Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-08-26

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ne # SO highly. What in the world
can people in her circumstances want
with flowers?
aJust the same that DO - replied
Florence calmly. "Have you never
noticed that the little girl never come
here without looking wistfully at the
opening buds? And don't you re,
member the morning when she asked
me so prettily if / would let her
mother come and see il. she was so
fond Of flowers2'
aBut, Florence, only think of this
rare flower standing on a table with
ham, eggs, chees se and flour, and ST.
fled in the close little rooms Whe ere
Mrs. Stephens and her daughter
manage to wash, iron, cook, and q TO-
body knows what beside.
sWell, Kate, and if I we're obliged
to live in one coarse. room, and wash,
iron, and cook, as you say IF | had
to spend every moment of my tilhe
in hard toll, with no prospect from
my window but a brick sidewalk, or
a dirty lane, such a flower as this
would be untold hap ppiness to me.
fPshaw, Florence-all sentiment;
poor people have no time to. be
Sentimental; besides, I don't think it
will grow with them--it is a green
house flower, and used to delicat
living
i.Oh, as to that, a flower never IN
quires whether its, owner be rich or
poor; and Mrs. Stephens, whatever
ELSE she has not, has sunshine Of as
gobd quality as that which streams
Though our window. The beautiful
things that God makes are the gifts
of aH alike. Yo u will see my little
rose will be as wen and merry in Mrs
Stephens room as In ours:
I..Well, after all, how odd! When
one gives to poor people one wants
to give them something useiu la q
bushel of potatoes or ham, 1or eA-
ample"
I'Why, certainly, potatoes and ham
must be had; but, having admins
tered to the first and most craving
wants, why not add any llttl le pleas
ures or qualifications that we may
have in our pow er to give. | know
that there are many of the poor who
have fine feeling and a keen sense ol
the beautiful, which rusts out and
dies because they are too hard press
ed to procure it one gratficatlon--
Poor Mrs. Stephens, for example;
ii know she whould enjoy birds and
flowers, and music as much as L DO.
I have seen her eye kindIe as sh6 has
looked on these things in our draw
inc room. and vet not one beautiful
thing can she command From ne
cessity her room, her clothing al
that She has, must be coarse and
plain. You should have seen the
almost rapture that she and Mary 8.
! felt when | offered them my rose.
xeDaar ma all lIthiS NAV be true,
butt never thought of it before |
never thoughRthht these hard wor K
ing people had any idea of taSte- :.
s.Then why do you see so Oft Fn
The geranium or rose carefully ahd
tenderly nursed in an old cracked Yea
pot, in the poores st room, or morning
glories planted in a box and made te
twine around the window. Do not
all these show that every hum hn
| heart vearns- after the beautiful +
You remember how Mary our WASH
er-woman, sat up a whole night, bf
ter a bard days work, that she
might make her first baby a preqty
little dress to beIbaptlzed In 4
fYes, | remember. and | laugh
at you for making such a tasty ut Fle
cap for it."
! "Well, Katy, ! think that the lopk
of perfect delight and satlsfact1lor
with which the poor girl regarded
her baby in its new dress and ehp
was something worth creating; l Id(
believe she could not have thanked
me more if | hal sent her a barre
of flour"
/ s.Well ] nevd h before thought o
4 giving the poor anything but what
] they really needed, and | have Ial
ways been willing to do that, whek
could without going far out of thy
way"
/ sWell, cousin, if our Heavenly
Father gave to Us as we of'en give
Io,,IJ boua only coarse. ShdDe