these objects
packed very
memories of turbulent and picturesque
yesterdays live and breathing
compani Each one had a history,
of which she was most carefully
aware, Here, the elaborate carved
bed in which a Fifteenth century Doge
had Here, a Gothie chest of
incredible associations. Here, a paint-
ing by that was laden with
reminders of his early life,
For twelve years Miss de Lime,
growing older, more fragile, more re
motely associated with the bygone
centuries she loved, dwelt in the midst
of the luxury of beauty, sharing it,
to some extent with the publie, but for
the most part, drinking her pleasure
and her tea alone, on her terrace, at
sunset ; strolling, with her two lean
wolfhounds, through her gardens,
olive groves, and leafy hillsides at
dusk ; spending long hours In arrange
ment and rearrangement of the rows
of chambers: tending and earing for
a bit of eracking wood or majolica as
if it had been a living thing; loving
her solitude, glorying in the beauty
of this solitude with which she was
able to surround herself,
Gradually, as this began to pall a
bit, Miss de Lima allowed herself the
luxury of invading friends, who came
eagerly to share these blessings with
her. But after a while, it seemed to
Miss de Lima the pecking curiosity
her visitors brought with them, the
restlessness, the desire for bridge and
pastimes, after the first few hours of
exclaiming delight had worn off, dese.
erated, In a way, the crystal siiences
of her villa, and so she relapsed Into
sotude—solitude among hanging gar.
dens and strutting peacocks and tiny
hissing waterfalls,
“Selfish I” sald her friends. Some.
thing of this awareness must also
have struck Miss de Lima, because
after a while, prompted by a com
bination of ennul and sense of duty,
she arranged that the vilin be open
to the public again, two days a week.
In a way, that served to Increase her
isolation because it meant that addi
tional hours must be spent indoors,
prowling among her objets d'art.
It was with something akin te un-
pleasant surprise that Miss de Lima
began to apprehend herself In what
had come to be her habit of peering
such
timbers
with
with
were
slept.
Yes hhoha
TUDeNs
through the heavy brocades and shut.
ters of her windows these days that
the gardens were open wide, The
voices and streamers of laughter and
high excited exclamations that came
to her, seemed to draw her automat-
feally towards the din,
There it was, the same old van-
dal, vulgar, poking, curious publie
that she in a way despised even while
she tolerated its ways. How they
moved about, down there, through her
gardens, kept in place by guards, ad-
monished by perents, splashed In sun.
light that seemed positively coarse as
applied to them. How they could met-
amorphose her beautiful silence into
din; her paradise Into a mere penny-
a-stare spectacle! One onslaught
from them, and dignity became so
much raucous curiosity, The racing
children, the gaping matrons, the
heavy-legged papas brought desecras
tion, and yet, for the life of her, It
was impossible for Miss de Lima not
to feel drawn to her windows as if to
an open grate that held warmth,
They were a common lot, but there
them, mysterious as mist, the
They electrified
the
rose off
aroma of hufhanity.
the Even
Yenuses, marble faung, the Don-
atellp the Della Robbla
friezes around the garden, scemed to
take on a sort of relationship to life.
They emerged from the centuries
as replicas of Mfc; not as mere ob
jets d'art
It was that curious warmth, coming
her these days, gradually Im
pelled Miss Lima, although she
would never admitted it, even
to herself, to throw open the gardens
and on the sixth
place,
the
RUOUDS,
over
de
have
week,
itself!
five days a
the villa
That was the most exciting day of
all! The youngsters, with their round
questioning eyes and grimy little hands
into those of the gaping
matrons and the heavy-legged papas!
Young honeymooners standing
bound before the beauty of a Botti.
Men and women out of the
humblest walks of life, trailing along
the bathed in the mystic
beauty of they knew not what!
From various apertures which she
had arranged for herself, Miss
Lima,
clasped
«111!
Cel.
corridors,
It was as If the great stone
ult to heat at best,
warmth,
warmth
of the beginnings
which was at thi
This is the story
igantic plan
's bra .
i a home for one
W ten children
the Fiesole i
nurses, musical
from over the dwell
world,
frescoed chambers,
palettes, music rolls, toys, In-
at the top
had never
Miss de
she
restore,
children,
Smallest Split of Time
iit seconds for time
fraction of one sec.
