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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 Patricia 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

nottiod.

Instead, I'll try to tell you in this letter a few of the things you want to know about your garden.

here goes,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ·

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936.

$.3.0

Patience is a virtue, both in hun- There are two kinds, the ordin

rabbage lettuce bands and gardeners; especially in any

with crisp. ardeners, but I suppose it's no use curly leaves, and the cos lettice my telling you that at your age, so with long, straight leaves,

If Votz take my adview you'll stick U the cubbage; most lettuces have to be tied round with railla slightly above the middle when they are about half grown, to help them to form heart, which is

Start with a Salad

AS

CHAPTER ONE'

39

MOVESZETA FROM Port Bletro Goldwyn Mayer LUCY HUFFAKER

can beauties. They stopped at the

ager

A silm blond girl in i Pennsyl-theatre before they went to the res vanta orphanage, dreaming of a lite

"Can you do anything?" the man- of gaivty, of movement, of romance

asked Suzy, --an Irish lad working in a London

"Anything-everything she sald factory, dreaming of the inventions

laughingly. "And so can Malzle," which some day he would work out

"Well I don't take anybody's word for anything, but we need a couple

girl-show up mord

rehearsal at to-morrow for try-oul"

young aristocrat in Paris dream- In of the day when he would fly plane high above the world-a charting woman of the world, here, there mnd everywhere, planning rauier than dreaming of the im- portant things she would do

They were miles apart in back- ground.

and character as ambition well as a space, That they would ever play a part in each others' lives, or even see each other in passing, would have seemed impossible. But fate, chance, necident-whatever it is called has a way of bringing about the most fantastic events. It knows no laws but its own unfathomable ones,

So Suzy was on her way at Isl. "We're the two luckiest girls in the world," said Malzle Just before the opening in London. "Here we яте where we never thought of be-

n

In a show which is bound to be hit. Why, it is too good to be true," That last statement proved to be all too true. Once again the English proved that their idea of humour was not that of the Americans and

after a few weeks, the company lisbanded.

"So now what?" said Malzie as they were packing their "suitcases to leave the theatre. Sall for another the look at Liberty Bghting up world.

It was Suzy Trent who had the furthest to go toward the fryst the four dissimilar characters were to keep. When she was a little girl, "Not me," said Suzy, "I'm staying! scarcely more than a baby, she would right on In this town for a while." fell herself that some day she was At first they were full of hope, but going to travel to fur places, Where there came a day when ever their neither --it scarcely mattered, just so she high spirits flagged and could leave behind forever that would volee 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 find a way,

rican girls, who wanted to act or sing or dance.

Οι

was

it

"I don't care at the start," she would say to herself ercely, "it I Matzle decided they should go to have to stand behind a counter all Paris-there might be something for day in a store, if have to wash them there and anyway a change dishes in cheap restaurant-I'm go-

would be good for them. But their ing places and see things and have money was running very low, KO things before I'm many years older." decided that Suzy should stay course she dreamed of being on in their London lodging house an actress what young girl doesn't while Maizle should cross the chop- Whether she had any lulent or not nel. Surely one of them would and she did not know. But she knew she something reon and send for the bad two things which were an asset other. cos-beauty

determination, So Se Suzy was left alone in London. she Maizie wrote she had tried everything when the left the orphanage, went straight to New York-of but the best she could do was to get a job singing in a little cafe, making She had only a few dollars but she barely enough to pay for her room her meals. Suzy joined on- knew how to make them last a long

and time. For that she might have other company playing the provinces, thanked the training she had had in but it too, failed.

She had managed to pay her room the orplumage. She wanted luxury and she meant to have it some day rent-chiefly by buying only enough day. Then one day but the had never, known it and so for one ment

she looked in her purse. She had she did not miss sit.

Besides, the cabbage lettuces taste

S you have only a very small piot, you won't have room You say Patricia has undertaken for nach in the way of vegetables, a nuisance, to Inpk after the flowers, while you so why not try growing salads? want to grow a few vegetables as I should begin with lettuce; it's nicir; but that is purely my own quickly as possible, as a surprise for rusy to grow, and should come up opinion. Try both if you like, and her. Well, it nounds as if you were quickly. Innlevd. If it doesn't come see for yourself, only if you grow beginning well, last you mustn't be up quickly it won't be much ute, cos, don't forget that tip about lying In too much of a hurry.

for the plants will be tough.

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pooner you start the better. Sow in shallow drills (that is, tiny furrows made with a stick or the corner of a hoop in, deep, and see that the

rourse.

For

was overdue.

