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Large White Sow, Caldmore, Miss Hollingswortb, 3rd.
~\ prize• winnin~ so~ of high qualit).
Bred by Mr. Rowland P. Ha)nes, \\ ednesbury, Stalls.
[" Farm tmd liQIIIi:. "}
Shops that Talk.
0 women I know
T \v tdb
a ston.
have started a shop v.h1ch
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1 hP} were gctrdener~ in war~time. '1 ht') have
now jomC'd two friends who run a markt t gard~:n.
lhe produce is sold by the two one-time war~\\Orkers
in an entir<'ly new, delightful manner.
• \ fe•w days ago I visited th<> shop. "I he· story
of 1 .u h vari{'ty of fruit or vegt-tabl(' \\as told m a
f('\\' \\Ord .... on a ( IC'an white placard attach<..' . . , for lnc;tr<.- a vtllage in K rnt wa~ namt'd)
1·arl) thi-. morning; they came up to Co\'ent Gnrdf'n
on th<' 5.30 n.m. train, and \\'<' bought o;;r\Nal
l>a .... kt r.... a lilt!•· flftcr S<'Ven."
(he lt•ttuc<· . . , l learnl'd, came from thl' m.1rket
g arden itself ' ,&l..,o the 01·a~
,._ • ea rh t rt'nrh 1' IX'an~.
and hot~housP tomatoes
Vegetabl<" from • ranee
were -.o marked with n bri~f (':xplanation or their
appan rll high c.~st ; where any -;pectal thing had
..,uffercd from lark of rain it was so stated. I n fart,
th•· public Wl're taken entirely into the confid<'OC('
(If lhC' two <'ntuprising saleswomen, with th<. r<>,~tlt
th,\t lhC'rt" wac; nn eager crowd of buyer'> out-.1dc.
lh•• Opt'n shop almost every hour of the day.
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It i-. rl<.'ar thnsP romance in trade, b u t few prople
:.r!' awMe of it.
It ha-, not, .tppnrf'nth, occurn:d to shopke<>per~
that the1r cu~tomer~ might be interested to know
that their buw·r c<.~me from a farm in Orvon . . hirc
run by ex-soldiers, or that thl'tr kmttt><.l jumiXr-.
had been made b;. lri ... h g1rb tn Donegal, or tl)
give the story of the Frt>nch f.J.t tor) \'which turnf'd
out ::.uch pt:tfcdly fitttng glon -. .
~hopping would be to women ''" t.;\'Cn greater
fiC'ltght th sh0pkeep«· r ~
t0ok U:i mto lhl'ir ronhdtncc a-, n\) two gardf'ning-
womf'n h.I\'C done telhng u-, th" ~tor)" of the thin~
th•·y k~'<·p in thcar ..,hop..,.-(13. D. 10 the " Dally
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I fe whi<:h mny fairl~ come und• r
0 F all tlw the h· 1d s of of n:crf'ation
tht-re is noth ng more
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grt'at, morP n·fre:.htng, mort' bcncficiaut\ of
th• '' orld.
"'ome people ran not fN>I it. To l>Ut h
JX'Oph I c.lll only ... ay, a ... ·1 urn1·r once c;a'd to a l.1dv
who complatncd th:1t :,he could not ~ee c,urN!ts ~•" hl'
painted thf·m, "Don't )OU \\bh ~ou could,
muclam? ., nut to tho ... ~ who h.wc some (4-eling that
the natur.tl wodd h~" b .tutv in it 1 \-.:ould ... ay, Cul-
l h·ate th1s f1'('ling nnd ('ncouragc it in ever) wav ~ ou
Consider th<' <.cason<>, th1• joy of the sprin~.
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tht• c;pl~'ndour of the. summer, tlw sunsl't coloYrs of
tht .nttUll\0, tht" UCitC:'Itf' <.tnd graceful b:lf('nt <.S or
\\'inkr trt l .... , the bc-nuty of <.now •. thf" br-aul\· of
ltght upon wat('~, what the old (Jrl-ck c,tlkd the
unnumlwre