a of an ample theater, with the ascending flowers and
shrubs and trees representing the ascending tiers of seats. One feels
that all the trees and flowers look down upon the central stretch of
greensward, and perhaps there is a fairy ring here where plays take
place by night. Nothing is impossible in this garden. Certainly the
fairies play in the enchanted ring of the trees of the _salle de
verdure_. We are convinced of that.

So formal is the _tapis vert_, with its blossoming borders of larkspur
and daisies and its tall standard roses, you are surprised to find that
that part of the garden outside this prim rectangle has mysteries. There
are winding paths that terminate in marble seats. There is the
_pavilion_, a little house built for outdoor musicales, with electric
connections that make breakfast and tea possible here. There is the
guest house, and the motor house--quite as interesting as any other part
of the garden. And everywhere there are blue and white and rose-colored
flowers, planted in great masses against the black-green evergreens.

We leave America early in June, tired out with the breathless business
of living, and find ourselves in our old-world house and garden. We fall
asleep to the accompaniment of the tiny piping of the little people in
bur garden. We awake to the matins of the birds. We breakfast on the
stone terrace, with boughs of trees and clouds for our roof, and as we
look out over the masses of blue flowers and the smooth green _tapis
vert_, over the arched trelliage with its fountains and its marbles, the
great trees back of our domain frame the supremely beautiful towers of
the Chateau le Magnificent, and we are far happier than anyone deserves
to be in this wicked world!

XX

NOTES ON MANY THINGS

A LITTLE TALK ON CLOCKS.

The selection of proper clocks for one's house is always long-drawn-out,
a pursuit of real pleasure. Clocks are such necessary things the
thoughtless woman is apt to compromise, when she doesn't find exactly
the right one. How much wiser and happier she would be if she decided to
depend upon an ordinary alarm clock until the proper clock was
discovered! If she made a hobby of her quest for clocks she would find
much amusement, many other valuable objects by-the-way, and finally
exactly the right clocks for her rooms.

Everyone knows the merits and demerits of the hundreds of clocks of
commerce, and it isn't for me to go into the subject of
grandfather-cl