, 1890-05-01
"RAND0M THOUGHTS
Little Sketches That viii Do
tor q Sermon.
THE FLOWERS OF SPRlNGTIME.
Thoughts About Books and Their
Companionship--A Pleasing
Picture.

Wilton for thc Sunday NrytEw.I
Again We are scanning catalogues
and planning gardens. Tho love of
/ gardening, dormant In every man
and woman and l suppose iuhor-
/ tied from our ilrt ancestors), wakes
/ up at this season Of the year. In
anticipation We taste fruit from our
own vines, and how luNurlantly all
OF our roses and flowers bloom.
! How many delightful hours We
have spent In these dream gardens
each year. Surely "hope springs
etcrnul." Afcr all IL our plans fail
aud modest bcd Of pauslcs tilIc4
the place of our magnificent garden,
the delight we have taken In plan
ming it all can never be quito lost.
-.
We are gathering flowers again.
How our little world las changed
since we gathered them u year agu.
I How many casprhauds that touched
ours then ate still now? We look
about half bewlldcrcd, missing ~
many bright eyes that viii never
| gladden. again NJ the first viole,s or
/ the dainty nncmouc. Yet tho
waIc-rohlus are opening out In this
new spring, thc laurcl Will he IN
bloom along all the crJck-, IA " nu
| change had come over thi~ old world.
such dainty, fpgiie things, SGT
/ more Interchangeable than anything
our hands can fashion.
u'cr ruins OF great works designed +,
/ last
\ lightly woven chain OF flowers Is cast.
How much Of Nilton's world was
doomed to pass,
And yet We lugcr on the dni-Icl grass
! And pluck ihU flowers lac uluckcd Tor
lyci4a,.
Again tho sprngt.mo crowns a waiting
I Nav love. 'tis YOU who stand
hand.
II ! had long been dead
And camo from sleep Of twilight cen.
turtles
Tho almond blossoms meath these
-. ycrnai shes
Would gree, me then as now, but not
your oyca
-
read Charles Dudley Warmers
"BacklOg Studies again tho other
/ day-Ouc Of Those cool days Whpn a
liro was 80 cumlortablc-aud Twas
able to APP rulaic thr book as never
before. II IS remarkable how you
read "a book sometimes aud ID makes
little liuprc,iou on you. Icrhups
all your friends are asserting thnt Il
Is "a delightful hoOL, which only
makes matters worse. Nou Etl
/ mthcr shmme-mccd over Your lack
OF appreciation, and unless YOU are
Ia remarkably honest person YOU
| don't Ike tu confess you found IL
/ rather stupid aud hntd loldinp.
/ AttcT while you take up your book
again under diNcrcut cirtuiu. .ltucrs.
ar IN another mood, OF purhuu- tiu.
consciously yuu have grown, oven
uN toe iirt attempt At any rate
how the book LAS chAugedl how
eagerly you absorb IL! Now thp
humorous points appeal to YOU. tho
puthu- touches yOB, aud wien YOU
have finished yuu realize Nith' dc.
iight thut you have entered a ue,y
Hcld, established 10 ucw fHcud-hip.
And think bloR lriyndshtus ura
Ike human ONES. Those thnf We
grow up 10 slowly aru tho onp4
that satisfy us bc-t, and limit ~,
learn tO iciN uu. Wei, I established
one nf the irloud-hips for sliaclS.
log Siudie-' th" other aay. sun.
po-o that 10 Wus the rurr0uudiuu,
that helped 10 ID,
NhrIcNcr open the book ngnin
am surc ! VIII see u rrpnt rl,,sh ire
place, a generous fire scuninp nm
SPARKS anJ flame Into the wido
mouth chimney, n cosy room, hathod
III Urnll"Nt with u huprV proup
about the hearth, aud t,ill woman.
~ woman Ound tlrps the Only Kind
OF - woman worth thinking on
quietly feeding the ilunr with resl.
nous pine rirk
FYcry on" Of ~ could huve lust
su'h "a fireplace, "a great rough nre-
place, W certainty why not? Think
now you would enjoy that flWi
iut we VIII not huvc one, not ono
Of Us. lf we can not have poIishcl
OAK luAntol and artistic tile set
hearth most ofus VIII not have "A
fireplace ut all
Ierhap5 some ofus might have "A
preIonsc form fireplace and I'LL lt
around with thluc-c fans aud pnr.
nsols Quite entertaining mn.mzincs
ana papers Tor housclSoepers dive
tiohoitlc directions for constructing
thrre sind Of iiroplnccs. Think OF
talllcring uuc's luIcs and runatcs
about some picture Of grinnIng CHI
nwc muudHgius.
OtllcE with more correct tn.le
WIN nave u limpiace, but snch "A
costly one that ID will make such u
noe IN .our p0chci-books that we
never lccl We cnn afford 10 fire IN IL
ohiN on state occasion, and then
nhly n iew dying or course
we would take nurp comfort with "a
palmer iircplnCo and moro generous
hgts, hut we are self-ncrihcmg
ptop'ei we don Npect much com.-
lort IN this world. We want to
make show 10 pretend wo are
MhNl we anu not, and which our
lflehds Know just ns well as we do.
ID. Il. AI4LES.