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Does she dare approach

marriage

without knowing the truth about feminine hygiene?

MARRIAGE brings many new ideas and new outlooks to the Soung wife. In mostways she has pre are ' herself _for the new responsibilities. et in one vital matter how often does she approach the new life blindly! We refer to the intimate subject of feminine hygiene.

On no other subject is it easier to get in- correct or misleading information. Yet in this enlightened day there is no excusefor any woman’s running therisks that follow

the use of poisonous annseptics.

Wby Zonite is recommended for feminine hygiene

It is not strangethatwomenhaveshunned

this whole subject. Just the thought of

using owerful poisonous anriseptics is

distur ing. And today physicians actually

know what deadly effect these com ounds roduce upon delicate inter mem- ranes.

But how can real surgical cleanliness be attained without resort to bichloride of mercury or carbolic acid compounds? The answer is Zonite, the famous non- oisonous antiseptic of the World War. nite will not irritate. Nor will it cause areas of scar-tissue. Yet it is actually far stronger than any dilution of carbolic acid that can be allowed on the body.

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Early Canadian Gardens

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home for himself in this new land similar to thzit which he had been accustomed to.”

A period followed known as “the Great Immigration" time, and during this period, we find from old records that :1 landscapist from Holland, one Andre Parmeiitier, who had established himself in Brooklyn, N.Y., had visited Lower Canada, surveyed and laid out two hundred and three gardens in the vicinity of Montreal. He planted these with material grown in his own nurse- ries at Brooklyn. There are even earlier records, however, from which we glean the fact that Mr. James McGill had purchased Burnside Manor, “a beautiful estate of forty-six acres lying on the slope between Mount Royal and the river,” and had “built a handsome home and laid out ﬁne gardens.”

When the Strickland sisters arrived in Canada, about 1832, Mrs. Traill, though unable to inspect the town of Montreal to any extent, because of an outbreak of cholera, writes: “The houses are inter- spersed with gardens and pleasant walks which look vei y agreeable from the windows of the ball-room of the Nelson Hotel.”

Later Mrs. Traill mentions the verandahs, or “stoups” as these were then called, add- ing: “Few houses, either log or frame, are without them. The pillars look extremely pretty, wreathed with the luxuriant hop- vine, mixed with scarlet creeper and ‘morn- ing glory,’ the American name for the most splendid of major convolvuluses.”

‘It would be unfair to omit Mrs. Trail1’s delightful description of her own home surroundings. In 1835 she wrote: “We are having the garden, which hitherto has been nothing but a square enclosure for vegetables, laid out in a prettier form; two half circular wings sweep from the entrance to each side of the house; the fence is of rude basket or hurdle-work, such as you see at home, called by the country-folk wattled fence. This fence is much more picturesque than those usually put up of split timber. Along this enclosure I have been planting a sort of ﬂowery hedge with some of the native shrubs that abound in our woods and lake-shore. Among those already introduced are two species of shrubby honeysuckles, white- and rose- blossomed.”

Mention is also made of the spireas, roses, leather-wood, fragrant daphne, wild gooseberry, red and black currants, and “two bearing shoots of the purple wild grapes from the island near us, which I long to see in fruit.”

ANOTHER writer of this period, [Mrs Jameson, in a letter to her sister, says: “The house is very pretty and compact, and the garden will be beautifulpbut I take no pleasure in anything,” and, although personal trouble prevented her from being happy in her husband's Toronto home, she was able to enjoy the homes and gardens which she saw en route from Niagara, through Brantford and Woodstock, in order to visit Colonel Talbot at Talbotville. Here she writes of the gardens and orchards planted with European fruits, and adds: “What delighted me beyond anything else was a garden of more than two acres, very neatly laid out and enclosed . . . It abounds in roses of different kinds, cuttings of which he brought himself from England in the few visits he made there.”

Mrs. Jameson, however, saw a number of rose-gardens and orchards which pleased her as she journeyed through Chatham and the district to Detroit. Possibly she touched a Canadian note more nearly than she imagined. When writing of “Stamford Park” she said it combined “the old world ideas of an elegant, well-furnished English

villa and ornamented grounds, with some of the grandest and wildest features of thf‘ forest,” adding: “It enchanted me alto- gether.” _

In this same district of Niagara we learn. through the biography Of H01’!- Merritt (1851), that he “employed a young Englishman by the name of Edward James, a gardener by profession, who had lately arrived from England, where he had been employed in the royal gardens, under H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. This gardener was to lay out the improvements aY0lmd his (Mr. Merritt’s) residence on Yate Street, and what is now known as ‘side hill. The whole resulted in the beautiful esplanade, which cost our subject several thousand dollars, as well as affording a sightly street- walk.”

According to an old volume at hand, there was a nursery established at St. Catharines prior to this, and, also one ad- vertized as located “one and a half miles from the market-place, on the Kingston Road, Toronto,” where seeds and plants not only of the useful but ornamental varieties were offered for sale—ﬂowering shrubs, roses, herbaceous plants, such as home-gardeners, making beautiful their surroundings, would require. That there were such home-gardeners is evidenced by the fact that horticultural societies existed and ﬂower shows were held, and the Botani- cal Soeiety, which was organized in 1860, sought, as do live horticulturists today, to have botanical and experimental gardens established.

One of the early day writers speaking of the home surroundings of those bygone times wrote as follows: “Our forefathers set their homes a very short distance off the main roads; they planted ﬂower gardens in front and vegetables in the rear. In the pioneers’ gardens, stocks and pinks and lilies-of-the-valley grew beside sweet-william, foxglove, asters, and blue bachelor’s buttons. Mignonette and southernwood perfumed the air. Mistresses cherished cabbage and blush rose-bushes; purple lilacs and acacia grew beside the porch and beneath the window."

IT MUST be freely admitted that into the first picture at least, the log fence loomed large; yet, as Isabel Skelton in “The Backwoods Woman" says: “they were a rather picturesque addition to the vista, particularly after they settled a little into the soil, and goldeiirod, hop-vines and summer weeds and ﬂowers grew along or over them at random.”

Despite the fact that log fences did pre- vail pretty generally, E. A. Talbot in “Five years residence in the Canadas" writes: “Between Fort George and Queenston is the most alluring portion of the Province, the neighborhood of Sandwich and Amers- burg excepted. Fine farms, ﬂourishing Orchards. and comfortable cottages, give it the air of an European Landscape, and if it were not for the rail fences, it might fairly stand in competition with some of phe most beautiful districts of the British

sles.” ‘

As Byron once said: “thebes of the future is the past,” anti (f.‘lfl¥c)SI:)l:l31.:lt)S7 day efforts to create and bequeath beauty should prove a great incentive to those making gardens here today. The pioneers sowed, often amid hardships and discourage. merit, but as the years pass the harvest of their efforts becomes more and more ap- parent. The call is to us all to continue the good work which we know was started when Canada was very young, that succeeding generations may in turn be beneﬂtted, for . . . in today already walks tomorrow.”

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