This fine distine-
tion can be made with a ervstal clock
deseribed in a report to the National
Academy of Sciences by W. A. Mar
the st lest is a
ond in 3
DIUries
rison.
The clock, he says, can be made to
lock on mean sun time
and the other on sidereal time, which
about one second apart In 30
operate one «
are or
centuries,
The crystal, of quartz, vibrates 100.-
000 times a second, and this Is reduced
by gears to the required
number of beats to operate a elock
an Associated Press cor
explains,
The sun time clock, says Marrison,
would operate at 3606 cycles per sec
ond, while the sidereal clock would
have 366 cycles minus 0.000,701.803
eycles per second. The crystal arrange
ment can be made to maintain this fine
distinction,
electrical
accurately,
respondent
Wail for Whiskers
There is a movement In Pfance
working for the return of whiskers to
popular favor. Some time ago the
American idea that a man presents a
brigsker and more youthful appearance
with a cleanly shaven face took root
in France and whiskers fell to the
sween of the safety razor. In anelent
Gaul the beard was the symbol of an-
thority and power. No slave was al-
lowed to grow one and the local lord
would tolerate no beard In his district
that was more luxurious than his own.
And was not the beard held among
the Gauls and the Vikings as an es.
gential sign of manhood? The “beard:
less youth” was a person of no consé.
quence. The advocates of the whis-
kers do not expect to popularize the
full beard at once but are paving the
way by encouraging gontees, Imperials
and side whiskers,
Spider Once “Spinner”
For the origin of the word “Spider”
we have to go to Old English spidhre,
which was formed from spin-dhre,
from gpinnan, to spin, It has no rela.
tion to the fanciful souree that John
gon gave to it—"gpider from spy-dor-—
the insect that watches the dor or
humble-bee.” That It was long In the
language before it was referred to In
any manuscript is a reasonable dedue-
tion, but the earliest literary record
found among the materials collected
by the Philologieal society of England
has been ascribed to the year 1340, In
which It was spelled spldhre.~Kan-
sas City Times,
Wonderful Evolution
of the Homely Plow
SEs
Progress of the Plow: 1-—Pliny's Plow,
70 A. D.; 2—-The Syrian Plow, Known
5—The Egyptian Plow,
No agricultural has im-
proved more throug
inventions down thre
has the plow,
O'Brien, Washington
While
originally
advanced stage, the plow started from
“scratch,” literally.
The original plow,
O'Brien, was a forked stick
of & tree with a projecting point,
this implement the ground was broken
by dragging fork or projecting
point of the stick through the ground,
forming a continuous furrow,
the fork of the the
while the malin
the beam.
One of the
shown In plows of this kind
on Syrian
tween the share
tree limbs
While the earlier model
by one man, it is ¢
more men were required to handie the
long series of
wagh the ages than
"
declares Clarence A
pate atlorney.
many farm Implements were
conceived In a
fir
according
the
Thus
stick was share,
part of the stick was
first
pictured
monuments, was a brace be
and the beam to hold
the more i
arent that two or
Syrian plow,
First Home of the Plow.
Upon a very
clent Egypt, the count
to have been the
plow, Mr. O'Bri
shows a number
plow hy means of a rog
Another
later d
anim:
ian plow ghows an
the
that It had
ing a wider furrow that
more ground. It also had
instead of one and
fairly effective In
Yergil, In his
which formed
land movement in the F
B.C
the Egyptian plow, Pliny, a Roman
writer of the First century A. D. re
fers to a plow that had wheels to reg.
ulate the depth t also had a coniter,
or knife, fixed in Tront the share
to make the first cut of the sod. Mr,
O'Brien intimates, however, that such
fa plow was not in general use in
Pliny's time.
Plow With Wheels.
A thousand years later, however, a
plow with wheels and coulter was
doubtless in common use, It had evi.
dently spread up into England, since
extant drawings show Anglo-Saxons
of the Eleventh century using plows
of this description. One of these
shows a plow with two wheels pulled
by four oxen.
Five hundred years later, at the time
Columbus discovered America, the
plow showed little further Improve.
Egyptian
ite shows 1
crooked stick of
a hroader si
looms
“Croorgic
part of a
irst century
of
up and turn over
» share,
tirred it up
Cops
with a har
First Moldboard Plow.
