Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-06-29

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Hor the Bismarck Tribune:
'sWhat The Iesyes sse % the forek,
Truth, usht and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
Have been hardened into wood.
Thst TO tho world are children;
Through them h feels the glow
OF br iShteF and SUMMER climate,
Than reaches the trunks below"
Do not think for an instant, dear
reader, from the above conmingling of
science and sentiment, that am about
to treat you to another chapter on
stree culture" having though tessly
erred before in attempting sesxuse Of
that subject, with only rusty reminl-
scence Of college lessons for basis, l
an now too wise to claim even .
woman's privilege for the "last word"
However, 1 may be permitted to give to
the discussion, . conclusion, more Dig
nified than the Introductory, and state
that since 50 many of our citizens had
turned their attention to house building
the object of my former article WAS to
attract public attention to the impor-
tant subject of home decoration, promi-
nent in which the culture of trees and
shrubbery stands pre>eminen!. -
Beauty In architecture costs no more
than ugliness, and upon the course now
taken By our homsnad1erss depends the
future symmetry Of the city. It re-
mains to be seen whether we shall bsve
q town composed Of angular rows of
stiff, ungaiDly' houses-enough to give
one q headache every time you look 1T
them-set on dead level with the bar.
rem street, or city, called beautiful,
filled with cosy, humble cottages, Of
picturesque forms and artistic designs,
each one having its own little garden
and bit of verdure fringed with trees
and Towering shrubs. These things sp-
peal strongly to the aesthetic sense, and
around the home where the wife and
babies are domiciled, they are iudiepen-
si6le. All women have taste, and IN in-
herent love of the beautiful, hence they
love flowers and verdure, pure air and
are unhappy if deprived of them. And
even the men, grubbiDg away oil day
on the business streets to obtain the
"root of all evil" are not insensible to
the charm of row of shade trees Is an
edging to the hot, dusty pavement.
Trees and shrubs are not expensive,
and are easily cultivated. Only be sure
to plant them with the roots doaonDard.
By and by I'll get around to the SUBJ
ject, which started out to discuss, but
1 want to say first that have recently,
under Dr.. Slaughter's direction, and
with the aid Of microscope, made
series of interesting experiments on
sections of the living tree, the result
being that have become an enthusiss-
tic convert to the Doctors theory of
transplanting. The microscope disclos.
es network Of tiny vessels extending
from one end to the other-just is the
veins and arteries Of animsls do, and
there is most wonderful resemblance,
between the free distribution and Cir
culation of the sap throughout the tree,
from the to7most lSaf let to the uttermost
eztremiy Of the root, and the circula-
ton of the blood throug ghout the ani-
NAL system. Save for the absence Of
the heart, or any organ in trees, per.
forming the same functions IS the heart
in the higher classes OF. animals, that is
by propelling the blood throughout the
system, and by its return again to the
heart completing the circulation-the
similitude is perfect-hence an effort to
prove the unlikelihood of any analogy
existing between the physiology Of .
tree and the circulatory system of the
the human frame, would have been q
attempt to prove the muta
bility of the cbangeless laws of nature.
Let US turn gain to Longfellow:
''Come to me, o, ye Children,
And Whisper in my ear
What the birds and the Winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere
This brings me at once TO the pith of
the subject; but here find to my aston
ishment that my article has written
itself out on a foreign topic. Honestly,
Mr. Editor, started out to speak for
the children on subject in which they
are all deeply interested, viz: "7he Ne~
SchooJ house.'' Sadly enough, have
been led away from my subject by the
poets evident appreciation Of what Dr:
Slaughter calls the pleasing science OF
It's too late to remedy 1t now, bat
With your. permission will take .1he z
School house, for my text and finish the
week.
LINDA W. SLAUGHFEE.
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