Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30
IT Is THE DAISY.
WHEELING GIRLS FAVOR THB PRETTY
MARGUERITE.
Legends About the Origin Of the National Flowers
The Lily Rose, Shamrock, Thiste-Beauhful
American Fa7Orihss-What
Topper Wants

months they discussed through the news
papers and among themselves, 'Is Mar
rage Failure?" and having concluded
that interesting topic they turned their
attention to the field of politics, and as
you know, it was an educational cam
paign," there WAS absolutely no limit to
the possibilities of controversy in the ques-
tions involved. When that was all over,
the public mind took rest. Now, some
one has started the wheel going again. He
said: France has her lily, England the
rose, Ireland the shamrock and Scotia the
thistle, the American people ought to have
a National Flower. What shall it it?'
All, what shall it be? With so many
beautiful flowers to choose from it was not
difficult to forsee what discussion would
follow, and what variety of taste or lack
of taste his been shown. Everything mas
been suggested from the big, radiant, ge
nial supfower to the shy and shrinking
violet. But how shall a choice be made
from so many fsvOrites?
THE LILY OF FRANCE.
According to legend, France came by the
lily as follows: In the reign of King Clo-
vis hermit one night saw wonderful
light streaming into his narrow cell. In
the midst of this light appeared an angel
bearing an szure shield upon which were
emclazOned three golden lilies. The angel
commanded the aged man TO carry the
shield to the pious Olothilde, who present.
ed it to her newly converted husband. He
was prompt 10 substitute it for his previ-
GUS device-three black tosds and there
after his armies were victorious.
ENeLAND's EMBLEM.
The rose probably became the national
emblem of England in the fifteenth cen
tuFy, with the closing OF the "War Of the
Roses, familiar to every school boy and
girl The house Of York wore the white
rose and he house of Lancaster the red
rose. The pretty tradition is that when
The war came to 6 close by the marriage of
Henry VII, Of Lancaster, TO Elizabeth of
York a rosebush IN Wiltshire monastery
AUm blhbA4Gu 4N4l III Will pCldAc LuAnkASN
red and white. To this day the rose pro-
duced by grating is called the York and
Lancaster rose.
The Irish shamrock is said to have been
adopted becaus, st. Patrick selected it in
order to explain the doctrine Of the Trini
ty, or three in one. Exactly what the
true shamrock is is net known Some
maintain that il is the wood sorrel, with
the sharp acid taste; others state that it is
the clover, and it is stated that the water
cress was termed shamrock by early wri
ters.
THE SCOTCH THISTLE.
Tradition gives different versions Of the
adoption of the Scotch thistle. One is that
on a certain occasion the Danish invaders
were sthslipg nOiselessly by night upon a
Scotch camp Suddenly o soldier planted
his bare foot upon a thistle. His cry of
pain aroused the scouts; they rallied aud
put the Danes to flight Another legend
is that Queen of Scotia, after hard war
victory, threw herself on the grass to rest
On that selfsame spot a thistle grew
That very moment she knew that the this
tie was there, and jumping to her feet she
wrsthfully plucked it up by the roots.
About to toss it away, she sudden within
led her to stick it in her casque, and from
that time it became associated with Scotch
victory.
DUB NATIONAL FLOWER.
But of America. Her grey-beayded her
mits never come out of the woods, and che
has no patron saint. She is 700 young for
tradition, and at any rate most too prsc
teal TO put faith in pretty legends The
communications on the subject of "Our
National Flower" to The SUNDAY REGIS !
TER indicate that with the Wheeling girls
the daisy is a rong favorite. Perhaps it
is because the Wheeling girls are daisies
themselves. Some of them refer to the
daisies as ''Msrguerites, which is quite
English One of the correspondents
quotes Chaucer's words:
"NIen Of reason well it Gale may,
The daiSie or else the eye OF day,
The empresse and the howre Of h0wres ALL"
A wicked brother of an amateur artist
aims to dispose Of the claims of the golden
rod He sends this clipping:
THAT so intelligent and prudent q
journal as the Cleveland Leader should adj
yocate the adoption Of the golden-rOd us
the American national flower is simply in
applicable The golden-rod is a weed that
has no claim to higher honor than thai of
being painted on preteutious panels by
amateur artists"
A bold, bad man writes in a nervous
hand and signs himself TOPPER" He
says lscOnically: 'FOr a national flower
R. is good enough for me
iTHE BIG SUN FLOWER.
The suuhOwer is the soft mark for some
OF the correspondents One says: "The
talk about the sunhower is nonsense. It's
name is Haunting lie. 1t does not al
ways turn its face to the sun as people
generally believe. 1t hasn't a single
American characteristic. 1t is loud and
coarse and very 'seedy'"
The dainty violet has many admirers,
but the chief objection is that it is not a
distiuctively Amsrican flower. Dat of the
40 varieties only Is are found in this
country. 1t is said that the English
violets trsnsplsnted on this side Of the
water lose their fragrance. But among
aesthetic people there is no doubling the
great popularity of the golden rod with lis
tall grace and reViying beauty. 1t is not
nearly so bad as it is often painted. The
clover blossom has its friends and so has
the arbutus, bat the American field daisy
is surely in the Iced.
Meanwhile the professional flower
growers Of the country have taken up the
discussion, aud the members of the Society
of American Florists, of which John
n. May, of Summit, n. j., is
president, is snxiously debating among
themselves the interesting question:
What shall be our national
flower" The society will hold its fifth
annual convention at Buffalo on the Goth,
Dist and 22d of August, and this question
is to receive serious attention and be de-
cided by ballot.
THE rosy freshness, and a velvety soft
ness Of the skin is invariably obtained by