Non-Clashing Breed of Marigold
Produced After Ladies Complain
B7 GAIL GREENE
United Presi Correspondent
Detroit, Mich. lf Com
plaints from the nation's color-
conscious housewives has in
spired the nation's largest seed
grower to produce a marigold
which won't clash with other
flower shades.
Pleasing the thousands of lady
gardeners and flower arrangers
is how the century-old Ferry
Morse Seed Co. keeps buyers
happy.
"The ladies just didn't like
that harsh orange color mari
golds have," explained James
W. Wilson, director of consumer
relations. "That's why we devel
oped the Double Dwarf Mari
gold."
The "Double Dwarf went
Into full scale distribution for
the first time this year. "It's
pleasant gold color that will
blend well with reds and pinks
nd grows evenly fine for edg-
ing flower beds," Wilson said.
The company has found that
women don t go for muddy-colored
flowers, either.
To eliminate the dull cast
from certain petals, it spent
nearly 25 years developing the
New Century Zinnia.
Compact Flowers
"It took that long to get the
right number of clear, fresh col
ors salmon, rose, yellow, gold
and red," Wilson said.
Currently researchers are con
centrating on flowers that will
grow evenly and more compact
ly. Houses are getting lower
and people don't want leggy,
lanky flowers," Wilson ex
plained. "We keep in touch with gar
den club members, he said.
"Wiat they want in a seed is
usually what the public will de
mand a few years later keeps
us right on top of the market.
"Southerners insist on their
periwinkles." Wilson said. "It's
a carefree flower that can take
the southern heat and still
bloom.
"California has to have sweet
peas because they provide an ex
tremely early-blooming flower
they can plant in fall," h added.
Throughout the Midwest there
Is a demand for varieties that
make good cut flowers. "Flower
arranging is becoming more
popular than ever," Wilson not
ed. "We have to be careful no
to give them flowers that close
up at night.
Regional Difference!
"Farther west they want rug
ged flowers that can take the
hot summer sun."
Through the years Ferry
Morse has evolved 26 basic geo
graphical and nationality assort
ments. The geographical preferences
in vegetables is even more
marked than with flowers, Wil
son explained.
Radishes, turnips, beets, let
tuce, and other fast growing
vegetables are in demand in the
North.
Okra, collards, mustard greens
and turnips have a strong fol
lowing in the South but a boom
in the demand for these items
in Chicago and Detroit is a sign
of the population migration,
Wilson said.
The New England assortment
is stable calling for pole beans,
early corn, winter squash and
midget watermelons.
The Italian assortment, sell
ing best in several metropolitan
areas, includes red pear toma
toes, zucchini, escarole and broc
coli. "And," said Wilson, as long as
there's a Pennsylvania Dutch
appetite longing for a pea pod,
we'll stock them."
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European Gals
Much Busier
Than Americans
By CLAIRE COX
United Press Correspondent
Paris (IP) American house
wives who camplain that wom
an's work is never done haven't
seen anything yet. A tour of
Europe would open their eyes
to the fact that women never
have had it so good as in the
United States.
While American mothers have
time to play bridge, attend PTA
meetings or read a book, many
European women toil night and
day every day of the year just
to keep themselves and their
families alive.
Women's work really is never
done among large parts of the
population on this continent.
For example, a housewife usual
ly has to shop at different types
of stores for each item on her
list. Supermarkets are rare.
There are no paper bags for gro
ceries and no containers for
eggs, so a housewife must jug
gle her purchases the, best she
can.
If women have jobs, they may
work 10 to 14 hours a day. They
fill many types of jobs other
than the traditional distaff posts
of clerk or secretary.
In Germany, women are letter
carriers. They also clean streets
in some German and Finnish
towns. It's common to see them
as gas station attendants in
France and Germany or work
ing as train crossing guards,
cranking rural railroad gates up
and down by hand.
