Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-27

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most any part of the country, and one In
| which any energetic, plant-loving woman
might meet with . gratifying amount of
success And 1t 10 possible that there will
| yet be go genuine an interest In hortieul-
| ture aud Horticulture that girls will insist
upon being thoroughly instructed in these
| fascinating branches of science, and that
they will be adopted ss regular studies of
q college course. They already are in Eug-
land, where many young women are prepar-
ing for business lite as growers of fruit and
| flowers and as market gardeners. They are
also studying landscape gardening, work
which appeals to their artistic taste and
fertility Of invention, but upon which very
few have yet ventured. One woman, how
fession, has won for herself Q very high
place, doing magnificent work upon public
grounds and private estates. She Ii also q
competent surveyor. II is largely through
her influence that women have been given
the opportunity for fitting themselves to
be market and nursery gardeners, or retail
growers for private custom, with special
advantages for studying the care Of green
house and exotic plants.
THE LAST LEAF.
"our Yankee Car, onr Autocrat
OF all the happy realms of wit,T
as Thomas Bailey Aldrich calls him, has
very graceful ways OF saying pleasant
things. Occasionally his wit seems slight
ly acidulated and peppsry, as when he
described the popular function of "6ve
o'clock tea as, "Giggls. gabble, gobble and
git," but such exceptions are rare, and he
is habitually, to use four more Gs, gener-
ours, gentle, genial and gracious. One of
the latest illustrations of these character
istics is shown in his letter to some school
children who wrote to him, expressing their
opinion of "The Last Leaf" which they
had been studying. In reply DR.. Holmes
wrote:
81 am glad to be told that I have writ
ten what has instructed and gratiHed you
The poem called The Last Leaf was writ
ten sixty three years ego, before most of
your fathers, and some of your grand
fathers, were born. am almost the last
leaf Of myself now, but am glad to be re-
minded that the tree of life is foil of
young leaf bude, which will spread in the
sunshine of the twentieth century, when
the bough to which am still ciinging is
shorn of its last years latest Leaf"
HORSES AND MEN.
1t is stated that "Blsck Beauty" the
s'Uncle Toms Cabin of the horse" is to
be translated into the Spanish language.
There is also to be modern Greek edi-
ton.
Evidently there is need of another
American edition. Widely as the book
has been circulated and read, it remains to
be read by most men aud boys who have
the charge of horses, if 1t is allowable to
Judge by what may be seen upon bust
ness street at any hour in the day. Such
exhibitions of impatienoe, ill-temper and
iguora- ce on the part of the men
such evidences of nervousness and
suffering on the part of the animals-is
enough to make the sympathetic sick at
heart and the missnthrope grow more
bitter. Though the Humane Societies of
America and England have circulated
thousands of volumes of Miss SewelPs little
book, and although its lessons of humanity
have been taken to heart by many who
were more careless than cruel, hundreds of
people are cruelty careless, and no printed
or spoken words are going to reform them.
It has been stated that thousand horses
are spoiled and made -unssfe by cruel and
stupid drivers, for every one that Ia nat
urslly vicious. If this is true, and fit is
also true that many more lives are lost in
accidents brought about by frightened or
vicious horses, than in railroad accidents.
then it evident that the sins of the brutal
provoke rstribution, which, unfortunate
1y, falls quite as often upon the innocent
as upon the guilty.
If young women had the opportunity to
judge of mems characters by the way they
treat their horses, or any other animal in
their charge, there would be fewer mar
riages than there are now, and the mar
risgss that were made would be happier
| ones These directions for character study
| are not laid down in "Black Beauty" but
| ara ruifa reltahla pevarfhelesa
1. Beware of the man whose horse wincss
as he approachesit. His wife and children
will often feel that same nervous tremor
creep over them at his home coming.
2. Beware of the man who, when his
horse stands lpon three feet and holds up
a fourth tortured member to relieve Its
pain, takes no note of this sign of suffer
ing. His wifes weariness, his children's
little etubbed toes, will elicit no express
sions of sympathy from him, nor will their
shabby and i'll fitting shoes annoy him as
long as the feet within go swiftly upon his
| errands.
g. Beware of the man who "shows off"
when he has the reins in his hands. He
urges a spirited creature forward, then
checks 1t to show his power. He exasper-
ates it at last, and there is battle in which
he, unluekily, comes off oonqueror. Then
he puts on that monarch of all-1-survey air
aud looks about for admiration and sp-
plsuse. This is the moment In which he
ought to be killed, for he has it in him to
goad and worry human beings for the mere
pleasure of subduing them.
T. Beware of the man who vents his i'm
patience and irritability upon the inno-
cent, faithfully working horse. He will
be civil and patient with the men who an
noy him, because business interests force
him to do SO, and he will "taks it out of
the horse afterwsrd. He will not take 1t
all out of him, either, but brings enough
i'll temper home to make all the family
wretchsd. Beware of him, but he is not,
after all, the worst of these horrible sx-
amplss, though decidedly Objectionable as
husband. HILARY.