Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-06-04


is scarce even cottage in this country that
does not contain an invaluable, certain, i'm
mediate remedy for such events, nothing
more than dessert spoonful of made mus
tard, mixed in tumbler of warm water, and
drank Immediately. 1t acts as an emetic,
is always ready, and may be used with safe
ty in any case where one is required. By
making this simple antdote known you may
be the means of saving many a fellowcrea-
ture from an untimely end.''
FLowERs.-T are wants among men
that do not become wants until we commence
to crafty them, and then they grow by what
they feed on, until we wonder how we could
live without them. And we appreciate and
enjoy the various modes Of their qualification,
and we thank God that we have learned
these wants, and that he has afforded the
means to crafty them. Among the things
that thus become necessities, books, music,
all works of art, and lastly only because we
design here and now to talk about them,
flowers. The man who lives and works and
bargains-has family and thinks he enjoys
himesef while
The primrose on the rivers brim,
yellow primrose is to him, 4
And nothing more.
awakes to new sense of enjoyment and has
opened up to him a richer store of fresh,
pure, refining qualification than he before
deemed himself capable of understanding
when he recognizes the ministrations of the
primrose "a man that loves flowers cannot
be cruel man," was the remark of stout,
hearty, strong-minded farmer as he stood
with us looking at the crocus and hyacinth,
flowers just bursting into bloom on one
bright spring morning many years ago. We
thought the remark true then, and we have
found it so since, and believe that cruel,
selfish temperament is incompatible with
these manifestations of the good Father
A farmer of large lands and of the old time
told us that he had daughter who loved
flowers, and from the love he bore to his
child he was accustomed to allow her por-
ton of ground about the house for the in
diligence of her fancy, and thus the naked,
uncomfortable looking, weather beaten, dismal
old two-story house became soon covered with
vines and the garden glad with the bright
beauty of flowers. The neighbors who were
not much in the habit of "varegating their
houses" soon began to appreciate the differ
ence, and were all doing something to i'm
prove and beautify their homesteads, and all
about him things look pleasanter than they
used to- ..f3
Who among the daughters of our farmers
will become ministers of good in this way in
the coming season? Can any qualification
be purer than that arising from the feeling
that home is made more attractive by your
taste and skill? In the hot summer when
the labors of the day are over and the family
are gathered on the door-stone or in the cool
parlor, and the refreshing breeze ministers
yet more gratefully to the tired fathers and
brothers that it is laden with the odor of
honeysuckles and roses of your planting and
nursing, do you not believe that their absence
would be a deprivation you could scarcely
consent to? Try it. Clothe your porch
with odor-giving plants, and let your flower
beds lie where the breeze as it goes over
there will bring their pleasant fragrance to
the house, and you have given home new
charm. The flowers as you care for them
will make themselves your friends You
will soon learn to love them as if they were
animate things and could reciprocate your
love, and do they not, more surely than
human friends? They are grateful for care
and repay it in the measure it is given.-
They thrive, and in their own development
return large reward for the pains we bestow
upon them. Try it, this summer, get some
thing about the house that will look pretty,
and, our word for it, you will find a new
qualification that has no limit in it's exercise,