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solid comfort. Oil heat is really wonderful, but isn’t a fireâ€"place cosy? _ _ I AcrOSs the hall from the livmg room is the dining room, a trifle smaller than the liVing room. It has a bay window also. This room is furnished with a wedding presentâ€"our mahogany dining room suite, a lovely table, six chairs with blue corduroy seats and a beautiful china cabinet. Aren’t we fortunate! With these rooms in order, I can spend an hour in my garden. The baby can watch me if she wakens. My garden is larger this year and more varied in its contents, When I look at it I wonder if my ambition is greater than my strength, and the time needed for its care more than is available. I have two rOWS of healthy strawberry plants. There are actually four varieties, each bearing fruit at a different time. I have a row of raspberries which will give me plenty of fruit to preserve. Raspberry tarts with whip- ped cream can be most delicious. The vegeâ€" tables I grow are only those of which we are particularly fondâ€"lettuce. carrots, beets, tomatoes and corn. We built our house in ’50 and ’51 and while we are working at it, the grounds are not fully landscaped. I planted my flowers in rows along with the vegetables. At least I’ll have flowers for the table, I plan to have a perennial border along the driveway on the east. As a start I have planted several clumps of iris and some poppy plants. This border will grow with the years. Only the terrace of the front lawn is sodded. Eventually we will have low growing shrubs beneath the front bay windows. This year we have tulips. My husband is quite proud of his first attempt at grass growing. The west side of our house is green with tender new grass. ‘k ‘k 1' THE READING MOTHER By Strickland Gillilan You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be â€" I had a Mother who read to me. I had a Morher who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth, “Blackbirds” slowed in the hold beneath. I had a Morher who read me lays Of ancient and gallant and golden days; Stories of Marmiun and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. I had a Mother who read me tales Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales True to his trust till his tragic death ’ Faithfulness blast with his final meals I had a Mother who read me thin 5 That wholesome life to the bogy heart brings â€" Stories that stir with an upward [ouch Oh, that each mother of boys were such! You may have tangible wealth untold- caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. I Richer than I you can never be -â€" I had a Mother who read to me. 16 With the first sound of baby waking, [1mm it is time to begin preparations for llll: n53; meal. I try to make the meals I serve vane; and appetizing, with special emphasis on Vega tables and protein food. I try to Ulnserv. electricity and often concentrate on H“ We: meal. I avoid fried foods as much as Mamie The upstairs needs some attention. At the' head of the stairs is our bedroom with com. bination shower and tub bath, Blue shrin and Window curtains, blue and grth 1mm: match the grey floor with its blue ammoné tile centre. When we paint the plaster. ‘ would like a most delicate shade of pink, Like the first floor we have four roo; fm bedrooms upstairs, six clothes closets . ,1 m0 linen closets, When I see how quiptn; me hardwood floors collect dust I wish . had wall to wall carpets but the floors 100;, lovely when they‘re clean. We have what we think is an antit bed. room suiteâ€"a marble topped dresser ith a huge mirror, a marble topped wash si vi and a queer high bed. If this suite is not ejquE we're going to cut the bed down to more modern height and refinish it. How many times have I been asked hat 1 was going to put in the big upstairs .ll I wanted a place outâ€"ofâ€"theaway for no askâ€" a dream of the futureâ€"and the spot from of the window seemed the ideal lOCatlD Sug» gestions offered included a sewing li iine. a couch or a ternary. You’ll be amusn then I tell you what piece of furniture occu. our hall. Baby's Crib. I cannot bear to h her in a room by herself. Across the hall fr i our room is a lovely big room containin: oth- ing. Maybe we’ll furnish it next. We reach our attic through a hol: the ceiling of the clothes closet in the her bedâ€" room. The effort needed to climb a she, lder prevents me from storing anything i the most necessary items. Our cellar is not so fortunate. I c tore things in it. Wash day is not a day i 0f dread for me. I have a good washing '1. nine and convenient enamel laundry tubs. an?! the washing winter and summer on in} :lley clothesline except when it rains. The' use the lines in the cellar. Under the front porch is my fruit o. -r. I have five shelves for fruits and jams. : .1le them last year. There is plenty of . 1:839 space for pumpkins, apples, potatoes anti mat» ever other crops we wish to store. Ju this week (in the month of June) I baked a. 91319 pie filled with apples from our cellar Down cellar is the garage and cistern her the kitchen and den reSpectively. Wt. ‘IEVE easy access to our house from the gal‘ag' ‘ “Ch a comfort on a cold winter night. What is that in the corner of the If ll??? You’ll never guess. That is my wood am. When we were building I picked up 3“ the odd bits of wood that had been classifl as useless and piled them down cellar, We have enough incl for the fireplace for two or three years anyway. HOME Ann comm