Sometimes these women have
one day off a week . . . some
times none. Waitresses in hotels-
in France and Switzerland have
been seen hard at work at 10
p.m. and scrubbing floors at 6
or 7 the next morning.
But even these jobs appear
soft, compared with the lot of
farm women in Italy, France,
Switzerland and West Germany.
On farms, household chores
are done between other tasks.
Women can be seen in fields,
hoeing, digging or steering plows
while men perch on tractors.
Farm women in Italy do the
weekly wash by hand in cold
water in a town trough. They
must make several trips a day
to ihe public pump for water
to use in the house.
A motorist driving through
Italy gave up counting the num
ber of women walking home
with tubsfiil of wet washing, in
cluding heavy sheets, balanced
on their heads.
Italian housewives have de
veloped the art of balancing pot
tery jugs full of water on their
heads and walking without a
waver along a road filled with
roaring trucks and speedy little
cars.
Another interesting sight in
Italy is a deep gorge next to
an outdoor restaurant near Villa
D'este in suburban Rome. Lunch
eon visitors look out at a water
fall and next to it, a group
of town women doing their
wash.
As a result of hard country
life, only very young and very
old-looking women are seen. It
is difficult to tell if this is be
cause it's hard to keep young
women down on the farm or
because they age before their
time.
Wednesday. July 17, 1937
MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Oldest Washington House
Faces Possible Destruction
By PATRICIA WIGGINS
United Press Correspondent
Washington IIP) The oldest
house in Washington, destroyed
once by the British 143 years
ago, faces destruction again at
the hands of Congress.
And Congress is liuely to en
counter as much opposition
within the old red brick walls
as did the British. This time the
fight will be led by the National
Women's Party, the present oc
cupants and a group experienced
on the political battlefield.
Cause of the upcoming strug
gle is a bill introduced by Sen.
Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) wnich
would add one and one-half
blocks of property, including .
historic Alva Belmont bouse, to
the Senate side of the Capitol
grounds. ,
The lawmakers, already await-:
ing completion of a new Senate
uflice building to help take care
of mushrooming committees and ,
staffs, have been eyeing the
nearby Belmont House laud for i
future needs.
Support Grows
"It's a sad thing," says Miss
Alic Paul, founder and honorary
chairman of the Women s Party,
"to see buildings which have so
much history woven around
them destroyed. "
She has rallied a growing
number of House and Senate
votes each year for her pro-,
posed "women's rights" amend
ment to the Constitution. And
she feels that 'public support
also has grown" for preservation I
of Belmont House. I
The women were joined by j
the American Society of Archi-
tects, the Capitol iiill Kestora- j
lion Society and other historical
preservation groups to success-,
lully beat ofi three previous ;
Congressional attempts to flat
ten their headquarters.
They hope sufficient support j
will be mustered again this time
and are awaiting dale of a hear
ing on the bill to rally their
forces of opposition publicly.
Last session's bill finally was re
ported out of committee but
never reached a vote.
Oldest
Belmont house is named for
Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont who
donated a previous site to the
Women's Party. That site was
destroyed to make way for the
Supreme Court Building, so the
party, which moved into Bel
mont House in 1929, would be
evicted for a second time if Hay
den's bill passed.
The house believed to be
the oldest in Washington was
part of the original grant given
Lord Baltimore by the King of
England and reportedly provid
ed the only resistance to the
British when they marched into
Washington in the summer of
1814.
A National Historical Maga
zine account says "Commodore
Barney and his men fired on the
advaneing forces from the upper
stories, killing and wounding
several of the enemy and killing
General Ross' horse. This last
indignity so enraged the general
that he immediately ordered the
house burned."
The house was rebuilt several
years later with one center por-
i tion erected in the 17th century
still intact.
The house today also holds
mementos of the women's rights
struggle. Among them are a
desk which belong to Susan B.
Aanthony and a key to the old
District of Columbia jail tem
porary home of some enthusi
astic suffragists during a 1917
demonstration which included
picketing the White House.
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