Plant corn on poor land, and it will mature and yield a small crop. "Soil Culture" by J. H. Walden

As nearly as I could understand by the long conversations we had together she belongs to that class of mature women who in early years dressed up their future in spotless white, with very bright adornings, and because they found it wearing a most common, practical garb, turned away from its proffers of good to grieve and grow discontented. "Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale" by Ida Glenwood