St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-25
FLORAL DELIGHT.
The Beauties ofNature Should Be
Developed and Enjoyed.

The Beauties ofNature Should Be
Developed and Enjoyed.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, April 16.-"I have
no time to fuss with such thingsn'
These words are often uttered in tones
of contempt or as if it were beneath the
dignity of any real womanly woman to
do so. Sometimes these words will be
uttered in weary tone, and the excuse
is household cares or the children take
up all spare time, and then we hear
men say: You'd better plant beans OF
potatoes, for they would be of some
good, and flowers amt" In fact. there
is no end to the objections that some
men and women will make when that
subject is preached. Let me ask these
DIRECTORS to flowers why the great Gre
ator made these beautiful plants
everywhere, all over the earth, on the
waters, down under the waters OF great
salt seas, on the rocks in the sea and the
rocks that lie upon the land? If you go
out on the sea beach you will find
plants that have been cast up from the
depths that are beautiful in cOlorlng,
and a microscope will reveal tiny
BIRDS AND BLOSSOMS.
all of the most exquisite formation, some
are so delicate that only micrOscOpical
examinations will reveal their finest
structure, in woods and field and fen,
everywhere He has placed objects OF
beauty, and with a most lavish hand
spread OH trees and rocks the most eX-
quisite covering of MOSES, and often
grass and flowers, mingled in compact
mass, and quite often great beds OF
f1nlvnrC yUhinh howe hnnn GROWING and
spreading for years. Pen or pencil
would fail in noting all these things
that you object to or treat with diSdain,
and yet shall contend with you-and
grant that beans and potatoes are essen
tial to our physical wants as we'll as many
other things that are essential to our life.
But then you say it's all nonsense and
waste of time and money! L am
glad that all men and women have not
thought so in times past and present
very grateful that He gave some of His
creatures of human form eyes to see and
souls to comprehend the power to gather
up and in such gift. Years ago dis
tant relative wrote to me: "From
banker to a beggar, an almost pennileSs
wanderer. | am the
HAPPIEST MAN
in California. Not that l found the
specimens OF gold L send you, OF that |
am rich again, but that have found
some new flowers. Hungry am. but
I'll camp here and wait and dig gold
while [ watch the habits of these new
beauties" All the world Of students
were happier because few new
varieties of flowers had been found
in that land of wonders, as
California is so often called, and SO an
other correspondent found new fern,
and that was much money in her pocket
book, although she considered the fern
of greater value than money offered for
it, because it was a new plant and her
great love of all plant life. So God has
given to some people the desire to hunt
for the unknown, and to all the power
to appreciate the great gifts of His
workmanship in identifying the earth
for humanity, and yet we reject His gifts
to us instead of using them to adorn our
homes and the grounds surrounding
them. Gather up the flowers you find
on your lands and give them place
near your house; if they die, gather
more and set out, for some day the flow
ers in field and woodland will become
extinct and your flowers will be valua-
BILE and command good prices.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL