Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-21

The SHAH AMONG THE WOMEN = New
York Tribune Letter. Next to the grass and
trees, or perhaps before the women OF England
have had the honor to interest the Shah, re-
,,,r];np them naturally from the Oriental point
of view, His majesty has made o number OF
remarks which will scarcely bear repetition in
nript, The prevailing fashion of dress has Civ
en- him abundant opportunity to compare their
attraction with those of his harem For three
he is reported to have offered ESQ, 900 with the
option of cauceling the bargain aud returning
them to Ehgaud it, after fair trial, they dislike
Persia One of the three told ME she was IN
clued to accept it it the money could be settled
on herself, and if she could feel sure about get
closed. At Lady Granvie's party, at the
Foreign Office, on Tuesday night, it was an
American lady--or. as some say, two or three
fair Americans-who had the honor to attract
this noble savages regard. At one or two
dinners he has found himself with a lady on
each side of him, and this is practic which re
declares himself unable to understand They,
on the other hand, have been enlightened by
experience as to some customs which prevail
in Persia but bave hitherto been unknown In
England One lady on rising from the table
found her lap filled with morsels from the royal
plate, which, as she supposed, he had found
unpalatable and quietly disposed OF in this way
Another beheld sundry viauds from time to
,ime during dinner transferred from the Shah S
nlate to her own But to all these, as to most
1f the other stories, there is another side. The
charitable aud well-nformed explain that these
contributions we're meant as marks Of royal
favor, and were 10 the height OF good breeding,
since among Orientals it is the custom to be-
stow on a guest the choicest morsels from the
host 5 portion, and king always stands IN the
relation of host to everybody else.
How PLANTS Grow FROM SEEDS. .lu
every seed (says Prot Tyndall to the chiIdreD)
there is a thy plant, consisting OF root. stem
and two leaves, surrounded by dry, Starchy
matter You may see this tor yourselves II you
soak morning-gory seed 10 hot water. They
dry black hull grows soft, swells, and resenty
two little leaves appear. If you open the seed
carefully, you will find the tiny root and the
starchy matter soften ty the heat into a
for Little plants have to eat in order to grow
big, Just as children do the difference being
that plants have mouths all over them, and eat
all the time When you SOW your seed, tie
heat and moisture Of the earth soften the dly
starch into jelly, then into milky hquld
this the plant in the seed, root, leaves and all,
drinks up. So much TODD causes the leaves to
grow TOO big and their stem too long for the
seed to hold them so they burst the hull,
and keep on drinking and growing until they
push their way into the air. In the same man
ner, the root works its way into the ground.
BY the time all the liquid has been drunk,
another leaf has unfolded, and shoot has
brauched off from the root. So now you see
why the starch was in the seed. 1t was to
feed the plant until it was strong enough to OBJ
tain food for itself-the roots from the earth,
and the leaves from the suo and air. The rea.
SOD, too for its being hard, and unfit to eat
until softened in the ground, is that the plant
may be kept from trying to grow at the wrong
time-as when you store it away in the winter.
$50, this is the way, children concludes
the Professor, ''that the seed You now put in
the ground grows into big plant that bears
flowers in the summer, in which there are 9th
er seeds with plants in them for you to SOW
next year.