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Quick result gardening- sow the seeds to-morrow and you will have
Lettuce
you can eat
in five weeks
D
EAR HARRY,
So you are back from your, honeymoon, and safely installed
in your new home with your wife.
It was kind of you to ask me to come and stay with you next week-end, but I'm sure you and Patricin will want to be alone together for a bit longer, so I think, if you don't mind. I'll put off my visit till you're more settled.
Instead, I'll try to tell you in this letter a few of the things you want to know about your garden.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936.
SJ.C
Patience is a virtue, both In hus- There are two kinds, the ordin-
gardeners, but I suppose it's no use curly leaves, and the cos bands and gardeners: especially in try cabbage lettuce with crisp,
Start with a Salad
As
lettuce iny telling you that at your age, so with long, straight leaves, here goes.
If you take my advice you'll suck to the cabbage; most lettures have to be tied round with rama slightly above the middle 5 you have only a very small when they are about half grown, to plot, you won't have room help them to form heart, which is You say Patricia has undertaken for much in the way of vegetables, a
nuisance. to look after the flowers, while you so why not try growing salada? Besides, the cabbage lettuces taste want to grow a few vegetables as I should begin with lettuce; 11'e nicer; but that is purely my own quickly as possible, us a surprise for easy to grow, and should come up opinion. Try both if you like, and her. Well, it sounds as if you were quickly. Indeed, if it doesn't come see for yourself, only if you grow beginning well, but you mustn't be up quickly it won't be much use, cos, don't forget that tip about tying in too much of a hurry."
for the plants will be tough.
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CHAPTER ONE
A slim blond girl in a Pennsy!- vania orphanage, dreaming of a life of gaiety, of movement, of romance an Irish lad working in a London. factory, dreaming of the inventions which some day, he would work out
MOVILLERO FROM T
Here Gattaya Hoyer: LUCY HUFFAKER
can beauties. They stopped at the thentre before they went to the res. |taurant.
"Can you do anything?" the man- ager asked Suzy
"Anything everything. she said laughingly. "And so can Malzle."
"Well I don't take anybody's word for anything, but we need a couple more girls show up at rchenrant to-morrow for a try-out."
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So Suzy was on her way at last. thera and everywhere, planning "We're the two luckiest girls in vetore rather than dreaming of the im-
the world," and Maizie just portant things she would do-
are where we never tho were miles apart in back-the opening in London. "Here we of bo- thought well as in space. That they would a bit. Why, it is too good to be true." ever play a part in each others' lives, That last statement proved to be
alt 100 true.
Shore Once again the English would have seemed impossible. fate, chance, accident--whatever it is was not flat of the Americans and called has a why of bringing aboutzo after a few weeks, the company the most fantastic events. It knows disbanded.
OTO mbition and character asing. In a show which is bound to be
or even see each other in possui proved that their idea of humour
ones.
no inws but its own unfathomable "So now what?" said Mnizle as they were packing their suitcases to leave the theatre. "Sail for another the look at Liberty lighting up
were
world."
"Not me," said Suzy, "I'm staying right on in this town for a while."
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It was Suzy Trent who had the furthest to no toward the tryst the four dissimilar characters
to keep. When she was a little girl, scarcely more than a baby, she would tell herself that some day she was At first they were full of hope, but going to travel to far places. Where
there come a day when ever their It scarcely mattered, just so she high spirits flagged and neither could leave behind forever that would voice to the other the fears barren, ugly orphanage. How she she felt. There just didn't seem any didn't know yet, but some day she place in all of London for two Ame- would and a
rican girls,' who wanted to set or ringi a way. "I don't care at the start," she or dance, would say to herself fiercely. "If I Maizle decided they should go to have to stand behind a counter all Paris-there might be something for day In a store, if I have to wash them there and anyway a change ishes in a cheap restaurant-I'm go-would be good for them. But their ing places and see things and have money was running very low, so it things before I'm many years older." was decided that Suzy should stay Of course she dreamed of being on in their London lodging house an actress--what young girl doesn't while Malzie should cross the chan- Whether she had any talent or not nel. Surely one of them would and and send for the she did not know. But she knew she something soon had two things which were an asset other. cos-beauty and determination. So So Suzy was left alone in London.
when she left the orphanage, she Maizie wrote she had tried everything Telephone: went straight to New Yorkar but the best she could do was to get course.
a job singing in a little cafe, making She had only a few dollars but she barely enough to pay for her room knew how to make then lost a long and her meals. Suzy joined an- time. For that she might have other company playing the provinces, thanked the training she had had in but It too falled. the orphanage. She wanted luxury and she meant to have it some day rent-chiefly by buying only enough managed to pay her room. but she had never known it and so for one meal a day. Then one day
Ahe looked in her purse. dld not miss it.
She had From the start she was luckier fust one shilling left-and her rent than most girls who go to the elty, was overdue.
