The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-10
Weeds.

Of them. The daisy, cultivated with
care in hot houses, so that ladies
may wear them during the winter
season, are called white weed by
farmers in Pennsylvania. They
grow in the meadows and where the
farmer wants to cut hay, and in the
pasture where the farmer wants his
COWS to eat grass. In some parts Of
Europe the poppies are SO common
in the wheat fields that they are re-
garded and treated as weeds. What
are they but flowers out of place.
Here we cultivate them in our gar
dens Then while we have here
troublesome weed-the mulleiu-
familiar to all by its stiff, straight
stalk, its dusty silver leaves, and
its yellow blossoms, rising tier on
tier, like husked ear of corn, done
in yellow petals, in England it is
nicely planted and tended in beds,
with other flowers-and goes by the
refined name of the American Vel
vet Plant" So we see that the weed
of our country may be the cherish
ed flower of another, and the weed
OF another country may be the
flower of our own. While the plant
is rare, has attractions, and grows
only where it is planted, it is a
flower. When it asserts itself,
, pushes itself where it is not wanted,
makes itself a damage and a nui-
sance, then it becomes a weed. In
, just the same way dirt has been
called "matter out of place" A
queer kind of definition, yet you
, cannot really find better, either
for weed or for dirt
WEEDS IN CHARACTER.
An odd place to find them, yet
they are there. That kind of sym
pathy which would make a villain
l comfortable and save him from
: punishment, forgetting the crime he
has committed and the desolation
, he has brought upon others, is no
/ true flower. 1t is a noxious weed
| and should be rooted up. Sym
l pathy, pity and mercy should be
, cultivated, but in the right place,
and put upon suitable objects. On
a hot summer day it would be folly
to pile blankets and overcoats upon
e one. You would say it was mis-
! taken kindness. Just so sympathy
/, and pity is often a weed
S Agreeing with one saying "Yes,"
: to everything any person says, for
the sake Of being agreeable and
a good natured, is a weed. If one is
4 wrong we should either speak out,
4 or if it is not our place to do so, we
J. should keep silent. Being any ones
a echo, for the sake of agreeing, is n
weed. 1t is peace out of peace, and
is therefore war upon truth and
right. 1t is not necessary for you
= to sneeze everytime your neighbor
: takes snuff. If you do not believe
e in snuf-taking, cough, do anything,
J, but don't sneeze.
Obstinacy, surliness, contrariness,
!, no one ever mistakes for flowers
they are always out of place-and
e are therefore nothing but weeds.
e Smartness is often a weed. It
thrusts itself where it does not be-
long and is not wanted. It is like
It the thistle of old that wanted to be
It king, because thinking itself big as
cedar and oak. Real brightness to
see we like, quickness to learn is a
power-but that conceit of smart
e ness is as bad as purslane. 1t
+ sprouts over flowing-beds with its
d thick pulpy leaves, it crawls into
a vegetable beds with its thick useless
a steams, gardeners hoe it up and
h feed it to the pigs.
= Wen talk about flowers another
g time, but to let them grow we must
S keep the weeds down.
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- ANANXIoUs HoUR-He had been
:, out for a days fishing, and as he
! proudly displayed the contents of
! ! his basket to his wife, she exclaimed.
= "Oh John arnt they beauties
But I've been so anxious for the
past hour, dear !"
i Foolish little one p said John,
> caressingly; "why, what could have
happened to me?n
. "Oh, l didn't worry about you
= love it grew so late 1 was afraid that
- before you got back to town the fish
- markets would all be closed.
l. TIE NATIONAL GAME YOUNG
re Man (to dealer in sporting goods
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