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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 16.

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Try Digging

By The Country Contributor

THE woman who cannot make a home in a tent can't make one in a palace. And so with your garden. If you can catch a mood in your own petunia bed, a hint and stirring of divine things in the tangle of color and sunshine, you have all the spirit of beauty ever found in the hanging gardens of Babylon or the Alcazar gardens of Spain.
If you have sinned and suffered, try working in the garden.
If you are lonely, if life has hurt you unmercifully, see if digging will not cure you.
If you are rich and “do not have to work,” do it anyway. You probably need more than any other thing to be tired and hungry.
But if you are poor,—if the dooryard is narrow and the porch is ugly,—your reasons for gardening are still more urgent.—The Country Contributor, in the Ladies' Home Journal.