It was a glorious summer day but The dollars weren't quite gone--and
lier
had never roon she had not stood behind n counter dingy. She heard the landlady com- Inor waslied dishes in restaurant | FEE118
W25 when she got her arst job. Sheng up the stairs, She ran to this wasn't to be an actress, perhaps, but over the other. She couldn't risk
closet,
and began putting one on at least the was to be on the stage. trying to take a suitcase out-per- She was to be the chorus of a third rate touring company booked haps she could take most of her sold for a season in 1912 there were scanty wardrobe on her back. more road companies out than there to the landlady's pounding on the "In a minute," she called in answer to be in later
years
door. Would that sharp-eyed woman Most of the others of the company notice anything wrong? No time complained of the pay, the hotels, the
now to pin up the garments under- hours of the day exactly heaven, it saw that she had noticed plenty and hard "jumps" in day coaches at all neath.
and night. But to One look at Mrs. Beggs and Suzy it wasn't Suzy, if was 80 much
than life in an understood everything. better been that it seemed good. At least orphanage or looking for a job had she had made a start. She was on pleasant enough terms with everyone In the company but the only friend she made or wanted to make-wyns Malzic. From the start the two girls hind liked each other and they soon became good friends. Maizie, being a few years older and having been in other companies, could and did teach her a great deal
The sooner the Better
Yo
YOU, enn sow lettuce seed up to early October, but the sooner you start the better. Sow in shallow drills (that is, tiny furrows made with a stick or the corner of hoe) in, deep, and see that the ground is kept moist in dry weather.
When the seedlings enough to handle, thin out to
are 3 inches apart, and later again to 9 inches.
Each row should be a foot apart from its neighbour.
on П
arc
2 D
you like, you can transplant
the seedlings you have thinned out not a bad idea, as these will come
later fortnight
the original rows.
Hacing between the rows at least once a fortnight assists the vigorous development of the plants. It's not too Late
now.
SEEM to remember
that
or
Patricia used to have a pas- sion. for radishes, and it's not too late for you to start growing them
I should choose the round turnip-rooted kind in preference to the oval or long-rooted, as they are generally crisper, and sew short rows, in drills, thinly, to avold having to do
too much thinning Just out.
cover, the seeds by draw- ing the rake gently over the bed, and water freely in dry weather.
It is important to thin out finally to about one inch upart, but keep the seedlings well thinned before that, as they cannot grow quickly if avercrowded.
•
Don't saw a large quantity of radish seed all at once; you won't be able to use it all, and the radishes will only get tough. When the plants from your first sowing are half-grown, sow a new row, and so on; this will ensure you a continuous supply
And remember that a shady place la best for summer sowings, the ground dries out very quickly in hot weather on a sunny bed. Sow it and See
she
seemed so
woman out of her bill-talse that top "So-trying to cheat a respectable one off and the next one."
was just trying them on.
stammered Suzylo sec which would look best to go to the races in."
Mrs. Begge sniffed,
"I think I'll wear this one," said Suzy holding up the prettlest trock she had.
pose.
"And when, may I ask, are you go- Ing to pay me? To-morrow, I sup- "We'll stick with this outfit until
That seems to be your usual we get back to the big town, kid," answer to the question. And where Maizie would say.
Then we're go- may I ask, is the money coming Ink put for something bigger and from?" better. You've learned a lot this "I'm just about to, algn up with year; you won't be just a beginner one of the biggest managers in Lon- next season. I'm not so good-never don," said Suzy haughtily. will be anything to see the river aftre or the lights in front of a theatre You stick to me for a while, kid, and either, but we'll make a good team.
see what happens."
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a gener I am. The way I see it is that we'll key. When you come back with your get further together than we ever contract signed, and show it to me, will alone, What do you say?" you can come in. Not until then."
"O.K.," said Suzy.
Suzy to steady herself, took hold at the end of the season, the weary down into the street. In front of the When they returned to New York of the window frame and glanced round of managers'
offices agencies began again. They knew man was at the wheel and another and door stood a big touring car. A they could go out with the old com- was just about to step in. She had pany again in the autumn, but they a sudden inspiration. were determined to find something, "Yoo hoo!" she cried, leaning out, belter. Suddenly
by I'll be right down."
And before the surprised landlady
and
quite
AND now what about sowing chance they did, tance of Malzie's, realized what had happened or had
some parsley for Patricia to met an use for seasoning and garnishing?
acquaintance who naked them to have dinner with time to demand her key, Suzy was There is an old saying that where her. She was feeling rich because running down the stairs. parsley flourishes the wife "wears she had just aigned for a musical the breeches". I dare say, you'll find comedy going to London. The Eng-her rescuers and to herself?)
(To-morrow: Suzy brings luck to that out for yourself soon enough. Hish, It seems, were partial to Ameri- Anyway, sow some parsley now and
(To be continued.)
ፍርር.
Sow thinly, in drills hin, deep, Allowing about one foot of space between each drill. Water ofler Rowing, if the weather is dry, and thin out the seedlings to about 0in. apart. The soil should be friable and well broken up.
Parsley seeds germinate slowly, so don't be disappointed if the crop doesn't shoot out of the ground at once. It may not appear for five or six weeks, but it is well worth walt- ing for
for, for there is no plant more useful in the kitchen.
Well, so long, Harry my boy, and the of luck. When I come down to visit you later on I shall expect Patricia to produce a first-class salad, all home-grown. I shall also examine your parsley bed with Interest, and hope to discover once and for all if that old saying is true.
Your affectionate,
UNCLE HUGH. PS-Tell Patricia I will write soon as I promised, giving her a few hints for her flower borders, I'm afraid she is impatient and wants I qulek- results too.
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