The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-10
Why are Artificial Flowers so UnwOr.
thy an Ornament for the Head7

For two reasons. One Is, because
when the real thing is to be had, only
ignorance and absolute tastelessnsssean
be content with bad copy of it. And
another is, because the beauty of real
flowers consists more in their texture
and their color than even their form. In
artificial flowers we often come near
enough to the general form, but the
coloT-in itself matehless, and made
more wondrous by the refraction sf light
on myriads of little cells and breathing
pores, giving sometimes the appearance
of sparkling-is never right-neaTest in
wax-but the texture is always bad.
The milliners' boquet, though far better
in manufacture than that of 20 years
ago, is often full of mistakes. A milii-
Der will mix corn-botties and eowsiips,
the roses of June with the primrose Of
April, and she almost always adorns
flower with the wrong leaves. Now the
leaves OF a flower arc as much a part of
the flower as the hand or the hair is an
inseparable part Of a person. People
have condemned Sir Thomas Lawrence
for occasionally substituting, in his
portraits, hands or feet more elegant
than those OF his sitters. Well, 20 strip
a flower Of its natural leaves is worse
than what Sir Thomas Lawrence did.
Il is as bad as shaving the black
hair from a woman 70 make room for q
yellow wigl A lady once said to me, ''I
met a man, to-day, whose appearance
struck me SO much that for SONS time
could not take my attention of him.
There was something about him that
looked remarkably wrong and incongru-
Gus. At last a light broke upon me
This man possessed that peculiar com
plexion that belongs emily TO red hair
but his red hair he had dyed as black as
night and the impossible combination
was quite lndicrous. That Is just what
the miiiiner does when she thinks that
fern-leaves " look lighter fora rose than
/ its own broad, substantial sprays, or
the Ieayes Of q water-lily "more hand
some for sBos-drops. And We may
always notice, in a wreath Of artificial
flowers, however good, that the leaves
are never near tho original in color, even
when tie blossom is; the whole thing Is
like picture BY a bad artist, Who has
taken pains with she face. but Left the
hands dead-ool0red, out OF drawing, and
seamped." And in addition, the
sprays are freqaently made 70 bend &C
cording 10 cocl5ney taste, as they never
could possibly bend in nature Stalks
that are suocsslent and brittle. ike the
dafodn or geraniurn, msy be seen ele-
eantiy twisted, g or ending in a spiral.
screwed over pencii-end by tbs intelli-
gent shopEonaan.--iike . sendrili We
have ourselves bought daisies and priHa-
roses with tendrils springing ont Of
them An after .bese mntilatio and
vagaries Of the ''igncble grotesque,
ladies think real flowers less handsoIne
and Less stately than their wretched
muslin eounterparss OF course, the
excuse VII Be thatsin IN q hot room real
flowers tumble - pieces. The answer
is-Noi il you choose the right ones
cameilias, rose-buds. seEineas, orchids
and many thick and sueeulent kinds Of
ereen-hsase flowers, viii last out day
md night, sometimes several especially
when jndieiousIy wired But even II :
J leaf or petal fall. half q real hoNer il
I better than a whole sham. .-.St
PaaFs Jkaeass1se.