Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-27

cannot be companions to age. Those still hot and busy with their own ife-cares give
 but grudging or interested attention. Con
 temporaries dodder, or they shock him with
 unbecoming fippancy, or they are seif-a2- sorbed. Flowers alone always please al ways are grateful, always console. Their lovers have a common fervor undisturbed by jealousy. If-be the supposition pardoned they were good for nothing but to furnish
 topic for elderly admirers, they would stlH
 be gracious gifts of heaven; when SIT ROD ert WalpoIe was represented for vicious talk
 he excused himself on principle. The only subject in which every one of company can join, he said, was obscenity. If Sir Rob- ert and his guests had cared for flowers 1t had been better for them even in this world. The love of children crowns what that
 other passion has firmly established-we speak, of course, not of grandchildren, nor kindred, but of all little human creatures. And we do not all1de to benevolent impulses, for they may come at any age to one who does not greatly care to have his small clients at his elbow. It may be that contemplation of the unspeakable purity of flowers raises
 mans whole nature, gives him keener sense
 of beauty, and higher intelligence than the militant human reason. Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like lily; but 8 child's lovely face is as tender, as ethereal,
 as marvellous in the blending of it's tones, and soft yet clear outline. Each feature is 8
  The translucent eyes upturned, the small dewy mouth, the white.rose cheek lit up from within as is no flower that ever bloomed what in nature or in fairyland so answers
 to our yearning for the beauty that is not of earth? Younger men, as rule, do net feel this, though they see it. They remark 8
 pretty child and forthwith want to know, if | they do not ask, whether it has 8 grown-up
 sister. It may be that the repulsion of male
 animals for their young, which dogs and | cats exhibit strongly, is not yet extinct in
 man. The want of reason in 8 babe's con-
 duct and ideas stirs impatience. It demands to be amused, and forthwith goes to sleep.
 It cannot grasp very simple things, and re- | fuses to believe them, but it sees no difficulty | in the most monstrous fables, which is ab-
 surd. It Is not nearly so innocent as it looks, | and does acts knowingly cruel. Moreover, | chief and spoil the young mans things, bursting into tears when reproached and dis | turbing it's mother. A babe, in short, is the most unreasonable creature extant, and though brother, young father, love 1t, he | does not long for it's society. The grandslre | or the elderly uncle takes another point of | view-one, be 1t owned, in which the less agreeable features go out of sight. The | child is for him picture, work of art so exquisitely pleasing that it never wearies ] He is not distracted with speculation about | the elder sister. He no longer expects to
 find human beings angels at any time of life.
 He asks not whether the loving infantine
 ways are true gold it is enough that they
 are honest for the moment, and experience | hopes for no more. An inability to catch | simple truths, combined with an easy accep- l lance of great mysteries, is not peculiar to
 childhood As for reasou, the old man has
 had enough of it. And so, among the flow
 CTS, which are his children. and the children
 more beautiful than the flowers, he passes happily and content to the last stage of this eventful history.