New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-19
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
.u,s1un ou rIowERs AND STONES.

- .s,,xcro~ MONUMENT AND TIKI oBELisN.
At street-cOrner. yesterday i"V 80
mined aMagnolias penny apiece nv .uo 49,"
,noment an aromatic smell came up from ,no ''U'
xrall thrilling through me ike the oi'a'" " 10y
SS =. ,hev have lain in my arms. exhsiing purity
a,d the strength of life. Bless thee, niue one
.red awhere did'st thou get them J. III 'no
s.onn answered the youngster, laying back tne
,ne~ev. IL can't charge you, Johnny. IL wouiu w
like taking il from the gardener III.
.Tate II hub" said l. that may appreoi"'o
the magnolia rs when ] was young anu iouo W. ~
nav sweetheart at my side, and as we eros'o" w
brook flowing oct Of the swamp, mnshy QUIZ 'io
,,ron ne and we looked into each others ele' anu
az that instant like the children we 'houBn'
.voted ns in the nnptials that never were 10 oo'
little lad and his sister broke into the swamp anu
cried .Magnolias for a penny iald my po'"'',
within those little palms, my boy. az DO nov" anu
,aLn tho magnolia again TO my old, parched lips
psortifnl lily Of the trees, breath of the Indian
maiden that is gone flower of the union, giving III
,ba North the Southern scnsuOusness and IN inc
soutb the Northern grace and wilderness Tree OF our
,oo,ber Eve so slender in her form ana with INC
bridal blossoms in her hair though banisheo iro'n
tbe garden 10 the wild swamp where her ieet 'io
among the water snakes but IN her air the aao'S''
ointmentl Thy leaves are ike the olives green
above the tea plants blue beneath; they ghlloi Wv
and make gray twnklings as they turn III inc eh''u
woods and carry holy superstition TO the ih'ruuci
heart as il he near some pertu'ned ai'"i. ""I'
n vestal ministered offering yet to heavens baoe
a.. or;on,al fronkincense and myrTh. The little
ncrmher of male green with brownish hairs upon IT,
standing like a baby pineapple upon a silver stem
vithiR the ivory petals of the Hover, seems 70 pe
The vase of everlasting life brought down ny woman
in her flight saying in the tempters DER 1ai'hi"'
words; "Tbou shalt not surely de" No wh'e the
SWAMP is musical and the deathly chill around IL
full of muscadne, scent the trail OF par"uise'
though the serpent broughtit from the ho"crs DC
crushed beneath his escaping. put the magnolia
to nv nose aud took it home to Maryantha'
4Uaw said she. something in the style Of Henri
:i,ouei Lilies of the Bourbon johnny! All the
stvlc now fer the revival wall paper
Female said l. sternly, " 90 on with your novel,
and don't Won take this genuine American magnOna
for ANYTHING imported, engra Sed etched soused' or
in any other manner bclittled by your empty
fashions, 1t don't grow in Europe worth cent.
lis delicate and cannot stand European smells. It's
pocahontas before she married the Englishman'
after which she never was Pocahontas.
i. Bless his hoartw said Maryantha, often as
have seen him drunk, never saw him out OF temper
before
4Tbis flower said J. " came straight from Asia to
America by way of the Pacific. brought over from
the Gardens of Shem. Japhet never cultivated 1t.
Peter Magnol the good gardener OF Marseiies' IN
France. gave it his love and worship and the world
gave il his name The beaver which was the most
intelligent animal in the world before the Yankee
came used TO love the magnolia so that the Indians
ret their traps near its roots, and that refined gal
liant coming along with his nostrls elevated
thinking there must he a lady somewhere waiting
for him. with her hair dressed in bergamot, ran ms
feet in the trap and Mrs. Beaver mourned his loss
"Seryed him right~ exclaimed my belle sGur, - ior
having the conceit to think all the camphor in the
atmosphere was q personal compliment 10 him, =
on which that pupil of decoration sneaked away
the magnolia. and with its scent departed my
revery.
A TR,nrrSr reader writes me to give him some in
formation abont Brillat Savsrin, who was IN Ne"-
York early in Louis NapoleOns reign This Is
mistake Brat died in 1926, at the age oil
seventy-one. He had been in France for thity
wears preceding his death Exiled in Robesp'erreS
time like thousands of FTenchmen whose iilustrlous
descent is forgotten in their American posteriy ana
their very names misspelled, Brliiat-saVarlh was
French teacher ard leader Of orchestra in
theatre here, during WashngtOn's administration
For some time he resided with appreciativc friends
Mt Hartford Conn. lie was very tall man, and
being A Judge after his return. was dubbed " the
arnn-maior of the bench" One of the most sensible
of the French en,gres to America he was also
writer of whom Balzac said that he had no equal IN
throwing his French expressions into such vigorous
rclief Describing an oak trees site IN the country,
he said: observing the effects OF time, both pro
dnctvc and destructive, and amused myself by fol-
lowing tho different periods III the life OF an OAK
from the moment il breaks through the mould with
two little leaves, until all that remains OF IT is
long black trace the dust of its heart" His book,
i.I 4. tfoo f,l.ft of 'Ira
accidental Gastronomy" though generally known
az PhvsioLoqe du Govt is full Of American sugges-
tions. showing that the New World is 10 be the
blest abode of good-vers lie predicted the peace
full reign of the Turkey the King of the table say
ing il was the most beautiful gift which the New
World had made 10 the Old. So seemed TO think
Franklin. who had everything but aesthetic fine
pess and who wrote 10 his daughter that hc had
mistaken the eagle on the badge Of the Cincinnati
Society for q turkey. Now wish it had been the
turkey' said Franklin. as unclean IN its nest,
thief to the industrious shhawk and useless on the
table, Savarin was political economist, too, one
of those Frenchmen who make us think France
should never have had anything TO do with war,
but only with social and scientific investigations
Here let me say to my INQUIRER that the late Henry
r. Tuckernan compiled q book on foreign travellers
In the United States-One OF the very best books in
print to illustrate with portraits on the inlaying
plan, collecting the pictures of Savarn. Brissot De
Casparin and other writers upon us, of whom tho
worst in perception and breeding have been from
the British Islands, and the French and Scandina-
Wan the best.
BossLEss' CITY.
The American capital. is the only city, probably.
we ,ossess, without any boss" whatever. I" 1t will
be a sorry day for u.s." said Mr.. George Adams, OF
Washington, wher we have any other kind OF
government that we now havc-a commission APP
poined by the President on which is one engineer