Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-06
HOMerS.

Give the wife and ''the girls" chance
to cultivate flowers. They are Just as
natural to womankind as breath; as
much longed for as dress. Don't be
niggardly abouta nice little spot for them
to grow q trifie of labor to dig up and
prepare the soil, and few dimes for seeds
and bulbs and roots. You might as well
deprive the sex of sunshine. They want
the buds and blossoms to twine in theiI
hair and relieve the simplicity of garni
ture about the throat. There is a subtle
language in them they understand and
appreciate far better than man; they
speak through the eye and the senses
directly to the heart, and the influence
is always for good.
Don't foolishly think because you
have "put in" a few potatoes and peas
and onions that you have made garden
to satisfy the longings of womankind. II
is not SO. To them the beautiful is fully
as much as the useful. They require
and you admire flowers upon their bon
nets, and why should they be robbed
of the more lovely natural ones, a wise
Creator has placed within reach? A
struggling rose bush or lilac or SNOWFALL
does not make flower garden-not by
any means. There are hundreds of
things that can be gathered at merely
nominal cost, and "a thing of beauty is q
joy forever" Don't "pish" and "pshaw"
when asked to do the hard manual
labor of preparation. Give the wife and
the girls a chance. A fragrant bouquei
upon the table will add much to the
enjoyment of eating.
A learned bishop once said in om
hearing, that "he believed birds enioyed
the season of flowers better than any
other; that even the cattle reyeled in
their beauty and perfume and thrived
better for being among them; that they
actually enjoyed them; that all of Gods
creatures appreciated lin a measure at
least) His bOuntiful gifts of bud and
blossoms" and any one who has given
thought to the subject will not be in
clined to smile at the theory. Watch
the birds when the cherry trees are in
their glory of white; watch the cattle
when the fields are brilliant with clover
bloom, and see how much they reveal
comfort and sweet satisfaction. And if
so with the lower order of creation how
much greater with the higher.
1t is not necessary that one should
have high sounding names upon the end
Of their tongue. The Morning Glory"
and Cypress" will run up over your
windows and give shade and beauty
Just as much as if called COIuOlrlLltlS
or ImpOned; the "Josepl's Coat" be rs
snowy In its striking foliage of red aIa
yellow and green as if called Amaraliths
IricOt0r -Four O'clocksn as if reehriste.
ed "M0ruel of Peru" and the good old
fashioned love in a Mist" and 3HBleed-
ing Heart" as if named only as "Ni0elLa
Dielytrd Spectdbitis. Of course the more
knowledge one possesses the better, but
plants will grow Just the same without
it if given proper food and care, and "the
girls" can have blooming garden with
out being crammed with Lexicon.
Give them chance; let them have
grounds and seeds. The roses they cul-
tivate will reblOom IN their cheeks and
your home be brighter and more happy
for the brilliant hues and odors flung
from the howery censers. Don't consider
pork and potatoes the all of life. Tie
beautiful has claims upon you as wei
as the gross, and the more you cultivate
it the more you will be lifted above
being "brother of the worm" Give
womanhOod a chance. Let her plant,
SOW, decorate, and adorn your grounds
in summer, and when winter rules with
an iron hand see that she has large
and sunny window; let her..make gar
den there, and with the flavor of the
tropics laugh at ice and snow. A few ferns
oxais and maurandla and saxifraga
transdescantia Wandering Jew) and Ivys
Tin sorts) and Madeira vines will do this
without elaborate expense. Anyhow
give the wife and ''the girls" all the
opportunity they wish to raise flowers,
and the reward will be health and
happiness and floral beauty that viii
thousand times repay the trouble and
the cost.