The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-09-27
ANOTHER LITTER TO COUNTRY GIRLS.
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Oh, dear girls, how hard it is to stay in
doors long enough to write a whole letter
This is June-leaiy, laughing, rosy June
the birds aud the flowers are so glad and
gay,t appears like sin not to stay out
and rejoice with them. Then, there are
SO many rose bushes want tyiag up-so
many plants Of fall flowers want to be
transplanied. SO many weeds to be pulled
out, SO many boquets to be made, SO many
young chickens to be fed; and if the dogs
had not killed our sheep two years ago, this
would have been the time for picking wool.
May be this is what your doing, but mind
and do not begin to spin until the long
evenings come, when you can draw your
wheel to the fire, and laugh, sing and talk
while it is buzzng. The wheel should be
reserved for evening music until the frogs
and caiydids have ended their yearly con-
cer,s; and then it makes delightful sub
sti'u,e. love to spin in winter evenings,
but it would appear like sin now. There
are SO many little, happy, short-lived things
making the air vocal with their melody,
that it appears as if we should take time to
listen TO them, and not drown their voices
with the din OF our toll. The beautiful,
careless lilies that toll not and spin not are
ready to burst through their green cover
ings; and we ought 10 take time to look at
them. No matter how much we spin we
shal! never be arrayed like one of these!
Have you one OF them growing near your
door? Nav be not. The Great Creator
thought worth while to make them-the
Savior thought worth while to talk about
their beauty, but you never thought worth
while to plant one and take care of it
May be YOU are religious, and ride. or walk
and carry your shoes, some miles to church
on Sabbath, to hear preacher tell abou,
the glory Of Solomon; aud declare with all
his costly robes he was not arrayed like a
Ely! If you were to hear that this same
old Solomon, or any other great King was
to be exhibited, in robes Of state, in the
city, guess you would come many mile
for sight Of bis majesty. Now, what is
the reason you never thought worth while
10 hunt up lilly root, and plant it SO that
you might every year see something far
more beautifully dressed than was ever
Queen Victoria? do wish you would try
to get some this year! August or Septem-
Der is the right time to lift the roots. They
should be planted in rich loose earth, and
early in the spring they should be watched,
and busted with snuff, or often sprinkled
with soap suds; for those little red bugs
called "lady bugs" are apt to gather in the
centre, where the young leaves shoot up,
and kill the germ of the flower. The wild,
notified, meadow FLY will soon be in bloom
now, and you might get time to dig up
some, bring them home, and plant them,
before the men cnt all their heads off with
their scythes! You have yellow day it,
lies, Of course for they are so easy to get,
and require no care except planting-they
look so rich and beautiful amongst shrub.
berry! They should always be planted in
n grass patch amongst bushes, for they
form such fine contrast to the green, and
are quite able to take care Of themselves.
No grass or weeds can out grow them.
You ought to have them if only for the Ian