Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

STILL HE MISSED SOMETHING

Suburban Amateur Gardener Who Had Improved Small Estate Is Given Severe Jolt. He was a suburban amateur gardener. whose mission in Use was to bore all his friends by asking them down for week-ends, and sbowfng them round his three-feet-by-two estate. Just now he waa boring Jackson, from the office. He allowed him his four rose trees; he •bowed him his pocket shrubbery; ha showed him his half-inch fountain Jet, with Its little basin and pair of goldish; he showed him his summer house, which would almost admit two persons at one and the same time. "Never know what you can do with a bit of ground till you try!” cackled the host, rubbing his hands gleefully. "Quite ao—quite so!” returned Jackson, absently. "But I think you might improve It” "How?” questioned the owner, betwene gratification and wounded pride. “Well,” replied Jackson, “why don’t you take a strip off the flower bed — say, four inches wide —turf Hover, and convert it into golf links?”