United States in the
teenth century,
nis began to ap
in France
his {
of having In
mathemati
Plow of. Cast iron.
Newbold a farmer
yn N. J
in 179 nn
ant
moldboard all cast one piece, The
New Jersey farmers, however, did not
accept this Inne
Wood
a plow
Iwation,
made of cast iron
ing the best features of th
by Jefferson and by
plow had the point, share and
could be replaced. By
en. 1 ron plows of earlier
While the United States patent office
lists many later Improvements, In the
main the best plows today closely re
semble in design that patented by
Jethro Wood In 1810.
The gang plow appeared about the
middle of the Nineteenth century In
order to take care of the needs of the
farmer in the vast prairie, and while
originally drawn hy horses, they were
later drawn by steam. John Fowler,
about 1865, introduced steam plowing
in England. drawing two sets of plows,
And today it Is not uncommon to find
tractors drawing a number of plows
turning a breadth of many feet at one
time,
tte
Pruning should be done In the fall,
winter or early spring.
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An attractive sign at the farm en.
trance helps in advertising the farm
and its products,
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Plant only the best. It does not re
quire more space or effort to grow
a good plant or flower than a poor one.
. » »
Size or volume of business as meas
ured by cash receipts is a better in.
dex of farm labor income than ig the
number of acres in the farm,
ee & »
The best land for seeding to pasture
is usually that which has grown a
cultivated crop for one or more years
and has been kept free from weeds,
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When raised for seed, the soybean
crop ean be harvested with a combine
or binder the same as wheat, The
mower or bidder can be used to har.
vest the hay crop.
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Pastures need fertilizing and lim.
ing after years of use, the same as
other fields, Improvement of old pas.
tures will provide a large amount of
feed and better quality grass,
Limestone is beneficial to pasture
iand,
*» . Ld
Sudan grass was introduced in this
country In 1000 by the United States
Department of Agriculture,
. -. -
Weakened fruit buds will be alded
by application of a fertilizer high In
quickly available nitrogen, say Penn
State fruit specialists
. * -
Newly planted nursery stock should
be watered twice weekly In the sea.
son is dry, Cultivate to maintain loose
surface free of weeds,
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The common brown rat breeds six
to eight times a year and produces an
average of 10 young at a litter, Young
females breed when only three or four
months old,
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Efficient potato growers hav found
it helpful to have a sufficient supply of
lime and blue stone on hand before the
spraying season opens. Plan to have
a surplus Instead of a shortage,
. »
The black locust, planted by early
setttlers for the fragrance of its blos
soms, and Improperly called honey
locust on that account, is now recom
mended by the New York College of
Agriculture to plant for future fence
posts,
Newspapers Make Gain
in Number of Readers
The aggregate circulation of pa
pers dally in this country and Can- |
ada Is 45,100,245 as against 44,110, |
094 In 1080, a gain of about a mil |
lon dally readers, according to a |
recent newspaper directory,
It is a sign if people are
reading more, They are attending
the greatest school In the world, as |
somebody has called the newspaper, |
This school takes up every morn- |
ing In the year and usually begins |
its sessions before breakfast, It has |
a voluntary student body and its |
cost 18 but a fw cents per day. It
ig the cheapest tuition of any Insti |
tution for adults on earth. It knows |
no vacations and holidays, The
teachers are on the job all day and
through the night preparing the text.
book for next morning. No time
taken out fo ax an fons, If
good
More Moncy or Whiskers
If the postal
Kovno
employees o
district
get higher wages n
livered by bewhi
anti-shave strike
faces of the strikers
ing The
increased wages sey
but recelvi
uanfan postal
that
t+} y vos TH
ne use ol razo
from view,
to strike
ive, thes
gon.
are hest
Ome little
cathartic,-
Dr. Pierce's Pe for
bowels and stoma Pellet
a laxative—three for »
Up and at 'Em!
ved the mys
“I've =»
a hotel
rooms £1 nnd
lien
1 mp,"
“What is 17
*1 got
was up all night,
means Ww
one of the dollar rooms and
w
for
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War a relief and satisfaction
And when older, fast-growing
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disturbed condition quickly.
Because Castoria is made ex-
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