Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-26

too generous to say some things he
might have said-that it is very easy
for woman also to be q foreigner and
leave home-building to servants. He
only said: "There are great many
houses about, but there are not so many
homes Home first and very largely
first, should be our law; and after homo
society. Home allows OF individual de-
velopment better than any other posi-
BILE association"
II was under the linden trees that we
were sitting on knoll overlooking the
gardens of berries and flowers. A robin
was sitting on her eggs, just over our
heads, listening.
But, you will OBSERVE" John began
again, shat trees and plants after all,
are not SO terribly tied down to one
spot Nearly all of them have some
method of locomotion. Notice the way
those Strawberries run about-only they
never let go of home, and the home life
runs out through all the children. |
believe, il nothing hindered, straw
berry could travel across a continent.
Some of the trees, and tho raspberries,
and blackberries, and roses, and lilacs,
travel by suckers. But the home in
stinct is strong there also; they do not
go off from their own kin to join some
thing else. What splendid family
groups those plums make, If not,inter-
fered with? But all plants and trees
have at least two ways of travelling
one by roots and the other by fruit and
seed The most wonderful work Is
done by seeds. believe no naturalist
has been able to solve the riddle of the
sudden appearance of millions of plants
Of some weed or flower where none ex-
listed before. 1t is at least a great achieve
ment for plant to travel so expeditions
ly, and in such caravans. Dandelions
and daisies break out like influenza A
clover meadow turns yellow or white in
single season. You need not wonder
that am willing TO be quite like a tree
in steadfastness 1t is not q stupid life
at all Science tells us that animal and
vegetable life was once all one; and
after many ages of common functioning
our sort of life rooted down and the
other bowled off free and unconfned.
| There is very much to say of the charms
| Of living after either manner. But
there is such thing as an extreme veg
etable immobility, and such thing,
also, as an extreme animal instability.
! like best the happy mean; and prefer,
as said, decidedly to be a quiet, be-
nefcent, Industrious tree to being an
everlastingly rotating, excited, human
animal, without roots or character Lool
at that elm there on the front lawn
How superb! How beautiful How true
to purposol How happy, ono may say
How individualizedl 1t has fine in
stincts. 1t makes its own music. Il
has its own loom. 1t owns M
end Of machinery. It inheriti
the work Of ages past as much as we do
1t is unvexed by the winds of theology
1t does not belong to the Browning
Club. 1t is never troubled with in
somnia nor any form of nervousness
Then, tree gets deal of very pleasan
association. The children love an ole
apple tree as they love dog env.
the good times that leaning apple tire,
has had-boys in the limbs, and bird
singing, and-well, my dear, believ,
that apple tree saw us when we wer,
younger, and had our poem all unwrit
ten and our song unsung"
| We have not joined the club yet
John is up in the morning with tn,
birds, and tho bees, and the sun; ant
the nestlings are up with him. "If yol
will have morning club or two," h,
says, 81 will join. The Robins Club
have joined, and enjoy it immensely.
But at night he insists on retiremen
and that tho world shall let him alone
/ am sure that American life will b.
moro wholesome when we are more in
innate with the trees, and, like them
are more deliberate, cool, steadfast ant
capable of rest.-Mary E. Spencer. IL
St Louis Globe-Democrat