Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-05-19

ter, and will be far less apt TO 60 as,ray
among the briars and brsmbles Of vice and
error. The ef1ec, Of cul.ivating beauty a.
round her home will be TO cause every SEN
timent that sweetens her own existence 10
spring up into newness Of life, 10 but bud
and to blossom in ell its loveIiness. She
too will come 10 prefer display of rich
colors in her garden walks TO such display
on her own person, and learn TO appreciate
that habit which covers the form in pro-
fusion of huge and brilliant flowers printed
on muslin and which seems TO indicate en-
absence of The flowers Of sentiment and an
absolute want of that taste which shows it,
self in the cultivation Of the garden.
We would have every woman both lover
and sedulous cul,iva,or Of flowers. We
who grow and expand like weeds in the
heated apartments of gaiety and fashion and
become dried in heart and stale in sentiment,
might be rescued By timely attention 10
flowers. They would regain their los! fresh
ness, the bloom would revisit their wan and
wasted cheeks, and fresh life would ciecu-
late lis heal,hful currents through their chill
led veins. The effect would be 10 recloIhe
the saddened and auenua,ed victim of fash
ION with beauty and 10 cause flowers Of
sentiment again TO spring up in hearts which
had been overrun with weeds. Take thin
and ssllow and diseased person from the
room in which heshas respired the unwhole-
some and close atmosphere that there pre-
walls, and place him on The mountain side,
and how long will j. be before the blood in
his system, tha. has half the time been con-
geaed and only flowed las, under the i'm
pulse Of fever, will 60 merrily on its "wind-
ing way" through arteries and veins, and he
will again become strong and vigorous p
So also one who has wasted her beauty and
her freshness, the tone Of her heart and the
refinement of her sentiments, in those sa-
looms in which the atmosphere is full Of
moral disease, and where fashion and folly
dance hand in hand in positive mockery Of
all those qualities Of which men and women
have a right to boast and which ally them
TO the angelic existence, will, when trans
planted like bligh,ed flower 10 garden
and there learns how tc.zsssIi nsanseziar.
fsread of TIE pointed IDOLS sys 55s I'M fI6;sz
customed to, soon begin to regain portion
of the original oveliness of her nature, and
may by and by become entirely redeemed
from the tain, that has stolen "fre from her
eye and vigor from her limbs.'
Blessed are the women who cultivate
flowers, We have had occasion Of late TO ex-
claim while confined TO the sombre apart-
ment of sick room. Ab, these angelic
ministers 10 the wants Of The invalid How
infinitely sweeter and Ioyeller are they than
those gaudy bellies that ore happy only in
The midst of excitement. and in The conflict
of passion where the very cir becomes load
ed with impuri,y. Before US on the table,
in all its radiant beauty and fragrance, stands
a beautiful evidence Of woman's deep sym
palhy with suffering. 1t is an elegant bo-
quet composed Of a large variety of sweet
flowers arranged with exquisite Taste by 6n-
gers that are accustomed TO flowers. The
fair creature to whom we are indebted for
this most delicious boque,is indeed worthy
of all the sanctfca,ion of song. 1t was
day when he was intent on Latin, and the
sigh. of her upset his Latini!y completely
and caused him TO say OF her that she was
..Like Proserpine gathering flowers
Herself the fairest flower"
Blessings be on the heads of those who
send fowery presents to those whose enef-
gies have been desolated by disease! Flow
ers mpart not only fragrance and beauty 10
ones sick room, bu. they absolutely light
up the gloom that hangs around it like q
dark curtain, and cause cheerfulness TO take
the place of heaviness and oppression of
heart. Often has our soul felt exceedingly
grateful to these dear women who have con-
sidered our low estate and sent flowers,
fresh, fragrant, and beautiful, to cheer our
invalidism. Could we strew their path way
through life with flowers, how eagerly
would our hand perform the task Had
flowers no other office than to minister To
the Measures of the sick, lha, of itself would
be reason sufficient why they should be cul-
lva,ed. But when we remember that they
are not only an ever present JOY 10 the eye,
but are also true and genial teachers of moral
truth and excellence as we'll as tender
prompters to the highest as we'll as the mos,
refined sentiments, We can perceive of how
grea. importance it is that the hand and
heart Of " oman should become familiar with
them. Woman's power is in her loveliness,
and she ought to do everything to encour-
age it. Her loveliness has broken the bond
age in which many sinful man was bound,
and which has resisted persuasion and force
,hr ough many year. Let her. increase her
power by adding TO her loveliness, and this
she will not fail to do if she gives her heart
up to love of'lhe beautiful poetry ofearIh."
NOT BAD.-A late English writer says
that The only day an American devotes TO