Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-19

straw untl she had selected sufficient guam
tity of the long anSroken spears. Then.
taking these carefully back in her apron, she
spread them on the grass, dampeued and
turned them from day to day, and further
improved their color by the transforming
effect of sulphur when she applied herself
faithfully to the task of braiding these, and
with such success that she produced bonnet
which, to speak in mild terms, wonld quite
astound you if you were TO see it. Mrs.
Petsv had her reward on the following San
day. She walked into the meeting house,
and met the astonished gaze of all the neigh
hors, with the proud consciousness of being
The FIRST in that locality who had introduced
the new fashion Do you need 10 be told
that not many weeks of that summer had
passed before every matron and maiden Of the
country surrounding had each in her posses
sior one of those ngly, Yide-front, steeple-
crowned hats
:. Ycs," said the Professor, ayailing him
self of a pause, = for once the vanity OF
woman produced some practical good as
from this small beginning has arisen a great
branch Of industry, which in Massachusetts
alone employs 10000 persons, and produces
6 900 600 hats and bonnets annually
I'm addition" continued viii, without
being diverted by the last interruption. q
will furnish you one more suggestion, and
with that shall consider my duty done. That
is, be sure in ending your essay, to tack on a
moral Why, our Professor is as anxious
for Us to reduce all things to the analogy OF
life, as was ever the respected Tony Weller
to have his son Samivel spell his name
with We
.. Let NE furnish the moral said I.
. I've bses thinking of it while the rest have
been talking, and | certainly must contribute
my share towards JeHnie's enlightenment.
Now in tracing things back to their causes.
we shall ultimately arrive at that which pro-
dueed the subject of our talk Irefer to that
most beautiful Of sights, a field of ripened
grain, lit up by the early autumn sunlight,
waving before tie wind in long bIlIowy
surees This Is the despair Of all artists !;
the finest pencil, the most delicate tints OF
color, only serve to show how impOtent Is
man before Nat ure's Great Inspired Artist
NYe will not paus here aud descant, as we
might, upon the fanciiul humility pictured
forth in the bowling Of the bearded head OF
the full -kerneled wheat, while the empty
husks. not borne down by the weight of fully
developed grains, stand proud and erect.
No. let Us rather take our moral from diff
fcrent standpoint. You viii rocolloct that
in this field of waving beauty the cereal
grains, 50 finely packed in their bearded
sheaths. are not alone Of worth The stalk,
which performs the humble Office of support
er. is utilized IN manifold Offices which salts
fy as many manifold wants in the economy
of life 1t Is true. these wants are not all
important TO tie existence of being, but it i
true that this existence would he
very barren and comlortless without them.
From this fact derive much comfort, which
others perhaps share with me. 1t is this
Though all of us are not endowed by nature
With great ana rare gifts. such as result IN
stirring deeds and grand achievements, still.
in Gods great economy of life there are
awaiting various inches which you and l alone
can fill and, If well filled. will as much
procure for Us tie Looming plaudit in the
hercaltc-. as viii be awarded to those great
ana gifted souls from whom greater require
ments are cxacted. J.N.B
Troy. \. Y. April 10. 1871.