Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-05-19
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From the Louisville Journal.
WOMEN AND FLOWERS.

We are not aware that any philosopher
has yet undertaken to discuss the moral
sentimental, or chemical afinilics between
woman and flowers. Nor is it necessary
.ha. philosophers shall bother their brains
on any such topic, seeing that the poets
!sa aIa Litter ,-.dsesasf snch snh iec,s. have
often found that flowers and women are
mutually illustrative of each other.
There are many varieties of flowers. just
as there are of women. Some flowers are
beautiful merely 10 the eye and exhale no
fragrance 10 the sense; SO slso there are
some women of grea. personal beauty a.
sentimen. Other flowers are exceedingly
beautiful and have delicious fragrance too,
reminding one of those rare women whose
external loveliness seems TO be the natural
reflection of the virtues that bejewel their
hearts. Olher flowers again are not at all
beautiful to the eye, and yet they are full of
the most exquisite odor. These remind US
Of those women Of external plainness, whose
minds are adorned with the gems of thought
and Of sentiment and whose hearts are the
homes of all those graces and elegancies
that live long after mere beauty of form and
color has become dim and passed away
Thus we might run through the whole cata-
logue of flowers and find for them the most
striking resemblances in the varieties Of
woman-kind.
Woman was originally placed in the
garden, and the garden even now seems to
be most appropriate place for her. She is
always seen TO advantage when she is seen
extending encouragement 10 plants that are
backwar and directing the course which
the more aspiring shall pursue. How sweet
y she tends the sickly plant which droops
its head beneath the MONDAY fervors, and
while she gives i. the sweet persuasion ol
sticks and props, and cup of cold water
it seems grateful for her genial attentions
and seems to try to look fresh and cheerful
once more! She scratches and loosens the
earth around the stem, and takes ,herefron
every weed and blade of grass tha, woult
suck up its darling life. blood. Then agair
how dex,rously she teaches the climbing
plants How delicately she assists then
in their upward efforts until step by steT
they reach the .opmost round of ambition:
ladder? Wha. taste she exhibits in the
mere arrangement, of her plants! She may
have group here and group there but she
more Frequently rejoices in combinations
of starry eyed beauties in which all the col
ors OF the rainbow shall successfully be dis
played. |. is true lha. some cold blooded
economists would say that lovely woman
thus employed in making her home beau'i-
full wastes her time, bu, the sulky fellow
might with as much reason say that wo-
man employed in developing and refining
the highes. sentiments Of her nature is vast
ing her time. Such employment OF time is
in the mobiles, sense profitable, and only she
wastes her time who neglects the beauti(y-
ing Of her home in continual efforts TO save
dime or to keep a surplus dollar in the
locker.
Let women summon around her home all
the beauty with which the Creator has en-
dowed this earth. LIE, her surround herself
with a wilderness Of sweets, and there amid
fragrance and beauty she will find that the