From the start she was luckier Just one shilling left-and her rent than most girls who go to the city,

It was a glorious summer day but The dollars weren't quite gone-andor room had never seemed so she had not stood behind a counteringy. She heard the landlady com- nor washed dishes in a restaurant- when she got her first job. She up the stairs. She ran to tho and began putting one on wasn't to be an actress, perhaps, bu over the other. She couldn't rais

but closet, at least she was to be on the stage. She was to be in the chorus of trying to talte a suitcase out-per- take most of her haps she could third rate touring company booked the seedlings are large solid for a season-In 1912 there were scanty wardrobe on her back.

more rand companies out than there to the landlady's pounding on the were to be in later years,

ground as kept moist in stry weather.

When enough to handle, thin out to 2 or inches apart, and later again to

"Bach 9 inches,

row should be a font apart from its neighbour.

If you like, you can transplant the seedlings you have thinned out; not a bad idea, as these will comu

on

fortnight later than. the original rows.

Hocing between the rows at least once a fortnight assists the vigorous development of the plants.

| It's not too Late-

I.SEEM

to remember that Patricia used to have a pas- sion for radishes, and it's not too late for you to start growing them now.

I should choose the round or turnip-rooted kind In preference In the oval or long-rooted, as they are generally crisper, and sow short drills, thinly, rows, in

to nvold having

too much thinning aut., Just cover the seeds by draw- ing the rake gently over the bed, and water freely in dry weather.

to do

It is important to thin out finally to about one inch apart, but keep Ue seedlings well thinned before that, as they cannot grow quickly if overcrowded.

Don't sow 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 is best for summer sowings; the ground dries out very quickly in hot weather on a sunny bed.

Sow it and See

A

ND now what about sowing some parsley for Patricia to use for seasoning and garnishing?

There is an old saying that where parsley flourishes the wife "wears the breeches"! I dare say you'll find that out for yourself soon enough. Anyway, sow some parsley now and

sce.

Sow thinly, in drills in, deep, allowing about one foot of space between ench drill. Water fler sowing, If the weather is dry, and thin out the seedings to about 6in. apart. The soll should be friable and well broken up.

Parsley seeds germinate slowly. so don't be disappointed it the crop doesn't shoot out of the ground at once, It may not appear for five or Fix weeks, but it is well worth wait- Ing for, for there no plant more useful in the kitchen.

Well, so long, Harry my boy, and the best of luck. When I came down to visit you later on I shall expect Patricia to produce a first-class solad, all home-grown. I shall also examine your parsley bed with Interest, and hope to discover once und for all if that old saying is true.

Your affectionate,

· UNCLE, HUGH. PS-Teli Patriein I will write soon as I promised, giving her a few hinta for her flower borders. I'm afraid she is impatient and wants quick results too.

n

"In minute," she called in answer

door. Would that share-eyed woman Mest of the others of the company notice anything wrong? No time complained of the pay, the hotels, the hard "Jumps" in day couches at all now to pin up the garments under-

reath. hours of the day

and

night. But, to One look at Mrs. Begge and Suzy Suzy, if it wasn't exactly heaven, it saw that she had noticed plenty and Su was so much better than life in an understood everything.

Toolting for 11 Job had

"So-trying to cheat a respectable orphanage or been that It seemed good. At least woman out of her she had made a start. She was on one offmand the bill-take that top

next one. pleasant enough terms with ever

everyone

WDB just

ust trying them

on," friend only.

slammered... Suzy "lo sce.which she madey but the

wanted to make was would look best to go to the races in." Maizic, From the start the two girls Mrs

Beggs sniffed. had liked each other and they soon "I think I'll wear this one," said became good friends. Matzie, being Suzy holding up the prettiest frock a few years older and having been in the bad.. other companies, could and did teach "And when, may I ask, are you go- her a great deal,

Ing to pay met To-morrow, I sup- pose. That seems to be your usual answer to the question. And where may ask, is the money coming

In the

"We'll stick with this outfit uni!l we get back to the big town, tid, Muizie would say. "Then we're go- try! out for something bigger and beiter. You've learned a lot this year; you won't be just a beginner will be anything to see the river are next season. I'm not so good-never

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we'll make a good team, but we'll You stick to me for a while, kid, and

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"O.K.," sald Suzy.

Suzy to

to steady herself, took hold When they returned to New York of the window frame and glanced at the end of the season, the weary down into the street. In front of the round of managers' offices and door stood a big touring car. A agencles began again. They knew man was, at the wheel and another they could go out with the old com-was just about to step in. She had were determined to find something he right down." pany again in the autumn, but they a sudden inspiration.

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