The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-04-10

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ING slse for ye1 ildrenb 60 pnt
trees. Do not bring them up without >
kaowledes 81 wSG Mis W lows Nat1fs -
one Of her most beautiful manifestations.-
Let not their young affections be erisped By
the bare brick walls Of shadeless streets
along which the sun ct noon-day pours down
his hottest beams. Plant trees, and let the
wee things assist you vhi1s yoa. doit. Let
tsd1liae Jtnny help you while You prepare
tho bed in which Il isio be placed; let Char
10y bring the water With wkisA You moisten
the roots and mulch them ii shs quicksning
earth; let Ann or Jennie hold upright -
slender trunk while You shovel in tho cod.
Plant one for each. Let this be Charley's,
that Ann's, this in the corner is Nellie's, and
that at the end. of the walk shall be Jim's.
Think you they will not love them? Think
you, when you are dead and gone, they viii
not make pilgrimages to the spot with Their
children and point ont where You stood; thst
they viii not repeat Whist you said; tbak they
will not struggle to repress the rising tear,
that the old place calls ups oh, you OF little
faith! 1850 r.ssv. a4g-
Plan. trees for yourself Tie walls inside
your rooms are hung with landscapes In
which trees are tho principal feature. You
insist that yopr friends admire them, and
you declare that You love and appreciate
them yourself. You point to the delicacy
Of tint here, the reflected sunlight there and
Tho sombrc shadows beneath. But, though
il gilt frame, enA room whore gaudy
painters and vulgar upholsters have done
their worst, they are all mean and tawdry
compared with the living trees that the Great
Mastse has caused to grow. That daub cost
you ! handsome sum bat yoa ca1not or do
| not spare the tribe which, expended ~ W
would wish, would give you pleasure that
the painting never can confer. u
Plant trees for your neighbors. We fear
that you are doing nothing to insure your
remembrance in the busy world that you
cannot be part of forever. Yoa haye been
lucky in trade; have amasssd money in corn;
have become half millionairs In real g.
tate. Trees outlast fortunes. Storms toss
their branches and sway their trunks, but
the gentle breeze kisses their foliage to- NOR
row and they give no sign Of the trial they
have passed. Not % your riches. You have
done little in the way OF making the world
more beautiful or happy. 1t il not too late
to begin now. Begin with the cheapest
method: plant trees that viii live when you
have given up riches and gone where they
4 are of no use; but where . cultivated sense
Of the good and the beautiful count more
than oil the gold of Ophir. A " '''
Plant trees, if you will speculate for their
moneys worth. Make that vacant lot, every
year rising in value, rise more rapidly, ~
the trees you put on it cause it to be more
and more attractive and marketable. Hide
the decaying front Of that tenement occupied
by your poorer nsighbor, Of whose industry
you live, and who, by the way, you are
grinding rather harshly in the way Of rent
hide il with . coronal Of living green,
that will more than compensate for the want
of paint or the lack Of skill in the wooden
architect who designed it. Trees are money
in every city; and more than anywhere else,
where Nature, in her gifts of the beautiful,
has been so niggard. Relieve the fatness
of surface, and destroy the unbroken CONT.
nuity Of view, by trees. If the lot is vet,
and of little value, there 10 the more neces-
sity for the beauty that trees will give. II
it is high and dry, trees will grow the bet
ter thereon. Put money in thy purse-and
! nlant treea .s... III EGGS