The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-27


ing covering ono Of the barrels and upset the
contents into the middle Of the platform. It
was heap OF lowers-dahlias. marigolds. wild
asters. golden rod. daisies. lady slippers. sun
flowers. Tho other barrels and the boxes and
baskets were opened and most OF their con-
tents turned out to swell the heap and to make
mass OF color and breath Of the unknown
odors Of the roadside and the fields tighten
and perfume the dingy squalor OF Paradise
Park.
A boy rolling hoop stopped slung the hoop
over his arm and stood watching. with grimed
bare legs far apart and brown bony chest
shining through torn calico shirt. The old
man lifted bunch OF the wild flowers and
threw it at the boy. 1t flashed through tho air
and struck him In the face. He caught 1t.
smelled 1t. then darted away. shouting. Flow
ers! Flowersv" at the top OF his voice.
The DRY was taken up. and soon In all those
dirty streets which wind narrowly toward Par
adise Park there was hurrying Of children.
| abandoning play or work. and shouting OF
"Flowers! roGers,!,". that seemed to passers-
" The he old man had two assistants besides the
| fat man in the dirty shirt who guarded the
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swiftly. legs stSckineed and legs striped and
! streaked with the mud OF the streets. All were
some reads sHs sA %t
| Of black or dark brown curls. some Of the
he'd soa1SS while
we're We're C clean faees"s few. Most faces wers
f EACH child chatted and laughed in the shriiest
4 shs s'e The later arrivals
Soon the little band stand was the centre of
such mob q st5ange little human beings as
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band stand. the assistants pushed down hands
sw fSr thr , With n' taces But the
crowd continued to swell. rose over the railing
up at ono gulp. The. fat man was pushed from
s ns h % 1e
lo But t tSlsp man with the gray beard marshsed
nssstants and the n narrow ati in the hand Of
the fat man slapped and smotc and stung
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form and the distribution Of the nowers Of
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the wave; having gathered d, new new force. rose
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the stout and more slowly moving mothers
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and fat and the nsSssny 81 6earns In
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free hand. shouting. looking first at tho mass
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bunchos Of lowers they had got.
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assistants ana scRt them down to ths mothers
tRhs tor 81 sii the huge Srsht some
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gray to Is a na gave a1wosa TO
tic eegor hand that stretched nearest. When
@wers had got well d9wn to ne sa the 70
and girls ewcpt upon the platform Some got
| big LUNCHES. some got few flowers. a few
sprays OF golden rod Or Wild astsr: others car
Rod away only tiny bit OF green or yellow or
| blue or purple,
But ior an hour or 40 dingy. gloomy Paradise
Park was gay. with color and sweet with
| chances OF countryside beauty. And for hours.
pNrhaps even TO- day. perhaps for seyeral days.
tho sprays or bunchos will smile from o
| ingcd rooms where lifo is always bare.
sas t%SP ths %s tSs sHIs: icy
both. 70 the people in and about Paradise Park
| seycnth-ioe water and Ice have been dlstrib-
MI Lyon says that Ice wSsGr and n2w
family TO support, yot finds time 10 distribute
loo watnr and flowers and to collect the money
TO buy them: Ho says g, he rv WOULD fladly re-,
OF tho Moderation Society. n Park row. This is
the thirteenth year of the existence OF tho so
i ciety, and In these thirteen years II has done
ali sorts Of curious charltles, not at all In tho
line OF the ordinary charities.