Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

All summer long, to save the grass, I kept the lawn well wetted down; the grass all shriveled up, alas! and changed from green to gray and brown. I worked nine hydrants over time, and used three miles of garden hose, for sprinklers squandered mafiy a dime, and still the grass turned up its toes. "Your grass ig dead,” the neighbors said; "ypu’ll have to seed it down once more; the life from all the roots is sped, the lawn’s as barren as a floor.” And then one night there came a rain, ttie kind we had when I was young; J. Pluvius j?rew safe and sane, and from the rain tank knocked the bung. And then the grass once more showed life, the green came back, ' that long was gone; and I and Susan Jane, my wife, turned joyous handsprings on the lawn.